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PRECONFERENCE SESSIONS
DECEMBER 4, 2016
SUNDAY
9 AM - 4 PM
PC214 |
Collaborative Inquiry: Transforming
Professional Learning in Schools
Collaborative inquiry
holds the potential to
transform learning,
leading, and teaching.
It is an instrumental
approach to developing
teacher leadership and professional
capital, increasing efficacy, and shifting
attributions regarding causes for student
success or failure. Examine the conditions
needed to bring about a wider and deeper
adoption of collaborative inquiry in schools
and school districts. Understand what
collaborative inquiry is and what it is not
and discuss six linchpins necessary to
bring collaborative inquiry to scale. Explore
ways to provoke educators’ thinking so
they have a clear understanding of how
their actions make an impact on student
outcomes.
Participants will:
• Be able to name the stages of
collaborative inquiry and describe key
aspects of each stage.
• Differentiate between technical and
adaptive challenges.
• Know how to enable conditions
necessary for collaborative learning.
• Consider various trajectories of
collaborative inquiry teams and develop
questions to strengthen the collection
and analysis of evidence.
• Explore ways to help teams reconcile
discrepancies between espoused
theories and theories-in-use.
• Leave with the ability to support teams
through the stages of collaborative
inquiry, while they ensure the work is
purposeful, productive, and impactful.
Jenni Donohoo, Ministry of Education,
Toronto, ON, Canada, jenni.donohoo@
learningforwardontario.ca; @jenni_donohoo.
Jenni Donohoo is a provincial literacy lead for the
GAINS Literacy Initiative in Ontario (Curriculum
and Assessment Policy Branch, Ministry of
Education). She is the past president of Learning
Forward Ontario and is currently the editor of
Learning Forward Ontario’s quarterly newsletter.
Donohoo has published a best-selling book
entitled Collaborative Inquiry for Educators: A
Facilitator’s Guide to School Improvement (Corwin,
2013) and a new book entitled The Transformative
Power of Collaborative Inquiry (Corwin, 2016) with
Moses Velasco.
Area of Focus: Learning Designs
PC215 |
Transforming Professional
Learning: A System’s Approach
Have you
asked
yourself
how you
can possibly
move yet
another initiative to full implementation?
Hear how that challenge was taken up in
Washington State with the development
of a statewide system of professional
learning in partnership with the state
agency, educational service districts
(ESDs), and school districts. Find out
how to leverage Learning Forward’s
Standards for Professional Learning, tools,
and processes to develop a professional
learning system that can hold the launch
and successful implementation of any
initiative that comes your way. Leave with
a roadmap and the tools needed to build
a system of professional learning that
supports teachers and leaders to reach the
aspirational goals for learning.
Participants will:
• Gain an understanding of the key
elements of a professional learning
system.
• Experience the tools and processes
Learning Forward has in place to support
your work.
• Learn from the implementation successes
and challenges of Washington State’s
on-going transformation of professional
learning.
• Develop your own roadmap to transform
professional learning in your province,
state, region, district, or school.
Jane Chadsey, Educurious, Seattle, WA,
jchadsey@educurious.org
Jane Chadsey is vice president of Educurious,
a non-profit dedicated to creating solutions to
today’s most perplexing education challenges.
At Educurious, Chadsey has designed a
professional learning system for teachers using
a blended learning model of face-to-face and
virtual learning experiences that supports
teachers in problem-based, blended learning
instruction. Before joining Educurious, she was
the director of curriculum and instruction at
the Renton School District where she led a staff
of 20 instructional coaches and supervised the
curriculum, professional development, and
instruction for a 14,000-student K-12 district.
Christine Corbley, Federal Way Public Schools,
Federal Way, WA, ccorbley@fwps.org
Christine Corbley is the principal of the
Truman Campus and Internet Academy with
Federal Way Public Schools. She is president
of Learning Forward Washington and is
member of the board of directors for Learning
Forward Foundation. She has held numerous
roles including teacher, instructional coach,
consultant, district administrator, building
administrator and college instructor. She
has been a member of the National Staff
Development Council, now Learning Forward,
since 1998 and was a founding member of
Learning Forward WA.
Area of Focus: Implementation
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