Mahi ngātahi: Leading change with others: WSL hui July 30th

We were delighted to welcome Harriette Cowan,  year 1-3 teacher at Ridgway and a new Within School Teacher and Christina Rizos, Senior Head Teacher at the Owhiro Bay Kindergarten, one of the ten ECEs now joined up to our Kāhui Ako.
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Karen lead an inspiring and provocative presentation that led us through thinking about the Potama Pounamu metaphor of mahi ngātahi: “where teachers, learners and whānau share in the power of contributing their own sense-making to the learning of others” --Poutama Pounamu, through understanding the nature of change and finally to think about what what ‘working with’ others looks like in practice and how we can all enhance our next steps in our areas of inquiry. We are aiming at change that may take our colleagues into uncomfortable spaces in the process of creating better learning experiences for our ākonga.

It was exciting to see the WSLs leave with a clearer idea of what their next steps are in their inquiry cycle and food for thinking about how to have rigorous, safe and robust conversations with our colleagues in our own schools. Our ASLs are looking forward to working with the WSLs to help them make sense of the learning and put it into practice.

 

• Links to the slides — this includes notes and research/video links in the notes
  
• Extracts from 'Learning Talk' series (Joan Dalton)