Manaiakalani Wānanga 2021

 

It's a Manaiakalani Wānanga like never before. Usually, we are in Auckland, however today we find ourselves at the nearby Hornby Primary, in an online forum with people in an online call from all over the country.

Pat Sneddon - Manaiakalani Education Trust Chair 2011-2021

Led in with some data on the wider context of Hospital/ICU Admission statistics who are vaccinated or unvaccinated and the high levels of Māori & Pacifica comparative to Asian and European. High School children who are earning the income for their families while still trying to engage with their learning. It's a whole different world from what we perceive each day. Vaccination is happening at "the speed of trust" We are the trusted people they connect with. 

Research Recommendations - Dr Rebecca Jesson - WFRC; Georgie Hamilton & Kiri Kirkpatrick (Manaiakalani Research Team)

Evaluative Organisational Thinking to Build Effective Reading Pedagogies

1. Interrogate evidence of strengths and needs
2. Identify strategies likely to work, based on research evidence
3. Close interrogation of implementation - so that strategies adjusted to learners’ strengths needs
4. Refine and review

This is all work we already know from John Hattie.

Thinking about these prompts with a reading lens. These have been high Leverage Practices for the last couple of years now.

Questionnaires:

Our Structured Literacy conflicts with the design of the questionnaire by its very design.

Planning for Reading With Intent

• Setting a goal or purpose and generating a series of actions
• The ability to plan accounts for a significant portion of income gap in reading outcomes (Griffin & Friedman, 2007).
• Good readers approach texts in goal-directed ways (Pressley & Lundeberg, 2008)
• Goals interact with working memory. The type of goal you have affects what you remember (Mills, Diehl, Birkmire & Mou, 1995, Lindeholm 2006).Setting a goal means understanding why you are reading so that you can do things while you are reading to make sure your goal is met (Cartwright, 2015, p. 52)

When introducing a text, share purpose, learning intention and strategies. It can be as simple as three sentences. e.g:

“Today we are thinking about how the character develops in Chapter 4. We are learning how to notice how the words used to describe her thinking and feeling. Remember to slow down to notice when actions are impacting on that character.”

Text Selection to Build Knowledge

Up until recently, the selections were not chosen to build knowledge from one lesson to another. The units of study, five or six weekly lessons, were all too frequently a hodgepodge of selections organized under a vague theme, such as serendipity or adventures. Fortunately, the most recent versions of core programs present units of instruction with unified themes and selections that build knowledge over several lessons (LaVenia, 2019).

Link to Rebecca’s junior T-shaped presentation

Link to Literacy Exemplars website

Cultural Representation has shown an increase in Māori and Pasifika representation in text.

Mirrors, Windows and Glass Sliding Doors

To use books as mirrors of the diverse students we teach, we must make sure those books offer as accurate a reflection of them as possible. Identities are never comprised of single descriptors; a student’s identity is a rich mosaic of experiences, values, perspectives, and cultural ways of knowing, being, doing, and communicating. 

If we truly want to share books as mirrors, we need to take the time to know who students are, in as many ways as possible. And then we need to help our students find books that reflect those identities in as many ways as possible, too.

Enriquez, G. (2021). Foggy Mirrors, Tiny Windows, and Heavy Doors: Beyond Diverse Books toward Meaningful Literacy Instruction. Read Teach, 75( 1), 103– 106. https://doi-org.ezproxy.auckland.ac.nz/10.1002/trtr.2030

Teach Learners to Think and Question

Discussion

Extended Discussion is where there are akonga generated discussion which goes around the learner group rather than bouncing in and out from the teacher. It has huge I'm[pact on the learning and needs open ended questions to work effectively. It's been a HLP for at least 3 years, but still isn't clearly evident in the learning experiences.

Relatedly: Oracy video  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ADAY9AQm54

From the research:

• Discussion has an effect size of 0.82

Almarode, J., Hattie, J., Fisher, D., & Frey, N. (2021). Rebounding and reinvesting. Where the evidence points for accelerating learning. A GOLD paper. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin. white-paper-reinvesting-and-rebounding

Critical Literacy

“The goal of critical literacy is to help students focus on uncovering the perspectives and positions that underpin texts, and to ask and judge what these perspectives might mean in terms of the social construction of their world.”

Susan Sandretto. “Planting seeds.” 

Why choice?

We need to be able to transfer from one context to another in order to embed understanding more deeply. The table below explains the effect size that choice has. (Remembering that choice doesn't mean open season and a free-for-all.

There are more than half the observations missing a share component.

Share

The idea of having more than one opportunity to think about what you've learned and rehash the process. It improves working memory. The more times that we can recycle the learning, the more times we get to organise the learning chunks into higher-order patterning. All the research tells us that it is a lever for higher organised thinking.

Learn Create Share:

With an effect size of 1.33, or the potential to more than triple the rate of learning, developing the assessment-capability of our students will provide long-term benefit across multiple contexts and in the face of future challenges. This is the why behind our what.

Almarode, J., Hattie, J., Fisher, D., & Frey, N. (2021). Rebounding and reinvesting. Where the evidence points for accelerating learning. A GOLD paper. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin. white-paper-reinvesting-and-rebounding

When we are picking programmes, we need to be thinking about, How are our programmes helping our teachers to become experts in the subject?

Almarode, J., Hattie, J., Fisher, D., & Frey, N. (2021). Rebounding and reinvesting. Where the evidence points for accelerating learning. A GOLD paper. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin. white-paper-reinvesting-and-rebounding

Existing Resources and Support:

Links to Resources

• Class on Air reading examples

• Teacher case studies (2017)

• Literacy exemplars website

• T-shaped literacy information

• T-shaped literacy teacher info videos

• T-shaped literacy for year 1-3

• T-shaped literacy exemplars spreadsheet

• Developing critical thinking presentation

• Toolkits archive - searchable

• Secondary Support

• Secondary Connects

• MIT inquiries 

• Facilitation team

• Cybersmart site

• Sunshine online - free for Manaiakalani

Learning from each other - successful 2021 PLD

• Cluster Teacher Only Days

• Cluster PLGs

• Cluster PLD

• Cluster Staff meetings

• T3 nationwide staff meeting

• School leader meetings

• Literacy leader meetings

• Education tours (to visit other clusters)

Further Reading

• Almarode, J., Hattie, J., Fisher, D., & Frey, N. (2021). Rebounding and reinvesting. Where the evidence points for accelerating learning. A GOLD paper. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin. Retrieved from https://us.corwin.com/ en-us/nam/white-paper-reinvesting-and-rebounding

• Text analysis and finding evidence in text:

https://nmssa.otago.ac.nz/insights/INSIGHTS_English_Making_Meaning_2019.pdf

• Multimodal text and critical literacy:

https://nmssa.otago.ac.nz/insights/INSIGHTS_English_Multimodal_2019.pdf

• Oracy in the Classroom:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ADAY9AQm54

• Disciplinary Literacy

          https://c3teachers.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Shanahan_Shanahan.pdf

Manaiakalani Innovative Teachers 2021

MIT Website - https://mit.manaiakalani.org/

Janine Bava

Has created an inclusive education site with links to resources which will support learners with particular learning needs, or barriers, and a bank of resources to utilise to enable access to the curriculum.

Migi Siō

Supporting bilingual students who are reading more than two years behind their chronological age. Building vocabulary and word bank.

Manpreet Dhaliwal

Developing Critical Literacy Skills in Learners, through cultivating and facilitating Questioning. The site has information about Critical Literacy for both teachers and learners.

Rebecca Henderson and Sarah Tuiā

Matauranga Pāngarau. - A complete tool This site has Number Knowledge resources for Levels 1-4. (Currently Levels 2-4) The intent of this tool is for independent student use, but directed by the teacher. Please click on the photo below or the following link to check out our tool. 

Kath Roach

Kath has created a website that is meant to be a work in progress with new resources added constantly. She does not profess to be an expert of the Structured Literacy Approach but a teacher wanting to learn more. 

Tim Shawcross

Increasing literacy in a secondary music class context.

Device and Finance Procurement for 2022

The newer models include reinforced charge ports and more secure keys.

The price is great due to the increase in cost for all materials etc.

Looking ahead to 2022

We've been doing this for 6 years and counting now.

Increased sensemaking as ‘real-time’ data becomes available. Growing the team in Literacy support with Maths to follow

The Challenge/Provocation

Research Provocation by Dr Rebecca Jesson (WFRC)

Responding to the challenges:

So... What next?

• Mote: voice notes & feedback - explore how this can be utilised for rewindable learning.
• Push for DFI and Toolkits participants for 2022.
• What opportunities for connection are there with schools such as St Francis os Assisi, in the Te Ara Tūhura cluster to best support our Structured Literacy Journey?
• TAI v SMART Goal? - can we find a more effective "better" way?