Vision Project

retrieved from Catherine Nickerson's personal files

PROPOSAL

PURPOSE

  • To continue the work being done in the LLC last year around communication.
  • Last year I engaged in communication with parents, the community and the TL community in the Kelowna area with a video outlining the work being done in the ASM library learning commons.  You can see the video above.
  • As I engage in a spiral of inquiry around how to indigenize the LLC I hope to use the learning plan page as a digital artifact to communicate and reflect upon the process.

ACTION ITEMS

  • Arrange a meeting with the vice principal to be taught how to blog on the district school website page. (DONE)
  • Gain passwords and access to the site (DONE)
  • Move some key entries from the LLC website blog over to the learning plan page to begin. (DONE)  http://www.asm.sd23.bc.ca/CLP/Our%20Inquiry%20Process/Math/default.aspx#/
  • Engage in a spiral of inquiry around indigenizing the LLC (upcoming staff meeting)
  • Attend the district professional development entitled Stories of our SQILX ways. (registered)
  • Attend workshop called Champions of Change: Tools to ignite classroom transformation (registered)
  • Document the learning on the learning plan page (to be ongoing)

AUDIENCE

  • The school community.  Students at the LLC website.  Parents, teachers, administrators and board members on the learning plan page.

GUIDING THE LEARNING

  • Each year we have tackled a new standard from the Leading Learning Framework.  This year we are focusing on "Advancing the learning community to achieve school goals: LLC leadership team develops clear goals to align programs with school goals and share and showcase teaching and learning achievement."(Leading Learning, 2014)
  • The LLC programming will continue to focus on building horizontal connections.  "The learning environment strongly promotes horizontal connectedness across areas of knowledge and subjects as well as to the community and to the wider world." (OECD, 2010)
  • A spiral of inquiry will be used to involve the classroom teachers, library staff, aboriginal advocate, and administrators. "It is though a disciplined approach to collaborative inquiry, resulting in new learning and new action, that educators, learners, their families and involved community members will gain the confidence, the insights, and the mindsets required to design new and powerful learning systems." (Timperley, Kaser & Halbert, 2014)


Canadian Library Association. (2014). Leading Learning: Standards of Practice for School Library Learning Commons in Canada. 

Timperley, H., Kaser, L., & Halbert, J. (2014).  A framework for transforming learning in schools: Innovation and the spiral of inquiry. Centre for Strategic Education Seminar Series 234.

Center for Educational Research and Innovation (2010) The Nature of Learning: Using Research to Inspire Practice OECD Publications.




Comments

  1. Aaron MuellerNovember 11, 2019 at 6:03 AM

    This was a good project overview of your final vision. You did an excellent job outlining the status of your project, where it fits into your multi-year school community inquiry project and also some goals for the final vision. Your video from last year is fantastic and a great place to build from, as well as the work you've been doing on the spirals of inquiry. Overall, a good brainstorming and planning post of your progress so far and next steps.

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  2. Natalee OlsenNovember 19, 2019 at 8:10 PM

    Communication is so important in schools! I love that you are updating your website to be communication focussed. So much gets lost in translation when going to teachers to students to parents and vice versa. I am also really interested in the steps you are taking to Indigenize your library and the professional development you are doing with your local band. Oral story telling is such an important part of many first nations histories and can be so engaging! Our district has various Aboriginal Education Kits that you can borrow, but they are hard to get your hands on. I was speaking with a teacher today who emailed over a month ago, finally heard back with some available dates, and was then told that the kits had already been booked the next day and they wouldn't be available again until the spring. Creating resources and a space in your library for Aboriginal resources is such an amazing idea!

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