Leaders as Inquirers

Aligning my current inquiry foci with my goals for personal and school growth

1)By the end of the year I am working collaboratively alongside teachers in their classrooms in Mathematics and eLearning

• observing
• giving feedback
• focussing on student achievement

so that teachers have a growing understanding of best practice and are raising achievement for their students

2)By the end of the year I am setting up and leading PLD in Mathematics across the school

Run PLD which is easily accessible to all staff  in a variety of ways:

• 1 to 1
• In class - modelling and observations
• Team workshops
• Online

so that teachers are engaged in effective professional learning  

Through the PLD there will be:

• A shift in teachers practice (observations)
• Raised student achievement (use of baseline data)
• Deprivatization of teachers practice and classrooms

Underpinning both of these inquiries is the need to

• build relational trust as discussed here is a core for us as a school that is on our 3rd principal in 18months
• build my ability to have open to learning conversations as discussed by Vivianne Robinson. this is crucial to the development of a shift in teacher mindset to focus on student achivement

One key thing I am hoping will have an impact is ensuring I allocate some of my time to providing in class self selected pld for teachers. I feel this will allow people to build areas of practice that there may not be provision for in the general timetable of school-wide pld.