Instructional Leadership Team (ILT)

• Meaningful learning involves emotion and motivation.

• Meaningful learning takes patience and time.

• Brain systems are actively engaged in narratives about meaning.

• Meaningful learning can be experienced and demonstrated by all.

• Brain development is impacted by the environmental setting.

Assessment How can I use assessment in my UBD planner to enhance student learning?

Collaboration How can I use collaboration in my UBD planner to enhance student learning?

Engagement How can I use engagement …?

Play and Exploration How can I use play and exploration…?

Purpose and Authenticity How can I use purpose and authenticity … ?

Technology How can I use technology … ?

Some past workshops and sessions:

• Secret Path: Using a current event to develop a novel study that incorporates Aboriginal content and Aboriginal Ways.

• Play, Learn, Snack & Chat: After school Kindergarten to grade 3 teachers (literacy, math, play, technology)

• Play Based Learning workshops: all K/1 teachers

• Exploration Café: grades 4-9 on Play and Exploration Pathway

• Connect & Collaborate Café for new or new-to-position teachers

• Daily Three Café

• Joy of Literacy

As a team we support classroom teachers with tools, strategies and resources for deep, hands-on, engaging learning for their students:

• To help with implementing the new curriculum

• To help lesson plan using student-centered methodologies

• To help with inquiry based learning

• To network among teachers and schools to bring teams together

• To help implement new ways for teacher assessment, student-self assessment and reflective practice

• To collect and archive math and science activities, labs, and projects for district-wide articulation

• To examine the scope and sequence of content and competencies in course pathways for easier student transition between grades and schools

• Facilitate workshops for math and science teachers on topics of interest

• Facilitate observing each other in classes, co-planning, co-teaching and co-assessing among teachers

• Facilitate planning for Project Based Learning through Universal Backward Design

• Ross Greene Collaborative Problem Solving (CPS teaches kids to solve problems collaboratively and proactively)

• Observations/Discussions

• Observe the student and classroom design, meet with teachers to discuss concerns and possible solutions.

Collaborative Learning Rounds is an opportunity for teachers to work together to improve instruction and deepen student learning. It is conducted mainly by, for and with your teacher team or school team as a reflective, inquiring and learning process. The purpose is to improve student learning and instruction through a classroom based approach to observe and analyze student learning.

Rounds Can Be:

• A team of teachers with a common problem of practice (challenge, inquiry, …)

• A majority of teachers at a school with a common problem of practice

• A focus around the school growth plan and goals

• Focus on one particular area

• Focus around inquiry

• Multiple roles/options for your participation

• Co-Planned Team Project/Problem

• Work with your teacher team to co-plan a project or lesson with an ILT member

• Work through your lesson or project as planned

• Reflect on what went well and what are the next steps for student success in learning

• As a teaching team develop an area for further inquiry (problem of practice) based on previous conversation

• With your team and a rounds facilitator observe each other’s classrooms for data to support the next level of work