Thunder Bay
SGDSB
Build Structures and provide resources that foster ownership of learning
Know goals and visions for staff
Knowing the history of staff and students is key
Shift towards student centered environment
Fostering Agency
Develop Teacher Content Knowledge
Formative Assessment is Essential to drive instruction
Main topic
Thinking about how we honour our own learning journey as we collaborate with a group.
Northwest Catholic DSB
Facilitating Math Professional Learning was exceptional, introduction to math technology resources, cluster of information rather than grade-level/development approaches that we included.
Coterminous adolescent literacy data shared collaboratively between boards - feeder schools will receive data for the first time. This improves teacher agency and board collaboration and builds regional capacity.
Teacher agency - resources, strategies, and new learning to share with board teams from the SAO role.
Agency involves not only new professional knowledge but demonstration of change in practice for teachers.
Consider coherence and alignment when facilitating this professional knowledge within our professional learning plans
Main topic
SNCDSB
It is all about creating relationships and a culture of learning.
RRDSB Embrace change. Reinforce the importance of change.
Literacy
Brininging Inquiry into Secondary, breaking the silos.
Creating a collaborative environment to develop inquiry based learning in our classes to develop inquiry skills
The promotion of agency both student and teacher
The reciprocal relationship between math & inquiry and literacy and inquiry
Assessment is intertwined with instruction and learning
The notion of teachers pushing thinking forward through questioning