Leadership+Links

==If you attended today, and work in a leadership role in your school or district, we have created this page to allow us to make links between this workshop and our work as leaders in the system. We don't present the following as "assumptions or givens that they are occurring already in your contexts". Rather, we see these as leadership challenges for all of us. We really hope this page will be a //living// collaborative document of our collective work as leaders in different schools and districts. ==

=[|Ontario's Equity and Inclusive Education Strategy] =

This strategy was developed by the Government of Ontario in 2009 with the vision that:

 * ==all students, parents, and other members of the school community are welcomed and respected ==
 * ==every student is supported and inspired to succeed in a culture of high expectations for learning ==

=**School Effectiveness Framework** =

==In Ontario, we have recently developed a tool called the [|School Effectiveness Framework]. It is a resource to help schools engage in dialogue around their work and their students. Some of the indicators relevant to our work in this workshop include: ==

==Indicator 1.3: Students are taught, and regularly use self-assessment skills to monitor their progress toward achieving learning goals, and to set their own learning goals within the context of the Ontario curriculum and/or Individual Education Plan (IEP). (page 13) == ==Indicator 2.4: Job-embedded and inquiry-based professional learning builds capacity, informs instructional practice and contributes to a culture of learning. (page 19) == ==Indicator 3.1: The teaching and learning environment is inclusive and reflects individual student strengths, needs and learning preferences. (page 22) ==

=[|Capacity Series] Points to Consider =

How do we as leaders help support staff to:

 * ==ensure that we honour the cultural capital and multiliteracies of all students? ==
 * ==build safe, inclusive classroom environments that promote risk taking and inquiry? ==
 * ==plan and implement units and tasks that incorporate thought-provoking multimedia and mutlimodal texts? ==

=<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">[|Are We Learners]? =

==<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Richard Williamson has a great blog devoted to leadership and in this [|post]asks us to consider ourselves as learners "in context". How we learn with our teams in ways that engage us as critical thinkers? ==

=<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Our thinking so far : =