Transcript IEL Presentation

Snapshot – Province of Ontario
Ontario has:
• 40% of Canada’s 33.6 million people (it is the most
populous province)
• 60% of 225,000 immigrants who come to Canada
annually
• Over 1 million square kilometres of land
• 2.1 million students, 27% born outside Canada
• Almost 126,000 teachers (unionized teaching and
support staff)
• About 5,000 schools in 72 school districts
• Funding of $22.8B (CDN) in 2012-13 (45% increase
compared to 2002-03)
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Elementary Outcomes: Achievement Results
125,000 more students at provincial standard
4 key levers for
elementary reform:
1. Improving
classroom
teaching and
learning
2. Improving school
effectiveness
3. Leadership
capacity building
4. Research and
evaluation
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Secondary Outcomes: Achievement Results
6 key levers for
secondary reform:
1. Leadership
infrastructure
2. Engaging and
relevant
programming
3. Effective instruction
4. Focused
Interventions for
students at risk of
not graduating
5. Legislation and
policy development
6. Research, monitoring
and evaluation
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Levers to successful improvement
systems
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A small number of ambitious goals
A guiding coalition at the top
High standards and expectations
Investment in leadership and capacity building
related to instruction
Mobilizing data and effective practices as a
strategy for improvement
Intervention in a non-punitive manner
Reducing distractions
Being transparent, relentless and increasingly
challenging
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Leadership and capacity building related to
instruction – Focus, alignment and coherence
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IEL: Supporting School and System Leadership
District
School Boards
Ministry of
Education
Policy
Collective voice
for the advancement
of evidence-based
leadership practices
in Ontario
Research
Institute
for Education
Leadership
(IEL)
Practice
IEL’s goals support the 3 core priorities of the Ministry
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YOU…
• Personal performance
• Motivated / inspired staff
• Professional growth
• Achieving your goals
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YOU…
• Coach
• Problem-solver
• Project manager
• Strategic planner
• Leader
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ONTARIO’S
LEADERSHIP
FRAMEWORK
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The purposes of the Leadership Framework are to…
• Inspire a shared vision of leadership in schools and
boards
• Promote a common language that fosters an
understanding of leadership and what it means to be
a school and system leader
• Identify the practices and competencies that describe
effective leadership
• Guide the design and implementation of professional
learning and development for school and system
leaders
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Benefits of the Leadership Framework
Common Language
Flexible Approach
Platform for Team-Building
Guide for Professional Learning
Powerful Self-Reflection Tool
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www.education-leadership-ontario.ca
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LINKING ‘WHAT’
TO ‘HOW’
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Linking ‘What’ to ‘How –
• Technical problems reside in the head –
• solving them requires an appeal to the mind, to
• logic, and to the intellect
• Adaptive challenges lie in the heart – solving
• them means changing people’s values, beliefs,
• habits, ways of working, or ways of life
• ~ Heifetz & Linsky, 2004
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THANK YOU!
• Questions
• Comments
• Workshop evaluation
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