e5+Project



During the leadership development program, partcipants will work on a network group challenge and develop an action plan to manage/solve the problem. Each Network Group will develop an action plan based on the literature on effective schools and leadership and its applicability in the context of the Network. The plan will include:
 * A contextual analysis
 * Identification of a challenge/improvement focus within the network; and
 * The articulation of a plan to manage/solve the challenge or improvement focus.

The group will document the action undertaken to address the challenge or improvement focus and then conduct an evaluation. This challenge will provide opportunities for the group to improve team performance skills, to explore their network environment and to address a local challenge or improvement focus.

The following is a link to a background report into the E5 Instructional Model. []

The following is from an email via John Sloan. (NB - as he stated, this is not his original work) 

E5 INSTRUCTIONAL MODEL E5 Instructional Model is a framework for purposeful teaching and describes the interactions that take place within a classroom between the teacher, the student and the content using five descriptors - Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate and Evaluate.  The instructional model is based on five phases of instruction and a developmental continuum that provides profiles of quality instructional practice at increasing levels of proficiency. The model is comprised of three main components: the five phases of instruction, teaching capabilities and profile statements for each phase.

It focuses on instruction and the teacher delivery that occurs in the classroom. The instructional model is inextricably linked to teacher knowledge base, thoughtful curriculum planning, the development of a responsive learning environment, positive relationships, and teacher reflection and collaboration. It is designed to support teachers in engaging in purposeful teaching. In focussing on purposeful teaching, the Instructional Model will draw from the Principles of Learning and Teaching P-12 (PoLT) and reflect the Student Learning Assessment Advice. The model is applicable across all curriculum areas and stages of learning.

The model provides a common language for school leaders and teachers to describe and discuss quality instruction. It supports teachers and school leaders to define and develop their knowledge around high quality instruction, thereby enhancing teacher capacity to improve student learning. It assists school leaders and teachers to reflect on teaching practice.

The model provides a focus for ongoing performance and development discussions, supporting purposeful and personalised teacher professional learning to assist teachers to increase their proficiency in particular capabilities. 

Notes from the Principal Network Meeting. . .thanks to Renae for typing them up :) Sandhurst  Network - Leaders in the Making     
 * Must Do’s ||
 * * Engage / Explore
 * Create a sense or urgency (enthusiasm?) amongst staff that this is needed
 * Introduce the ‘concept’ first – sow the seeds ||
 * * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Develop a survey to find out where staff are ‘right now’
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Assess where people are at – know your audience
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Identify prior understanding ||
 * * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Demystify the concept
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Keep it simple
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Staff need to become familiar with the model ||
 * * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Start from what you know
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Keep in context next to practice
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Get staff to identify what they already do
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Provide a context for why it is being implemented and how current practice fits in
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Audit curriculum, skills and current practice
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Demonstrate where e5 already fits into the curriculum and pedagogical journey of staff
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Build into unit planners
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Embed into current practise so it becomes a tool to improve, not an ad on ||
 * * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Links to AIP / Strategic plan
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Make links to existing DEECD Frameworks (P&D Culture, effective Schools model, Professional Learning Model, Developmental Framework)
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Use the teacher capacity framework to initiate discussion around teaching and learning
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Make sure there is an element of accountability, i.e build it into teacher development plans, whole school strategic plan, planning documents etc
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Make sure the relationship to the other frameworks is clear (e.g. PoLT)
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Use PoLT survey or develop a similar one
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Use data to give reason / purpose (student learning)
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Build a sense of; What (context), How (PoLT, e5, Teacher Behaviour) and The Learner (students) ||
 * * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Develop shared understandings
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Build a common language
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Gradually introduce the language
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Must demonstrate
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Samples ||
 * * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Use the document
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Articulate where the support materials are
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Identify potential reading on e5
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Clarify what e5 is / reading, where it came from
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Provide access to documents (PDF?)
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Involve outside expertise if possible to foster the importance of this model
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Support material
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Access outside (e.g. regional) expertise ||
 * * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Start with whole staff
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Involve all staff ||
 * * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Small team approach – identify change agents
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Identify staff who can support and facilitate the introduction / implementation (change agents)
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Identify a core group of individuals who are willing participants
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">As a team – develop a unit of work
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Discuss in units and plan strategies (do this NOW!)
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Select a professional learning team to provide support, knowledge etc to give the initiative some momentum
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">People leading it MUST understand it
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Have a leader with a clear understanding of what e5 is ||
 * * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Demonstrate a positive personal commitment
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Involve leadership
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Build the tool into the framework of school leadership (Sergio) ||
 * * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Understand it is a teaching model, not a learning model
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Implement this in universities so it is embedded ||
 * * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Staff development – PD
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Time needs to be allocated to the process including staff and unit meetings
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Staff commitment or ‘day in’
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Planned PD with appropriate support materials ||
 * * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Hasten slowly
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Gradual introduction – sow the seed
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Can be developed over time
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Develop a timeline ||
 * * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Break it down into manageable pieces
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Break to down into chunks then pair, share, compare
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Activity based
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Short, sharp activities that capture staff interest ||
 * * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Self – assess using e5
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Design a reflective process to ensure staff have time to look at their own and each others practise (trials) ||
 * * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">$$$ ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; text-align: center;">What to Avoid ||
 * * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Not having a strategic implementation plan ||
 * * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Not reading the document and agree on definitions (what it looks like) before presenting ||
 * * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Not another add on
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Forcing this on staff without developing understanding
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">We have to do this – imposition
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Staff being ‘done to’
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Scaring people off by overwhelming them
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Avoid doing it on the work already being done
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Seeing it as additional (new / above / beyond) other models, especially PoLT – this is a construct of teacher behaviour
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Seeing it as additional work load – it should make our job easier! ||
 * * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Don’t launch as the next best thing
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Don’t commence with an apology
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Create an impression there is a deficit needing to be filled
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Prioritise it (make sure it is appropriate because in some instances you are challenging some teachers and their approaches) ||
 * * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Overload staff with information
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Don’t introduce the whole poster – it looks scary!
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Do too much too quickly
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Timing, do it at a time which ‘makes sense’ (consider other things staff have to do)
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Don’t avoid exploration and investigation ||
 * * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Assume that all members of staff will come on board at the same time
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Expecting it to happen unsupported
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Try and get everyone on board at once – start with the early adapters and letting them influence works much more effectively ||
 * * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Seeing it as separate / isolated from other aspects of education
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Not enough exploration / explanation
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">See it as only a planning tool ||
 * * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Persevere ||
 * * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">System type speak
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Misconceptions about language / structure
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Only relating it to the classroom ||
 * * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Not taking the time
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Speeding
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Go too fast
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Impose it too quickly – let people explore, discuss then revisit it ||
 * * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Do not imply that what has come before has no value ||
 * * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Lack of funding and time ||
 * Successful Strategies / approaches that have worked in the past. ||
 * * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">If it is directly related to affecting student outcomes – teachers will give it a try
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Create a sense of need among teachers ||
 * * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Whole school understandings
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Common understandings
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Make the framework evident in the classroom to support a common language with staff and students
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Focus on what it means for staff / students – how will it help them? ||
 * * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Brainstorm together
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">This works for me – staff sharing
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Discuss, implement then share process
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Identify effective change agents
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Strong and unrelenting communication
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Do not underestimate the power of conversation ||
 * * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Having those initial chats with staff who are potential blockers can be valuable
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Acknowledge some will struggle with the journey – offer support
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Expectation that all staff will be involved ||
 * * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Context approach – from the known
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Reflection by individuals / teams around context practice
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Challenging reflection
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Ongoing reflection and evaluation
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Instructional model – teaching model
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Small groups and hands on to build understanding ||
 * * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Make the process easy to use
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Introduce gradually for yourself and staff ||
 * * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Leadership Team
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Continually involve leadership – keep updated an seek feedback
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Develop a core group who are willing to participate initially
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">An individual won’t facilitate whole school change
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Incorporate into the coaching program
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Share leadership and let others introduce concepts
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Small project team
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Let teams look at it in relation to their area of the school
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Train the trainer model
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Clear responsibilities ||
 * * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Take time – set timelines and goals
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Include individual development plans
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Use action research to work together, plan, implement, reflect and evaluate - then plan further changes
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Introduce slowly – give other people time to work through it
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Plan sustained introduction and implementation built into other processes (e.g. P.R.P’s) ||
 * * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Small teams to audit current practice ||
 * * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Build into P.R.P’s ||
 * * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Link to PD
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">School visits
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Possibility of linking to other schools ||
 * * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">$$$ / Time (Some call it bribery) ||
 * * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Celebrate achievement and sharing ||