2016 - 2017 Yukon Education Learning Networks
"The Spiral Playbook: Leading with an inquiring mindset in school systems and schools (Kaser & Halbert 2016) points the way forward for building capacity for system-wide educational transformation. It describes a sustainable approach to professional inquiry that aims to transform how educators learn and lead – with teams and across networks. To order your copy and access other resources, click here. You can also download the Spiral Playbook Quick Reference Guide." (http://noii.ca/resources-2/)
The Learning Support Services (LSS) unit continues to follow this path for building capacity for system-wide educational transformation. More specifically, LSS is continuing the collaboration with K-12 educators in our work to deepen understanding of the redesigned curriculum through an inquiry into making learning visible. It is our hope that your participation in our learning networks will lead to new learning and new actions that will infuse you and your learners with “the confidence, the insights and mindsets needed to design… powerful learning opportunities” (Halbert, Kaser and Timperley, 2014). Our overarching inquiry question is:
How will making learning visible in my classroom impact student learning?
In an effort to further enhance the use of technology as an accelerator of learning, our learning networks involve the blending of first-hand experiences with both online learning approaches and face-to-face competency-based teaching and learning. In addition, the Learning, Curriculum and Assessment Branch is dedicated to expanding the breadth of our stories by collaborating and sharing the work of innovative Yukon educators across our system and within Canada. To this end, in May 2017 the branch will provide an opportunity for 6 Yukon teachers from our learning networks to attend the Network of Innovation and Inquiry Symposium in Richmond, BC. In exchange we ask that these educators “pay it forward” through their willingness to share their work with others through means such as class visitations, presentations at future Summer Academies or other collaborative opportunities.
Learning Intentions:
Timeline:
Timeline Option 2: Work independently with your own inquiry group. Please register your group by submitting your inquiry group description and collaboration schedule by Friday, September 30, 2016. Attend our Teacher Learning Network celebration of learning April 11, 2017 to share your learning.
This year, the learning networks include:
The Learning Support Services (LSS) unit continues to follow this path for building capacity for system-wide educational transformation. More specifically, LSS is continuing the collaboration with K-12 educators in our work to deepen understanding of the redesigned curriculum through an inquiry into making learning visible. It is our hope that your participation in our learning networks will lead to new learning and new actions that will infuse you and your learners with “the confidence, the insights and mindsets needed to design… powerful learning opportunities” (Halbert, Kaser and Timperley, 2014). Our overarching inquiry question is:
How will making learning visible in my classroom impact student learning?
In an effort to further enhance the use of technology as an accelerator of learning, our learning networks involve the blending of first-hand experiences with both online learning approaches and face-to-face competency-based teaching and learning. In addition, the Learning, Curriculum and Assessment Branch is dedicated to expanding the breadth of our stories by collaborating and sharing the work of innovative Yukon educators across our system and within Canada. To this end, in May 2017 the branch will provide an opportunity for 6 Yukon teachers from our learning networks to attend the Network of Innovation and Inquiry Symposium in Richmond, BC. In exchange we ask that these educators “pay it forward” through their willingness to share their work with others through means such as class visitations, presentations at future Summer Academies or other collaborative opportunities.
Learning Intentions:
- Deepen our understanding of the Spiral of Inquiry;
- Deepen our understanding of the redesigned curriculum;
- Build capacity to support effective instructional approaches;
- Develop leadership capacity and encourage sharing in the work of our curriculum redesign
Timeline:
- Session 1: EITHER Thursday, August 25, 2016 8:30 AM – 11:30 AM OR 12:30 PM – 3:30 PM at summer academy with Judy Halbert & Linda Kaser, authors of Spirals of Inquiry for Equity and Quality
- OPTIONAL SESSION: Monday, September 12, 2016 3:45 PM – 4:30 PM. Orientation to the Blackboard Collaborate online meeting room
- Session 2: EITHER Wednesday, September 14, 2016 9 AM – 11:30 AM OR 1:00 PM – 3:30 PM in an online meeting room
- Session 3: EITHER Tuesday, October 18, 2016 9 AM – 3:30 PM in Whitehorse OR Wednesday, October 26, 2016 9 AM – 3:30 PM in Whitehorse
- Session 4: EITHER Wednesday, November 29, 2016 9 AM – 11:30 AM OR 1:00 PM – 3:30 PM in an online meeting room
- Session 5: EITHER Tuesday, January 10, 2017 9 AM – 3:30 PM OR Wednesday, January 18, 2017 OR Monday, January 30 in Whitehorse
- Session 6: EITHER Wednesday, February 22, 2017 9 AM – 11:30 AM OR 1:00 PM – 3:30 PM in an online meeting room
- Session 7: Tuesday, April 11, 2017 Celebration of Learning Location- TBA
Timeline Option 2: Work independently with your own inquiry group. Please register your group by submitting your inquiry group description and collaboration schedule by Friday, September 30, 2016. Attend our Teacher Learning Network celebration of learning April 11, 2017 to share your learning.
This year, the learning networks include:
- Trades Education: Making Applied Design, Skills, and Technology Hands-On Learning Visible (One elementary group and one secondary woodworking group.)
- Making Core Competencies and Language Learning Visible
- Making Place-Based Experiential Learning Visible in Rural Schools
- Making the Weaving of Ways of Knowing and Doing and the New Curriculum in the Classroom Visible
- Making Blended Learning Visible
- Amber Dumouchel, JVC
- Corrie Lalonde, HFE
- Cyndi O'Rourke, SEC
- Jerry Heal, PCS
- Nicole Cross and Camille Luks, PCS
- Steve Fergusson, EET/HVE
- Trine Dennis, SES
- Valerie Ireland, JHE