Fave Quotes: The best research that any educator can do or tap into, is knowing and understanding the learners that they serve. Everything else is secondary (George Couros).
Personal Leadership Qualities: Engaging in creating meaningful opportunities for collective growth; constant modelling of building individual capacity, including pursuing doctoral studies
Reflection: While students are at the centre of our focus for improving our practices, learners are defined as everyone in the school community. For all of us to realize our greatest capacities in life, every day and every interaction are to be seen as opportunities to learn. Based on Helen Timperley’s research in creating understanding of learning needs, we must: 1) seek evidence that is clearly related to issues, with inquiry mindsets and proper examination; 2) process our explorations through respect of content and embracing its challenge, while being open to support from experts’ knowledge. In my doctoral studies, the research that I encounter is supporting my decision making and acting as a leader. I approach education as a way to create equity; learners must be invited and involved in our responding to their needs.
Evidence:
- Aligning all learning with School Education Plan and responding to School Annual Results Reports
- Collaborating with Learning Leads on focus, resources used, and experts accessed
- Implemented Professional Growth Plan Model that fosters inquiry, action research, and meaningful application of learning
- Accessing experts in fields to support collective growth: Adaptive Schools (Dr. Cal Hauserman); Agile Schools (Dr. Simon Breakspear); Assessment and Learning (Myron Dueck); Decolonization and Indigenization (Dr. Dustin Louie); People Skills (George Myers)
- Scanning the environment for opportunities for individuals to personalize their learning and supporting participation
- Always delivering professional learning in ways that model for staff to implement in own practices to engage learners
- Self-involvement in certifications, educational leadership and impacting change seminars / courses (Educational Leadership Academy for 7 summers), social media networks, and trainings
- Through multiple presentations internally and externally, extensive experience as Professional Learning facilitator