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| 5 Principles of Dynamical Systems |
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Definition
1. More data do not lead to better predictions.
2. Everything influences everything else.
3. Tiny events create major disturbances.
4. You don't have to touch everyone to make a difference. 5. Both things and energy matter. |
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5 Elements of a Professional Learning Community
"...a collective sense of responsibility for student learning in restructured schools." |
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Definition
1. Shared norms and values
2. Collective focus on student learning
3. Collaboration
4. Deprivatized practice
5. Reflective dialogue |
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7 Norms of Collaborative Work
Everyone uses to improve collaboration. |
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Definition
1. Pausing
2. Paraphrasing
3. Probing for specificity
4. Putting ideas on the table
5. Paying attention to self and others
6. Presuming positive intentions
7. Pursuing a balance between advocacy and inquiry |
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Term
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Definition
| Developing a staff's capabilities for talking together professionally is no panacea, but it may represent one of the single most significant investments that faculties can make for student learning. |
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Term
| 4 key questions to guide Successful Meetings |
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Definition
1. Who decides?
2. What topics are ours?
3. What meeting room features will support our work?
4. What are the meeting standards? |
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Term
| 1st 4 Benefits of Professional Learning Communities |
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Definition
1. Increase commitment to the mission and goals of a school
2. Share responsibility for the total development of students and collective responsibility for students' success
3. Increase meaning and understanding of the content that teachers teach
4. Improve the likelihood that teachers will be more satisfied and invigorated |
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DuFour's 3 Big Ideas that represent the core principles of learning communities: |
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Definition
1. ensuring that students learn,
2. creating a culture of collaboration,
3. focusing on results.
Guiding Questions
*What do we want students to learn?
*How will we know students have learned it?
*What will we do when they don't? |
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| **Dialog extends a group's understanding of the complexities and connections an issue might have with other ideas or events. It requires that group members suspend their judgment, monitor their internal experience, display their reasoning and inquire into the thinking of others. Understanding is the goal and is reached through surfacing group members' ideas and examining them deeply. |
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| **Discussion is for making decisions. In discussion, group members try to take a detached view of what is happening with the group in order to participate effectively and to arrive at decisions. To effectively reach decisions, groups must separate people from ideas. Ideas should belong to the group, rather than to individuals. |
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| Elements of Successful Meetings |
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Definition
*Meetings should be safe, but not always comfortable, and that cognitive conflict should not become affective conflict where disagreements become personal and the effectiveness of the team is reduced.
*Roles for meeting participants, facilitator, recorder, role authority, and engaged participant. |
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Benefits of Professional Learning Communities
5-9 |
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Definition
5. Reduce teacher isolation
6. Increase teachers' commitment to making lasting and significant change
7. Reduce the student drop-out rate and absenteeism
8. Improve students' academic gains
9. Reduce the gaps between students from different backgrounds |
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