Lessons Learned:Responding to the Needs of All Students

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Kurtis HewsonFaculty AssociateUniversity of Lethbridge

Lorna AdrianSchool Improvement Facilitator

Livingstone Range School Division

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Essential Questions• What assumptions about a school’s

literacy culture need to be confronted before moving forward?

• What lessons learned can assist in the strategic planning when establishing a collaborative response model?

Leadership Tools

Confronting your School’s Culture

Essential Cultural Shifts – Change Index

1 – minor shift (already there)4 – major shift (long way to go)

Review seven shifts

Opportunity to reflect, utilizing the change index

Share and discuss following all seven

Leadership ToolsEssential Cultural Shifts Analysis Key Elements of Research-Based

Interventions

Essential Cultural Shifts

Support for students is reactive, as

problems arise

Support for students is proactive upon entry (school

or grade progression) Leadership ToolsReflection on School-

Wide Student Transitions

Essential Cultural Shifts Focus on overall

school performance

Focus on individual student performance

Essential Cultural Shifts

Embedded collaboration informal and

focused on events and activities

Formalized embedded collaboration focused on

student learning and progress

Essential Cultural Shifts

Assessments primarily

summative with limited impact on

learning

Ongoing formative assessment system that

drives instruction and programming

Essential Cultural Shifts

Student progress and programming

is the sole responsibility of the

teacher

Student progress and programming is the responsibility

of a collaborative team

Essential Cultural Shifts At-risk students

pulled out of core instruction

At-risk students receive interventions that are both inclusive during core instruction and additional time and

instruction

Essential Cultural Shifts

Interventions for struggling students are dependent on

the individual teacher

Interventions for struggling students are school-wide and

systematic

Share and DiscussOne minor shift for your school

One major shift for your school

Lessons Learned

• Related to change theory

• Observed in our experience and in discussion with other schools

• Handout – notes and reflect

Lessons Learned

Loose/Tight LeadershipDefined by DuFour

Create the banks of the river but let the water flow – McTighe

Leadership ToolsWhat Principals Need to

Know About Reading Instruction

Lessons Learned

Ready…Fire…AimBehaviours then beliefs

We will adjust and refine – perfection not required

Get started!

Lessons Learned

Dilemmas Not ProblemsRobert Evans – 7 Secrets of the Savvy

School Leader

Car vs. teenager

Realization is key

Lessons Learned

Critical MassDon’t water the rocks (Whitaker)

Recognize, cultivate and honour enthusiasm

Find the champions

Lessons Learned

Principal InvolvementModel and support what is most important

– work elbow to elbow

Supervise teams, not teachers

Lessons Learned

Time To Let People Arrive

Focus on process not product

Top down/bottom up

Lessons Learned

Synthesize TheoryFit your school’s context

Allow teams to be well-read

Informed risk-taking

Lessons Learned

Implementation Dip is Real

Explicit discussion

Awareness to overcome, not succumb

Leadership ToolsThe Implementation Dip

Lessons Learned

Pilot EverythingStart with the champions

Work out the kinks

Consider a target group

Questions/Comments

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