Friday, 28 February 2020

Community Planning Team Mid-Year Work session

Our multi-stakeholder Community Planning Team met for the second time this academic year. The charge for this meeting was to reach clarity and understanding at the year midpoint, on all of the pathway goals being undertaken this year. In addition, the Planning Team was tasked with the refinement and exploration of our objectives for the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools (MSA) accreditation and self assessment.

The goal and the work of the year was described by each pathway leader, and clarifying questions were sought to support the continued insight of the Planning Team in the work of the Futures Plan. Pathway leaders were also given feedback, that serves to inform both the pathway tasks as they continue this year, and the goals and action plans in the year to come.


In the final session of the day, under the guidance of team facilitators and our MSA coordinators, we unpacked, explored, and reconstructed the student performance objectives and organisational capacity objectives that will make up our action plan for re-accreditation. It is with warm gratitude that I express my thanks to all involved in the sessions for the day, and it was another opportunity to see multiple groups working coherently towards our goals in this area, with the team working attitude I have come to expect, and continue to vastly appreciate, within our AISC community. See the slide deck here, and feel free to ask any of our team members about the work of the Community Planning Team.




Friday, 7 February 2020

Teaching and Learning in a New Decade

On the 23rd and 30th of January 2020, Sherriden Masters and Dan Love hosted a two-part, back to back, conversation with parents and community members on the future of teaching and learning as we move into a new decade.

We began by highlighting and signposting the drivers that we are recognising in a global context, in society in general, and then specifically in education. This was followed by a deeper dive into the signals that we are now seeing as a result of these drivers, again in education in general, and then more specifically in our work at AISC. Finally, we organised a dialogue around our Futures Plan (linked in the sidebar to the left) and how our work in the Vision for an AISC Learner Pathway, and our emergent work in Competency-Based Education.


Both sessions were recorded as a tool for future use, and are available to watch by anyone who would like to know more about our perspectives on the future of learning.


The sessions were also informed by a wealth of recent research from Knowledgeworks, OECD, Mckinsey, and the World Economic Forum. The source reports from these organisations can be found collected in a zipped file linked below.