NorCal ELC
Regional PLC Meeting
Session 2
October 24, 2022
Before We Begin
(*See: Resource Page for technical support)
Introductions
Abeo School Change
Human-Centered
Collaborative Agreements
Agreements and Norms
Operating Norms
Page #
Essential Question:
How do we collectively transform education to improve access, opportunity and inclusion, especially for students who are historically underserved / historically resilient, so that they can thrive?
Guiding Question:
How do we increase the likelihood that our continuous improvement efforts interrupt existing inequities?
It’s Milestone Day!
Outcomes
At its simplest, reflection is about careful thought. But the kind of reflection that is really valuable to leaders is more nuanced than that. The most useful reflection involves the conscious consideration and analysis of beliefs and actions for the purpose of learning. Reflection gives the brain an opportunity to pause amidst the chaos, untangle and sort through observations and experiences, consider multiple possible interpretations, and create meaning. This meaning becomes the learning, which can then inform future mindsets and actions. For leaders, this “meaning making” is crucial to their ongoing growth and development.
-Harvard Business Review
Personal Written Reflection
Inclusive Opener
Inclusive Opener
Clarifying Questions
Litmus test: If the presenter has to think before they answer- it’s not a clarifying question
Examples
Inclusive Opener - Reflection Connection
2
Quiet Reflection & Break
Team PLCs
Outcomes
3-4
Team PLC Workshops
5-6
Joining Breakout Rooms
16-18
Reflection
7
Coming Up . . .
Roadmap - Professional Learning Sessions
11
Optimistic Closure - History Chooses You
It is strange but familiar to hear people who are now well-known activists and respected workers for noble causes describe themselves as “accidental activists.”
They tell how a compulsion entered them, a clarity that they had to do this work. They say: “I couldn’t not do it” or “If I didn’t do something, I felt I would go crazy” or “Before I even realized what I was doing, I was doing it.”
In every case, they saw an injustice or tragedy or possibility when others weren’t aware of a thing. They heard a thundering call that nobody else noticed.
Why this happens is a puzzlement, but it seems that issues choose us. They summon us to pay attention while others stay oblivious. They prompt us to act while others stay asleep. They offer us dreams of bold new futures that others will never see.
We are both blessed and cursed when history chooses us.
But once chosen, we can’t not do it.
-Margaret Wheatley from Perseverance