📑 Key concepts for leading professional learning

Bookmarked Key concepts for leading professional learning (the édu flâneuse)

This week I presented to a group of school leaders about leading professional learning. Part of my preparation for the presentation took me back to the roots of my work in this space, and those concepts I have come across that have stuck with me, become part of my thinking, and continue to anchor my work. I explain some of these below, in addition to others I discussed on the day, such as trust, context, teacher expertise, and teacher agency, self-determination and self-efficacy.

Deborah Netolicky shares her thoughts on the key concepts associated with professional learning:

  • Holonmy – “each person is both an independent individual and an interdependent part of the larger system”
  • Holding Environment: “culture of high care and high challenge”
  • Meaningful Collaboration – “clear shared purpose, collective accountability, collaborative norms, a focus on data to inform, and protocols for collaborative ways of working”
  • Semantic Space – “Talk defines and drives emotions, relationships, belonging and action”

It is interesting to think about this against a framework like Modern Learning Canvas and its discussion of strategies, culture and pedagogical beliefs.

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