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Remember the How and the Why.
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As school leaders, teachers, educational assistants, consultants we’ve lived the adage, ‘what gets our focus, gets noticed’. Notice though that the what and the where of key components of best practice and researchers in education – John Hattie, Simon Breakspear, Fullan and Hargreaves, Alberta Education and even our Division offices – know what they want schools to do. The data is irrefutable, however have we missed the the why and the how?
Imagine an educational system where school leaders, teachers, EA’s, consultants and support staff had embedded time to collaborate, weekly or biweekly, during the school day, to focus in and dig deeper on what is happening with their students, in their classrooms and their school context in order to affect change.
As the framework in the report presents, ‘multiple parts of a system need to support deep, effective professional learning for adults so that they can improve student learning outcomes”.
The process of the CRM provides the structure that can take us there….let’s get busy on the why and the how.