In today’s workshop we devoted the time for school leading teams to continue to co- write their Case Study to relate their 2025 collaborative inquiry goal for improvement. School teams identified and articulated the key components to include in their narrative and refined drawing the components together to communicate their learning to others in the network of schools.

This provided the opportunity for your school teams to begin compiling your Case Study relating to your inquiry goal focus for improvement you identified at the beginning of this school year.

We unpack the Assessment Waterfall Framework. We focus on the components Descriptive Feedback and student Goal Setting along with the process of implementing ‘5 Questions’ for students, teachers and parents as a means to gather reliable research data from community voice.

Reviewing the impact of your school’s inquiry using a range of data sources.

• How do you know your inquiry has had the intended impact?
• What has surfaced within the data that leads to further inquiry and needing development or action?
• Though the eyes of ākonga, what are they saying about the progress they have made and/or how they’ve contributed to the intended changes?

In this practical session we experienced how to use the case-management meeting approach to ensure that teaching practices are based on teachers’ evidence based student learning data. The session honed in on what leading actions are required to set the conditions for professional conversations that result in clearly defined next steps to meet students’ learning needs.

What does it look like when we show leadership to enable and support effective decision making throughout the school?

We focused on explicit leadership in relation to our term focus of ‘The ‘How’ of Sustaining Collective Leadership Inquiry to Make a Difference’. We introduced the critical importance of using listening skills to support enhancing school improvement work.