15.2.21 - PLD Meeting Whole Staff - Strategic Plan- New and Old

What is the same? What is different? The key things… what does that mean for us in programmes, teaching and learning. Spending about ½ an hour on this. 

What is most important here.

Sharing back

Similarities:

• Leavers profile

• the focus on the whole child/Pos Ed

• Excellence and inquiry

• This all fall into the vision but it’s expressed in a different way

• All of us being learners -  child and students and whanau

Differences:

• The new one captures the essence on the front - the image to refer to is easier can see the link to Taranaki

• Immediately more engaging

• More simplified? Maybe? In some ways it's not more simple…. There is more unpacking on the pages as they come through the plan… caters to both big ideas and the nitty gritty

• More acknowledgement of place - cultural competencies were more explicit - is this more teacher speak? Rather than speaking all the same language. The key idea here is that all in the community are learners... the how of this is still to come. 

• The whakatauki, sets the idea of collaboration as a way of working.. Fundamentally it's about a vision for a way of working. Whereas in the past there was perhaps confusion.

• Positive education is the bedrock of our kura - wellbeing is needed to be the centre of what we do.

• This new design is a graphic that can be easily understood

So what now:

• We’re looking at integrating the Te Ao Māori lens 

• Through collaborative learning and UDL bring the arts health and p.e in a collaborative model

• Groupings are flexible and mixed ability - not only in the classroom but in workings as learners ourselve (PLD, Triples etc)

• Planning explicitly for engagement and representation so their mana is uplifted.

• What does it mean? We need to get better at UDL..

• No matter what has come before… each day is a new day and restoration of mana is important

• Cultural competencies - This thinking has begun in teams, making sure our understanding is shared and deeply understood by all. We will need to keep these things in mind and alive.

• How do we bring our community together with us… How does our community experience our school? The journey through Autahi - Seniors

• How can we share our story - aligned messaging always -  we need to be concise and clear with our community

We will be coming back to this...