About Leading Our Way Forward
"Creating a Culture of Learning"
We live in a world where change is constant. How
do we move from a culture of change to a culture
of learning where all stakeholders are committed
to sharing the responsibility for supporting purposeful
and effective change as we design learning to meet
the needs of 21st century students?
The purpose
of Leading Our Way Forward 2011 is to increase
capacity among district/school leadership teams
(e.g. instructional leaders / coaches, *Learning
Coaches) in creating a culture for learning for
all students and staff.
Workshop Overview is
available!
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is to develop adult learning resources to support implementation.
| Keynote |
Presenter |
| Creating Collaborative Cultures: Coaching
and Empowering Educators Through Change |
Bernajean Porter |
| Facilitating and Modeling Instructional
Strategies "Adaptive Schools" |
John Clarke |
| Straight Talk on Building
District Capacity for the Transformational
Agenda |
Jim Brandon CASS and area
superintendents: Michèle Dick (Sturgeon), Edgar
Schmidt (Edmonton
Public) and Kim Jenkins (Fort
McMurray Catholic) |
| Coaching – Creating
System-wide Support |
Joellen Killion |
Recognizing
the rich diversity that exists with school communities
and populations, this conference is an opportunity
for jurisdiction teams to be able to work together
to shape their vision, from where they are today
to where they want to be in the future; aligning
jurisdiction and ministry directions and developing
leadership capacity to support your intended
vision for education. Keynote speakers will stimulate
thinking, and provide research and promising
practices that you can consider to apply in your
context based on processes designed at the workshop
for “table talk time”.
In order to
facilitate meaningful collaborative planning
attendance with your district/school leadership
team is essential. Bringing authentic work is
key to making the event more than just another
conference. The conference design will include
opportunities for “team table talk and
planning time” following the keynotes.
This conference will focus on supporting you in
building a culture of learning specific to:
- Developing and/or enhancing a vision and plan
for leadership capacity and the emerging role
of "learning coaches"
- Creation of implementation plans and approaches
to support the changes your wish to occur in
your context, based on ministry directions such
as Inspiring Action and Action on
Inclusion.
Keynote speakers for this conference include Bernajean
Porter, Joellen
Killion, and John
Clarke. There
will be follow up webinars on coaching and
change with Jim Knight on May 18th and
Michael Fullan on May 25th.
Who should attend?
- District/School leadership
team - District
leadership teams may include
superintendents, associate
superintendents, senior
staff, curriculum coordinators,
special needs directors, technology
leaders, AISI coordinators,
consultants. School leadership
teams may include school administration,
instructional coaches, technology
coaches, assessment coaches,
math leaders, teacher leaders, AISI
coaches.
- Learning Coaches -
A wide variety of terms are used
to describe educators who support
and facilitate learning for their
peers. (e.g. instructional coaches,
specialists, consultants, AISI
lead teachers, instructional leaders,
and assistant principals)
*Learning Coaches are educators who are knowledgeable
about inclusion, the Alberta Program of
Studies, and are skilled at:
- facilitating teacher collaboration
- sharing of
promising practices
