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Who we are

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Whakataukī

Waiho i te toipoto, kaua i te toiroa

Let us keep close together, not wide apart

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Outline:

  • Whakatauki - Erin
  • Introductions
  • Background - Lisa
  • Initiative stories
    • Teacher Agency - Catherine and Alaric
    • Learner Agency - Leigh
    • Working with the Learner - Sue
    • Oral Language / Writing - Erin
  • Conclusion - Alaric

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Across School Leaders presenting today

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Remuera Intermediate

Kohia Terrace

Cornwall Park District School

Meadowbank

Epsom Girls Grammar School

Epsom Girls Grammar School

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Auckland Central Community of Schools

Schools in our Community

Parnell District School

Victoria Avenue School

Newmarket School

Epsom Girls Grammar School

Remuera Primary School

Remuera Intermediate School

Meadowbank Primary School

Cornwall Park District School

Maungawhau Primary School

Kohia Terrace School

Auckland Normal Intermediate

Gardner Road Kindergarten

Epsom Normal Primary School

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INITIAL ACHIEVEMENT CHALLENGES 2015�

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1.

Writing

2.

Reading

3.

NCEA L2

4.

NCEA L3

Tertiary

5.

Parent engagement

participation

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Michael Fullan’s concepts underpin the ACCOS

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  • Leading from the Middle
  • Collaboration, team work
  • Networks of learning
  • Teacher Practice, sharing practice, ‘peer pressure’
  • Intrinsic vs extrinsic motivation of teachers

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John Hattie Vivianne Robinson

According to Hattie's findings, visible learning occurs when teachers see learning through the eyes of students and help them become their own teachers. Hattie found that the ten most effective influences relating to student achievement are:

    • Student self-reporting grades
    • formative assessment 
    • teacher clarity
    • reciprocal teaching 
    • feedback
    • teacher-student relationships
    • meta-cognitive strategies
    • self-verbalisation/ questioning
    • teacher professional development
    • problem-solving teaching

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Agency

Teacher Agency

Student Agency

Community Agency

‘Agency’

has emerged as a key term in the ACCoS

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CoS In- School Roles

In School Leaders were appointed first at the end of 2015. They designed inquires in alignment with the Achievement Challenges

Each school approaches the ISL criteria differently.

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2016

ASLs were appointed after the ISLs – 9 altogether

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2015, 2016 – 2017 July…

Tuckman's group development model was important to refer to in the first two years as we found our feet.

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2016 – 2017 ASLs ran whole ACCOS sessions for In School Leaders across the community

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Getting an action plan together..2017

Vision Statement: Our vision is to improve student outcomes, through the creation of a sustainable, collaborative community which enhances teacher practice and inspires learning and leadership.

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ACCoS Initiatives - 2017. ACCOS Principals undertook a ‘stock take’ of the work so far.. as a result they formed 6 initiatives that were more aligned with the strategic goals of the different schools. Each Principal supports a different initiative.

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AGENCY

WRITING

ORAL

WILD CARD

‘Working with the Learner’

MATHS

ECE

TEACHER

KOHIA

MEADOWBANK

REMUERA INT

VICTORIA AVE

LEARNER

EGGS

MEADOWBANK

PARNELL

REMUERA PR

MAUNGAWHAU

ANI

CORNWALL PARK

MAUNGAWHAU

CORNWALL PARK

REMUERA PRIMARY

EGGS

NEWMARKET

ANI

PARNELL

ALL PRIMARIES

GARDNER RD KINDY

JANICE

STEVE

DELANEE

JANINE

LORRAINE

VIRGINIA

ALISON/

GAYLEEN

Catherine (L)

Leigh (L)

Erin (L)

Mark (L)

Lisa (L)

Sonya (L)

Sarah (L)

Alaric

Mark

Clara

Erin

Sue

Sue

 

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TEACHER AGENCY INITIATIVE

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1 Champion Principal

2 Across School Leaders

10 In School Leaders

130 Teachers

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Our Why

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Kohia Terrace School

Meadowbank School

Remuera Intermediate School

Victoria Avenue School

WHY

Supporting our teachers

to be active participants in their own learning ...

to inquire deeply into their practice ...

and to be effective agents for positive change in our schools

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Our How

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Teacher Agency is the belief and capacity for teachers to act in a purposeful manner to drive their own professional growth through responsive, collaborative and reflective practice in order to improve teaching and learning.

Sinek circle reference link here?

How

Collaboration

Community

Co-construction

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Our What

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Teacher Agency progression matrix

  • Teacher beliefs
  • Capacity to Act
  • Collaboration
  • Professional Growth
  • Reflective practice

Schools matrix

  • Data
  • Professional learning
  • Wellbeing and resilience

What

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Our What

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Teacher Agency Initiative Action Plan

  • Collaboratively constructed
  • Consistent approach
  • Flexibility to suit context

What

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Our What

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Our What

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What

Link to website

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How do we know we are making a difference?

What impact has the initiative had on teachers in our schools?

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  • self assessment scores against the matrix increased across all strands and in all schools.

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How do we know we are making a difference?

What impact has the initiative had on teachers in our schools?

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How do we know we are making a difference?

What impact has the initiative had on teachers in our schools?

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My understanding has shifted hugely over this year as a result of my own professional inquiry and from being a part of the Teacher Agency COS Initiative.

I am now actively seeking out colleagues from other schools for observation and discussion of their teaching practices and programmes.

I have a clearer understanding of the expectation of a highly agentic teacher and what it entails. This motivates me to continue to develop my own teacher agency and further develop my practice to become more agentic.

Teacher Agency Initiative Schools

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Concluding thoughts

  • Cannot underestimate the power of �a collaborative approach�
  • Generation of the matrix as a tool �to measure agency�
  • This year has been the launch

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Learner Agency

5 Schools

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Establishing a common understanding

Learners have agency when they have influence and a sense of ownership over their learning, having the ability and opportunity to be part of the learning design process”

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Where did we begin?

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What have we done?

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Has the initiative enhanced the learning process?

“I can choose one of the things I don’t know from the ladder. Those are the things I need to work on. If I do a knowledge card and I get two wrong, I know I need to get them all right to move on. In a test, if there are some (questions) I don’t know or are interesting, I can choose that.”

Year 3 student

How do you know what your next steps in learning are?

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Are we making a difference?

  • Analysis of our beginning and end of year data shows significant pockets of growth in agency across the involved schools; however, it would be remiss to assume a direct connection between this growth and the 2018 Learner Agency interventions. Challenge: to gather valid & reliable longitudinal data on learner agency

  • Students are more aware and strategic in identifying

and addressing their own learning needs

  • Rich and animated staff discussions around Learner

Agency are happening within PLGs

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Working with the Learner

Epsom Girls Grammar School

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Working with the Learner

School: Epsom Girls Grammar School

Teachers: 160

In school leaders: 14

Across School leaders: � Lisa Murphy and Sue Spencer

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Why?

The purpose behind our initiative

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  • Existing PLG model in the school
  • Fourteen within school teachers (ISLs) have become the PLG leaders
  • Across School Leaders coach the ISLs
  • Inquiry model is used with a research base
  • Key goals are curriculum, pedagogy and relationships
  • Focus is on Learner Agency

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How?

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Curriculum Design

Pedagogies for

Innovative Learning

Building Constructive Relationships

Restorative Practices

Collab Classrooms

Hikoi with Us

UDL

Tertiary. LIfe. Beyond.

Blended Learning

Philosophy

Cross Curricular Projects/Units

Peer Feedback

Assessment for Learning

Making Critical Thinking Visible and audible

Cross Curricular Literacy

Literacy across the Curriculum (Vocab)

Mindfulness

‘Working with the learner’ at EGGS

Transitions from..

Transitions to....

Successful Transitions

2018

PLG Groups for 2018 consolidated certain threads

What?

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What? Philosophy Tools

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What? Blended Learning

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What? Collaborative Classrooms

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Challenges:

  • Turnover of ISLs during the year
  • Only high school in the Kāhui Ako
  • Mistrust of the agenda
  • Need to develop teacher agency first
  • Then can implement learner agency

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The present

  • PLGs are cross-curricula now
  • Breakdown of traditional departmental silos
  • Good understanding of Learner Agency developing

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Oral Language and Writing

Using research as a Provocation

Across School SHARED PD

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Conclusion

  • Agency as an emerging focus�
  • Relationships and a basis in Appreciative Theory�
  • Learner at the centre
  • Challenges of Data�
  • Challenges of conceptual buy-in�
  • Sharing our journeys

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TeachMeetNZ ACCoS Kāhui Ako focussed Session 2018

TeachMeetNZ has had over 100 educators who have joined in to help create an artefact for the education community.

Date: Tuesday 20th of November

Time: New Zealand 3.30-4.30pm (UT + 13 hrs) (check for local time).

Venue: Google Hangout

We continue #TeachMeetNZ for 2018 with another stunning line up of fabulous Kiwi educators sharing their learning. This time we have Across School Leaders from ACCoS sharing their 2018 initiatives.

Join the TeachMeetNZ Kāhui Ako session with ACCoS. (Auckland Central Community of School.)

This 60 minute session can be accessed live from

  • YouTube
  • ACCoS Blog

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Date: Tuesday Week 6 Tuesday 20th of November

Virtual:via Youtube

http://youtu.be/VEu1sat43AA

Time: 3.30- 4.30pm

Focus:ASL Sharing initiatives

Attendance:

Register on Eventbrite

for the session you will be placed in a draw to win a paper copy of

2017 EDBookNZ

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Where to next

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Useful links.

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faafetai

Mauruuru

Thank you

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