Essential questions: planning for success
System support
Is there anything else you need to build into your plan to ensure success?
Note: Your school may have resources that you will use in this process.
Professional learning to support personal and team goals
Personal support
- What planning tools, scaffolds and resources are available to your school to use in the planning process? Do you have tools for analysis, target setting, plan development and evaluation? Who can assist in this stage? Do you have partners/consultants available to assist in this process?
- What are the specific goals and targets (long term)? What are your immediate goals?
- What are your desired outcomes? How will you know when you have achieved them?
- Who will lead this process?
- How will you ensure that you have the right people on board? How will you engage teachers, parents and leaders? What role do you see for students?
- What is the timeline (short and long term)?
Is there anything else you need to build into your plan to ensure success?
Note: Your school may have resources that you will use in this process.
Professional learning to support personal and team goals
- What immediate professional learning is required to meet the project challenges?
- How will you ensure the development of essential practice skills with a significant component of collaboration and professional dialogue (peer coaching, mentoring, shadowing, action learning, lesson study, instructional rounds or action research) ?
- What resources are needed if this professional learning is to have an impact in the classroom?
- What strategies will you employ to build a whole school culture of innovation?
Personal support
- Who will support your learning? critical friend? peer? expert (both internal and external)? academic partner? See this document for more ideas around active learning partnerships.
- How will you know if the learning is appropriate and successful?