Professional learning - Block I notes

The Golden Circle - Start with the Why

Often the 'Why' is absent from PL opportunities.

What's your why?

The Five Learning Disciplines as a model for effective learning organisations

Communities of Practice - fore runner to communities of learning

Jo Wilson video - outlines process for developing a school wide PL process

Jo Wilson: Leading school-wide professional learning and development from EDtalks on Vimeo.

• Possible futures
• Probably futures
• Preferable futures

Link to Helen Cooper video

BES - 4 levers of effective change (source)

The model has four levers which, together, can drive change:[12]

• effective pedagogy for valued outcomes for diverse (all) learners
• activation of educationally powerful connections
• leadership of conditions for continuous improvement
• productive inquiry and knowledge-building for professional and policy learning.

Leading a PLC - diagram

Robertson, J. (Jan M. ., Timperley, H., & ProQuest (Firm). (2011). Leadership and learning. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications.

EdTalk - Networked Organisation. Being 'networked' is a disposition.