SAPPA WORKSHOP – Professor Andy Hargreaves
Professor Andy Hargreaves Articles
- Engagement with learning
- How leaders can respond to the global crisis in the teaching profession
- Professional learning and development that honors students identities
- Promoting Identity in Schools 2023
- The Power of Play
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Andy Hargreaves – 1 day workshop SAPPA Members $150 Non-members $200
Monday 3 March Adelaide Oval 8.30am – 4pm
Professor Andy Hargreaves is Visiting Professor at the University of Ottawa and Research Professor at Boston College. He is a member of the US National Academy of Education, Adviser to the First Minister of Scotland, and the Minister of Education for New Brunswick, Canada.
Andy has published 35 books and has 8 Outstanding Writing Awards. He has been honoured in Canada, the US, Australia, and the UK for services to public education and educational research. His most recent books are Leadership from the Middle; and The Age of Identity (with Dennis Shirley).
You can learn more at www.andyhargreaves.com
Professor Hargreaves’s masterful masterclass will be organized in three sections:
- Innovation, Inclusion and Engagement
You can’t achieve if you’re not engaged. Drawing on his most recent $3m AUD project with the LEGO Foundation that built a network of 41 innovative school teams across Canada to increase pupil engagement and improve wellbeing after COVID-19, Andy will set out how to address and overcome the 5 enemies of pupil engagement – such as top-down standardization, too much technology, irrelevant curriculum, and excess testing – with multiple innovative designs and principles that can green, screen, machine-based and more, that get all kids into school and back learning.
- From Safety to Thriving
COVID rightly raised the profile of wellbeing in schools. But it did this in a misleading way. It mainly focused on care and safety as a support for teaching and learning without also homing in on how to change learning and teaching so both teachers and their kids feel like they are positively thriving. The wellbeing agenda has been driving too much by individualistic, psychological solutions like self-care, self-regulation, and mindfulness, and hasn’t focused enough on the schoolwide and systemwide changes we can make so that everyone feels a whole lot better. This involves things like more autonomy in learning and teaching, better collaboration that digs deeper than fast-moving data teams, innovative projects that make a difference in the world, real world learning outdoors in nature, fewer bureaucratic restrictions, less obsession with testing, and more free space for school-led curriculum projects, and constructive and transformative uses of AI.
If we want to take care of our kids, we must take more care of their educators. And if we want kids to positively thrive in their learning, we need to ensure that educators are positively thriving in their teaching and in their leadership.
- Leadership from the Middle
Increased engagement and improved wellbeing for students and teachers alike in situations of constant change, threat, and unpredictability, call for lightening up of leadership at the top without there being a free-for-all at the bottom. The role of senior leaders in creating the enabling conditions for middle leaders to do what is outlined and the need to empower teachers and leaders so that, in the words of Cold Play, they feel they can “summon up lightning”.
This final session builds on the earlier parts of the day to explore and exemplify how to help middle leaders make the moves in themselves and with their teams to start everyone up and bring them all back in. Seven of these moves will be engaged with collaboratively among the whole group.
