ALL Collaborative Inquiry Acceleration

An interesting workshop on what collaborative inquiry is and what it should look like in a school. Just a few notes I made of what stood out for me.

Simin Sinek - The golden circle WHY? How? What?

Clear expectations lead to productiveness.

3 types of inquiring:

Spiral of Inquiry Focusing on what they can't do.
Teaching as Inquiry Focusing on what they can't do.
Appreciative Inquiry working from the point of what they can do.

Scanning Phase: (Framing the problem) This could take 1 term.
Stock Take
- Student Voice
- Whanau Voice
- Literacy: Writing
                  Reading
                  Oral Lang
- Evaluate ~ LLP
- Student Daya ~easttle
                        ~ RRecords
                        ~ PACT
What will come out of this collaboratively as to what we need to focus on?

What's your data once you have all the data? What's your theory of action? What are the activities that are going to help you get to your desired outcome?
e.g. If you want Spelling to be on the right level across the school - you will work towards actioning all teachers hearing and saying the sounds the same.

Sphere of Control

Determining a meaningful focus:
Choose your questions really carefully.
Is the focus based on identified student needs?
Is it connected to a shared vision?
Is it addressing problems individuals can act on? 

The collaborative inquiry needs people that are willing to deprivatize their teaching, willing to share their successes and their mistakes, being videoed, etc. If they are not willing to do that, they cannot be in the collaborative inquiry team, because the team has an end goal, and cannot waste time on debating whether you should or should not be videoed. All in or out. In the end, what happens with the knowledge at the end of the inquiry? How is it influencing school-wide vision? What are we doing with the knowledge?