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This enlightening journey of connecting with inspiring & driven educators and IB leaders has encouraged beneficial professional inquiry and thought-provoking & intentional reflection. Our collaborative and open-minded collective cultivated thought-invoking discussion. Intentional in our approach and reflective in our practice, we have endeavoured to create valuable strategic planning through active analysis of our IB programs. We review our mission and vision to strategically plan for effective teaching and learning in our schools. Through valuable and relevant resources, we have found this stimulating workshop to be extremely beneficial to our own professional growth as well as the growth of our programs.

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Freakonomics-the original book with the section on high-stakes testing and "creating cheaters out of teachers.

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Freakonomics-the original book with the section on high-stakes testing and "creating cheaters out of teachers.

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When Freakonomics was first published, the authors started a blog-and they've kept it up. The writing is more casual, more personal, even more outlandish than in their books. In When to Rob a Bank, they ask a host of typically off-center questions: Why don't flight attendants get tipped?

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It's final exam time, and my office is packed with a few of the 520 students in my bigger class. Although I'm pleased by their interest, I ask why they're spending so much time on my course. The answer is that it's the only final exam they have.

In their sociology, government and some other introductory...

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Freakonomics - The hidden side of everything

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It's final exam time, and my office is packed with a few of the 520 students in my bigger class. Although I'm pleased by their interest, I ask why they're spending so much time on my course. The answer is that it's the only final exam they have.

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Here's a great non-threatening way to get teachers into each other's classrooms.
https://www.cultofpedagogy.com/pineapple-charts/

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As a coordinator, I don't have evaluative authority (and don't want it!), how can my interactions with teachers support their evolution as IB teachers and professionals in general? What have you all seen that works?

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Mindfulness Resource:   Dr. Maria Hersey is a great resource to lead your building in implementing Mindfulness activities. She is a past IBNA PYP Manager and has a wealth of IB knowledge.Her contact information:Maria S. Hersey, Ph.DPrincipal AdvisorTelephone: (001) 561-627-8933Email: globaledadvisors@gmail.com

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Mindfulness Resource:   Dr. Maria Hersey is a great resource to lead your building in implementing Mindfulness activities. She is a past IBNA PYP Manager and has a wealth of IB knowledge.Her contact information:Maria S. Hersey, Ph.DPrincipal AdvisorTelephone: (001) 561-627-8933Email: globaledadvisors@gmail.com

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Visible Learning (Hattie)

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Professor John Hattie gave a keynote presentation on "Collaborative Impact" in front of school leaders and principals at Cognition Education's "Collaborative Impact: Research & Practice Conference 2017". Watch the video to get some important updates on the Visible Learning story. Read on for some quick takeaways. UPDATE: Thank you for your comments! Unfortunately all the videos have been deleted on Youtube. Nevertheless, you can read on about the previously available keynote video for some quick takeaways.
The Evidence Base

John Hattie constantly updates his Visible Learning research which is now based on the data of 300 million students. He has synthesized over 1400 meta-analyses and put together a list of 252 influences related to learning and achievement. The story underlying the data of Visible Learning remains unchanged although these numbers are up from 800 meta-studies synthesized in the Visible Learning meta-study (2009).

In his presentation, Hattie also gave a new explanation of the hinge-point d=0.4; the average effect size of all influences. Comparing the data of different education systems (Australia, UK, USA) he wanted to know how much growth students make over a year of schooling. Hattie found that in each of these countries it is exactly 0.40 in terms of effect size - "to the decimal point". Yet another evidence-based argument why students deserve at least one year of growth for one year of schooling.

New No. 1: Teachers' collective efficacy

At the top of the list of influences, there are some new entries since the first Visible Learning study was published in 2009. In his presentation, Hattie cites the new number one as "collective teacher efficacy". (NB: The top two entries are inverted in a paper published in 2015). The most important aspect of "collective efficacy" is making teachers believe: "I cause learning."Collective efficacy is not about making teachers feel good about themselves, it is more complicated than just believing you can make a difference collectively. Hattie's definition of "collective efficacy" is "collaborative conversation based on evidence". There are a couple of books about the subject but Hattie suggests that only some of them get the notion right, e.g. Jenni Donohoo's " Collective Efficacy: How Educators' Beliefs Impact Student Learning ".

New No. 2: Teacher expectations

Teacher expectations can have a huge impact on learning outcomes. How do teachers make learning challenging according to the Goldilocks principle: Not too hard, not too boring? Hattie cites Christine Rubie-Davies book and research: It is about "challenge" not about "doing your best". For further insights, you should read her book " Becoming a high expectations teacher ".

Know thy Impact and Hattie's Mindframes

When asked by teachers and school leaders "What does impact mean?" Hattie never answers the question. According to him, more important than a definition of "impact" is what teachers and students inside the school think that " impact" and "learning" looks like? Hattie got into trouble last year when TES published an interview with the title " Hattie is against teachers being researchers ". According to him, they missed the second half of the sentence: "I don't want to be educators to be researchers, I want them to be evaluators." Instead of asking why-questions teachers should ask so-what-questions: What is the impact?

Round-up: Collaboration and collective impact

To sum it all up Hattie provides some guidelines of how to reframe the conversation about teaching and learning in order to achieve collective impact.
"We need to move away...

from teaching to learning

from best practice to high impact

from looking at teachers teaching

to sharing observations of the impact

and collectively evaluating this impact

from prioritizing achievement to prioritizing progress."

Sources:

Further reading:

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Video: Watch John Hattie's Keynote On Collaborative Impact - VISIBLE LEARNING

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Professor John Hattie gave a keynote presentation on "Collaborative Impact" in front of school leaders and principals at Cognition Education's "Collaborative Impact: Research & Practice Conference 2017". Watch the video to get some important updates on the Visible Learning story. Read on for...Read more ›

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How do we create SMART goals that are manageable.

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How do we create SMART goals that are manageable.

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We heard many leaders in the workshop discuss the issues around teacher buy-in from veteran teachers. I must stand up for the veterans but also help with this issue for leaders.

BY FAR the most inspirational and professional people I have enjoyed as mentors and colleagues were those who were veterans of decades who always embrace new learning and ideas and are truly the leaders of professional learning. (Just look at Lucila).

Veterans are also commonly those who impede progress. For those who are impeders, I want leaders to be willing to ask the difficult question:
"Are you going to be a leader of learning and inspire professional growth in this building or are you going to be the veteran teacher that all of the educational reform movements point to as married to the status quo?"

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How can we be mindful of the role of reflection in our leadership?

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Why Mindfulness

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DCSD PD (@DCSDpd). DCSD Professional Development

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This school replaced detention with meditation. The results are stunning.

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Some schools are replacing detention with meditation, and science is backing them up.

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Mindfulness in a Douglas County School District IB PYP school.

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‪@RXPI_DCSD A Mindfulness Activity Smell & Tell @dcsdk12 ‬

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Mindfulness in a Douglas County School District IB PYP school.

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‪@RXPI_DCSD A Student's View of Mindfulness @dcsdk12 ‬

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Mindfulness in a Douglas County School District IB PYP school.

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‪@RXPI_DCSD An Invisible Maze for Mindfulness @dcsdk12 ‬

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Design Thinking Resource from Stanford D School

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Design Thinking Resource from Stanford D School

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Get Started with Design Thinking — Stanford d.school

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Design thinking is a methodology for creative problem solving. You can use it to inform your own teaching practice, or you can teach it to your students as a framework for real-world projects. The set of resources on this page offer experiences and lessons you can run with your students. This gives

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I absolutely have a passion for DT and see it as a wonderful opportunity to help students in their personal projects in IB.

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A free toolkit to help empower teachers to create solutions

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What would the IB philosophy tell us about the "who" that should always be at the middle of our circle?

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I love this video. For my building, we are needing to revisit the "why" IB as there are some who are still not sure who have been a part of the building for a bit. This provides a great conversation for staff members to revisit their own why, to get to the building's mission, to get to IB's mission as well. Definitely appreciate this resource as I'm planning for the coming year!

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Simon Sinek has a simple but powerful model for inspirational leadership -- starting with a golden circle and the question: “Why?” His examples include Apple, Martin Luther King Jr. and the Wright brothers…

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How does your district support IB at your school?

What kind of support would you like from your district in regards to IB?

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Simon Sinek is the author of Start with Why and the creator of concept he calls "The Golden Circle." The Ted Talk he gave on the topic is incredibly popular, almost 10 million views as I write this.

The concept of the Golden Circle is simple. It looks like this:

Sinek purports that great organizations seem to create their foundation by first addressing Why they exist, then How they go about their mission, and then finally, What they do.

Let me say first that I really appreciate what Sinek is doing - inspiring leaders to think about the soulful calling of their organizations and to rally others to a bigger cause beyond just selling widgets. And he does a masterful job of calling out that people don't buy what you do, they buy why you do it, and that it's critical to attract customers who believe what you believe. Awesome.

However, the truth is that great organizations build their core ideology by first defining and reinforcing Who they serve and the customer problem or need that they solve in the marketplace. Then they address and reinforce Why they exist, then How they go about their mission, and finally What they do.

So a modified more accurate Golden Circle should really be drawn like this:

How do I know? Two reasons:

1) A business doesn't exist to promote its beliefs. It exists to produce results for its customers (Who it serves). Understanding who your customer really is and the problem or pain they seek to solve is what differentiates a company in the marketplace and keeps it focused on the highest goal - creating customers.

It's an easy trap to fall into. You get so caught up in your own beliefs - how you think the world should be versus how it really is - that you lose sight of who your customer is and the pain point that they really want solved. That's why you exist. To solve a need in the marketplace. If you're not solving needs, then you're quickly going to go out of business regardless of how inspiring your vision statement is.

2) Leading with Who is what also allows the business to successfully navigate what in his Ted Talk Sinek calls the "Law of Innovation Diffusion." This law is a term used to describe how innovations spread in the marketplace through a series of unique stages of customer groups. It tends to be depicted in a bell curve like this:

Here again Who is most important. By focusing on the Who you serve, it allows you to understand which customer segment you're selling to at any given time and to refine/adapt your solutions to meet those customer needs over time.

Knowing which type of customer to pay attention to, and when, also allows you to anticipate and respond to changes in the marketplace and successfully drive new innovations forward. I explain how to do this in detail in Part III of my book: Organizational Physics - The Science of Growing a Business.)

I think Sinek realizes that great organizations begin with Who too. For example, when he says that Tivo should have led their branding with this, "If you're a person who values having total control of your life, then you'll love our product". He's really calling out the power of starting with Who. Also, his example of Martin Luther King also supports the notion of leading with Who. "I have a dream that all men are created equal." Dr. King is also focusing on the Who first. Finally, the ultimate point Sinek is trying to make is that people buy what they believe (Who), not what you believe.

To sum up: The reason that your organization should build its foundation on Who is that every business exist to serve the needs of other individuals and organizations in the marketplace, who. Bring "who you serve and the problem or need that you solve" to the forefront of your organization's consciousness. By doing so, you focus organizational efforts on the most important thing - meeting customer needs - and by monitoring and adapting to those needs, you cause the organization to adapt and innovate over time. And as Sinek points out so well, you must marry the Who with a powerful Why - a set of internal beliefs that all of your marketing and communications flow from within the organization to outside in the world. Think Who. Then Why, How, and What.

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Simon Sinek is the author of Start with Why and the creator of concept he calls "The Golden Circle." The Ted Talk he gave on the topic is incredibly popular, almost 10 million views as I write this. The concept of the Golden Circle is simple.

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A good leader needs to encourage / provide opportunities for others to further their learning.

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I am so interested in the idea of creating global thinkers out of our students but know that I first have to create global thinkers out of teachers.

Thank you to Lucila for sharing the GCAA as a way to examine where we are in terms of our global awareness and thinking.

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Global Competence Aptitude Assessment® - About the GCAA®

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Today's economy is characterized by increasing uncertainty, accelerating interdependence and an expanding diversity of stakeholders. In this global context, finding solutions, meeting challenges and seizing opportunities requires individuals' readiness to transcend traditional boundaries. The new paradigm calls for aligning people, processes and practices across not only geographies but across languages and cultures.

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Dan Pink on leaders motivating their groups through autonomy

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Career analyst Dan Pink examines the puzzle of motivation, starting with a fact that social scientists know but most managers don't: Traditional rewards aren't always as effective as we think. Listen for illuminating stories -- and maybe, a way forward.

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The different types of interventions for schools in varied phases of expertise

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How do strong leaders steer their at-risk school communities to success?

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What defines "good" leadership (effective teaching and learning....a great educator)?

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What defines "good" leadership (effective teaching and learning....a great educator)?

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We would never fire our children or suspend our parents-so why do we readily adopt that practice when it comes to managing employees in the business sector? For Simon Sinek, motivation speaker and author of Start With Why and Leaders Eat Last, leadership is paramount to business success.

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I want to know "best ways" to support my teachers in achieving all of the goals of the IB PYP.

I would also love to share ways to bring more of an international mindedness to the campus.

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Professional inquiry - systems/structures/formats for making that happen?

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Professional inquiry - systems/structures/formats for making that happen?

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Sir Ken Robinson: Collaboration in the 21st Century

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Principal, Sedona, AZ             As a leader, building trust with consistency, compassion and a shared vision help teachers focus upon their main work--connecting with students and helping them to achieve to their best abilities.  

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Principal, Sedona, AZ             As a leader, building trust with consistency, compassion and a shared vision help teachers focus upon their main work--connecting with students and helping them to achieve to their best abilities.  

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Creating "the" goal or target that will lead the learning in the right direction:                -What goal can we provide that would be beneficial to staff?                                       -How do we go about creating that?                                        -How do we determine what the needs are? 

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Creating "the" goal or target that will lead the learning in the right direction:                -What goal can we provide that would be beneficial to staff?                                       -How do we go about creating that?                                        -How do we determine what the needs are? 

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3 areas of contextualization depends on history, culture, values...
*student targets
*language of instruction
*Professional development

IB leadership is a combination of west and east leadership styles

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Confirmed my belief that leadership is being a teacher of teachers....with a goal of being "educator".

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Confirmed my belief that leadership is being a teacher of teachers....with a goal of being "educator".

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http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/work_in_progress/2016/05/teachers_vs_educators_which_ar.html?intc=main-mpsmcs

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How does tracking the students (like the Singapore school in our reading) meld with IB philosophy?

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An effective leader needs to know the culture and the needs of the group. They need to be able to transition between different leadership styles depending on the context of the situation.

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Different approaches and styles in different countries

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How government influences education in different countries

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Leadership relies upon a commitment to a leadership style (or combination of styles) and flexibilities between these. (People expect consistency, but do not appreciate rigidity.)

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Assistant Principal Air Academy High School; United States Air Force Academy; Academy District 20

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Assistant Principal Air Academy High School; United States Air Force Academy; Academy District 20