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Dr. Kulvarn Atwal has been a head teacher for 8 years, educator for 20. He is the Author of The Thinking School: Developing a Dynamic Learning Community
- Great variation in teachers who had good attitudes and wanted to improve.
- Interested in finding out how to help every teacher be excited to learn.
- Focusing our energies on teacher professional learning.
- The way you impact learning is by hiring amazing teachers.
- Implementing dynamic learning communities.
- Maximizing informal learning.
- What is informal learning.
- More learning takes place socially in an institution than formally.
- Every person is trained as a coach.
- Average teacher stops improving after their third year of teaching.
- Communities of Practice
- Getting better has to be part of the culture of the school.
- Expansive professional learning
- I’m not going to participate in any judgment or lesson observations.
- Engage in collaborative action research projects.
- Done this in three different schools.
- If their traditional role was to judge and now they need to coach, it’s very difficult to adjust.
- How to be a transformative principal? Empowerment of practitioners.
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