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LS - LST. Learning Services – Learning Support Team October 4, 2012. Essential Questions. 1 . Who can I connect with to support the work of our LST? 2. What exactly is it I’m supposed to do as a member of an LST? What’s the big picture?

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  1. LS - LST Learning Services – Learning Support Team October 4, 2012

  2. Essential Questions 1. Who can I connect with to support the work of our LST? 2. What exactly is it I’m supposed to do as a member of an LST? • What’s the big picture? • Specifically, what does our LST hope to accomplish this year? 3. How can we build or strengthen our teams at our school? • What should I keep in mind as I work with adults?

  3. Our Day: • Getting to know the team • Big Picture Reflection – district level; School Level • LST Roles and Structures • Detailed Planning – what do you hope to accomplish this year? • LUNCH • Effective teams • Q & A

  4. Table Group Introductions: Around the table: • Name & School • Subjects or grade levels • One person you know in this room… • How did you get to be part of your schools LST? • Something that’s on your bucket list… • Your pet peeve…

  5. What’s the big picture?

  6. What do you hope to accomplish?

  7. Building the Airplane

  8. Fred & George

  9. Shared Vision Co-Creating Consulting Testing Selling Telling Degree of Active Involvement Adaptedfrom: Senge, (1994), The Fifth Discipline Field book.

  10. If you were to walk in the doors of your school in 3 years, what would teacher practice and the student’s experience look like as a result of your instructional improvement work? • Record your thoughts on the sheet provided

  11. Note the color of the dot on your group’s table card • Find someone at a different table with the same color of dot • Share and refine your thoughts

  12. What’s your picture?

  13. How does your LST fit into the big picture? • Personal reflection time (5 min.) • (principles of adult learning ~ meeting the learning styles of each adult)

  14. How does your LST fit into the big picture? • Groupdiscussion time (30 min.) • Facilitator – person who travelled the furthest away this summer • Make sure everyone’s voice is heard

  15. As you went through this process… • What sections do you need more information about in order to answer? • What is unclear? • What supports do you need?

  16. Break…15 minutes

  17. Architect Builder

  18. What am I supposed to do a an LST member? AISI + Special Ed liaison +Admin= Learning Support Team

  19. Learning Support Teams

  20. Moving From…Isolated Work

  21. Moving To…Learning Support Teams

  22. What am I supposed to do a an LST member? • What is your confidence level? • What supports would you need? • What should we consider? On your own

  23. Thoughts on Coaching Peer Collaborative Coaching • Teachers continuously support and reflect upon their classroom practices through co-planning, co-teaching, modelling and data collecting to enhance the quality learning environments for all students.

  24. First Word, Last Word Facilitator Blurt Patrol • What scares you? • What are you most comfortable with? • What is missing? • How is it set up in your school now? Open Conversation

  25. Key Messages on Coaching • If you’ve already begun on this process – take care in terms of skill level, trust, confidentiality • We’d like you to be content experts in the project goals (e.g. literacy, engagement) • We’d like you to be process experts – able to ask good questions to guide thinking • We’d like you to be able to facilitate opportunities for peer coaching • We’d like you to be able to determine when you will consult, mentor or coach • We’d like you to start with yourself and your LST team…

  26. Learning Support Teams

  27. Questions?

  28. Lunch – back at 12:45

  29. News n’ Notes

  30. “Give Me Five”- Icebreaker! • In a 5 minute timeframe your task is to meet and find 5 different people (who are not sitting at your table) who shares one of the five statements with you. • Each of you then write other person’s name below the line of the numbered statement you have in common • Continue the process with 4 more people until all 5 statements have matches

  31. How can we build or strengthen our teams at school?

  32. 7 Qualities of a High Performing Team- Laura Lipton • Maintain a clear focus • Embrace a spirit of inquiry • Put data at the center • Honor commitments • Cultivate relational trust • Seek equity • Assume collective responsibility

  33. Article Collaborative Reflective Process • Step 1: Individually read the first summary page • Step 2: With your #1 partner from the “Give Me Five” icebreaker sheet: • Briefly introduce yourselves and share what school you are from • Together read through first article section: “Discussion & Reflection #1: Maintain a Clear Focus- page 2-3” • Upon reading this first section, work collaboratively together in responding to focused questions based upon your point of view or from your school’s perspective in relation to your Learning Support Teams, in the first section at 12 o’clock position on placemat • When time is “up”, thank your partner

  34. You will repeat the above process , as you work your way through each section of the placemat, clockwise for each of the 4 remaining article topical sections: • With your #2 partner from the “Give Me Five” icebreaker: Discussion & Reflection #2: Embrace a Spirit of Inquiry- page 3-4 • With your #3 partner from the “Give Me Five” icebreaker: Discussion & Reflection #3: Put Data at the Center- page 4-5 • With your #4 partner from the “Give Me Five” icebreaker: Discussion & Reflection #4: Honor Commitments & Cultivate Relational Trust- page 5-6 • With your #5 partner from the “Give Me Five” icebreaker: Discussion & Reflection #5: Seek Equity & Assume Collective Responsibility- page 6-8

  35. Back At Your Home Table… • Personal/School Learning Support Team Reflection: • Briefly share “a-ha” moments each of you had as you were discussing article sections with others • As a table group discuss the next action steps that you want to take from the information you have gleaned from this article. • Individually fill in the center box with next step action items that would like to discuss and take back to your own school LST

  36. Diamond Nine:What is most important for your teams?

  37. Break…15 minutes

  38. Team Problem Solving • 10 minutes with team • 10 minutes as a table group

  39. Next Steps • Clarifying your specific goals and strategies. • We will touch base with you at your school.

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