21st Century Learners and Leaders

The Growth Mindset

Selecting the "right drivers" to make change happen. Regarding errors as opportunities for growth is what successful leaders do.

Leadership Qualities

Lifelong learner, personal persistence, resilient, builders of social capital

Innovative Pedagogy

developing students critical literacy through innovative pedagogy

Theory of Action

1) Capacity Building Focused on Results 2) Learning in Context 3) Professional Learning Communities 4) Lateral Capacity Building 5) De-privatization Precision 6) System Identity 7) Transparency

Change

While exploring the fear of change: get the fear out in the open, create and rovide non-risk atmospheres and work through the new learning environment in small doses. Completing this process- see the new possibilities for success and be willing to take more risks.

Next Steps

Good leadership examples need to be captured and shared, at all three levels of leadership: school, district, and ministry levels

Teamness

Social Capital: mentorship between experienced and novice teachers. For large-scale cultural change, leaders need to support, facilitate and maintain collaborative relationships

Transparency

To uncover what is positively impacting students: monitor transparency of practice and results

The Digital Dimension

Teachers and students are required to engage as innovative co-learners.

Principalship

Principals play a critical role in creating successful schools- ensure that the quality of teaching and learning opportunities are being supported in the school, less focus on the politics of the school system.

Trust

The single largest condition for success in education- fostered through behaviours.