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ELA & Mathematics FellowsNovember 17th, 2014

+Introductions

Olympic Peninsula

Prefer Mondays

Kitsap Peninsula

Prefer Fridays

• Move to the side of the room aligned to the category that fits you best.

• When everyone has selected a side, introduce yourself to two people in your group

+State Vision for ELA & Math Fellows Build teacher leader capacity in English Language

Arts (ELA) and Mathematics across all regions in Washington

Create a state-wide system of supports grounded in a consistent educator network that provides access to implementation resources across the regions

Create a platform for teacher voice to inform statewide implementation efforts

Build on existing opportunities that engage teacher leaders within each region

+Videos

OSPI Randy Dorn AESD Ian Grabenhorst

+Larger context

Advocate and Systematize

Collaborate and Implement

Leadership of Self

Know and Model

Leadership of Others

Leadership in the Extended

Community

Purpose of the Fellows

To be a part of and support a system that focuses on all students becoming literate individuals. -- Leadership in the Extended Community

To be a part of a community of learners that focuses on putting the shifts into practice to reflect the Washington State Learning Standards vision. -- Leadership of Others and Self

To deprivatize our practice and take risks in order to facilitate high quality literacy instruction that leads to improving student outcomes -- Leadership of Self

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1. Pausing

2. Paraphrasing

3. Probing for specificity

4. Putting ideas on the table

5. Paying attention to self and others

6. Presuming positive intentions

7. Pursuing a balance between advocacy and inquiry

Seven Norms of Collaboration

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Module 2 – Adult Learning

+Learning Targets

Introduce aspects of adult learning as an element of the Teacher Leadership Framework

Know and understand yourself as a leader in relation to your Fellows work

Know and understand groups and group dynamics

+Introduction: Adult Learning

Review the Adult Learning page from the Teacher Leadership Framework.

Review your individual self-assessment you took at our last meeting – consider, “What do you notice about how you assessed yourself in this area?”

Reflect on “Where do you need to build capacity when you work with adult learners? What makes you say that?”

Building Trusting Relationships (OESD)

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10

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30

Consistently Usually Occasionally

Facilitating Adult Learning (OESD)

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Consistently Usually Occasionally

+Adult Learning: Group Dynamics and Knowing Yourself

Read ‘Predictable Dynamics in Groups’ article.

On the back of the article you have 4 lines representing the continua from the article:

Task Relationship

Certainty Ambiguity

Detail Big Picture

Autonomy Collaboration

Mark an ‘X’ where you see yourself on each continuum.

What are the implications of these preferences for you as a Fellow and your work to implement the Common Core?

+Adult Learning: Group Dynamics

Create a Human Continuum with the following (we’ll do this 4x – one for each):

1. Task – Relationship

2. Certainty – Ambiguity

3. Detailed – Big Picture

4. Autonomy - Collaboration

+Adult Learning: Charting Preferences and Knowing Groupsle

Divide poster into four quadrants and label (see example below). Collect your group’s thinking in each quadrant of the poster

Words or actions that might convey this stance:

When it might be effective for a leader to speak from this stance:

When this stance might be an ineffective choice:

What a person in this stance might not be able to do effectively:

+Reflection & Wrap Up

How did engaging in this activity help you think about your work as a fellow? Where does it fit? Where doesn’t it?

What are you considering about your work with adult learners that you weren’t before? What concerns do you have that need to be addressed?

+Extension Activity

Here's what I got out of our reflecting on adult learning and teacher leadership today…

So what -- what is important about this learning?

Now what -- how might my actions as a fellow be impacted by this learning? What might I point to as a change in my planning or practice that would reflect what was learned and discussed today?

+Break & Break-out Time