New podcast episode now available!

Creating Thinking Systems
Part 2: A conversation with senior leaders from Bluewater District School Board

If you’re anything like our guests in this special podcast series, you're thinking about how to approach school improvement in critically thoughtful ways. Maybe you’re working on the next steps to enhance administrators’ abilities to examine data and how to effectively monitor progress towards your district’s goals. Or perhaps you’re reflecting on how you might nurture greater cohesion, alignment, and intentionality on your senior team. Even as you find rest and rejuvenation during the summer months, we know you’re already thinking and planning with your teams about what you want to tweak and fortify about your work next year!

In the series Creating Thinking Systems, sponsored by OPSOA (Ontario Public Supervisory Officers’ Association), Usha James, TC² Executive Director, talks to senior leaders about their journeys and how taking a critical inquiry approach has guided system change and improvement.

In this second episode of the series, Usha welcomes two guests from the Bluewater District School Board in Ontario:

• Lori Wilder, Director of Education
• Wendy Louwerse, Superintendent of Education

Together, they describe their journeys in creating a district-wide thinking system. The use of a critical inquiry question ("How can we continuously identify, plan for, and effectively respond to support the learners for whom our current practices are not working?") has led to increased alignment and a common language. They highlight the need for data literacy, instructional leadership, and a focus on student needs.

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