School Leaders PLG Term 3

Each term we have a leader from our schools meet together to learn from one another.  We call this a Professional Learning Group (PLG). 

In term 3 we had representatives from all but three schools and had a worthwhile day of learning, creating and sharing. 
For our School Leaders PLG we met at Awapuni School in their newly renovated school hall. A great space, thank you.
Below are some snapshots of areas we focussed on in the day.

Mrs Torrie in full flight with our School Leaders

 Barriers, Enablers and Deliberate Leadership Actions

Are our learners engaging deeply with cluster-agreed transformative digital pedagogies:
learn, create, share?

We dug into this question in pairs to see what the barriers and enablers might be in each of our schools. These ideas were shared on a collaborative sheet for all to see.

We then considered the deliberate leadership actions that could be used to help our learners towards the deep engagement we are seeking. 

One action, as an example, is: "Sit alongside staff who may come on board instead of expecting them to express interest in a staff meeting"

Class on Air

We looked at an example of Class on Air together 

Learn, Create, Share is unpacked to a great depth in these examples with the Visible Teaching on a site and then Visible Learning on individual learner blogs. In between this visibility, the walls of the classroom are opened right up with videos of the teacher actually teaching the learners in their class. The teacher reflects on the process and then repeats for another learning timepoint.

Teachers checking out Class on Air

Connext Trust Update

Jo Haughey updated us on progress with the Connext Trust. The Trust is currently working on recruitment with three positions being filled shortly and tagged to start in 2019.

They are also finalising device procurement for learners for 2019. The idea is that each learner in the schools can lease to own a device for their learning so that there is one type of device in schools across a year level. This brings equity and consistency - everyone knows how one device works, can become expert in this device and the teacher and learner can be confident that the device will work as expected - at least as reliably as a book.

Facilitators and Teacher in action

Create

We created potential logos for our cluster of schools. The images below are linked to the G+ Community where these logos are shared.

Next Professional Learning Group

We will have our next School Leaders Professional Learning Group (PLG) on 25 October at Gisborne Intermediate School.