Oct 21 Spirals of Inquiry – Dr. Judy Halbert & Dr. Linda Kaser – a YTE event
Monday, October 21
12:00 – 1:00 pm
Scarfe 310
Dr. Judy Halbert & Dr. Linda Kaser
How can a spiral of inquiry approach be useful in teacher education and in ongoing professional learning?
How is inquiry shifting practices through networks and through the use of a research--informed spiral of inquiry strategy?
How are BC educators becoming involved with the 7 learning principles from the OECD’s The Nature of Learning – and how could participation in the Innovative Learning Environments initiative (along with educators from around the world) help to transform BC educational practices?
Dr. Judy Halbert and Dr. Linda Kaser are co-leaders of Networks of Inquiry and Innovation and the Aboriginal Enhancement Schools Network. They have served as principals, district leaders and policy advisors with the Ministry of Education in the areas of innovative leadership, district change, rural education, literacy and Aboriginal education. They are co-directors of the Centre for Innovative Educational Leadership at Vancouver Island University where they currently teach graduate programs in educational leadership. They are also the Canadian representatives to the OECD international research program on Innovative Learning Environments.
Linda and Judy are the co-authors of Spirals of Inquiry (2013), Leadership Mindsets: Innovation and Learning in the Transformation of Schools (2009) and Leading Professional Inquiry with Helen Timperley (in press, 2014). They have worked intensively with educators in every part of BC.