Background:

In his leadership research, Michael Fullan shares with us that sometimes we need to go ‘outside’ to become stronger ‘inside’. The ‘Calgary and Area’ High School Redesign Network Day is designed to help us do exactly that – interact with others so that we might learn from diverse perspectives to help inform our own journeys in redesign. Each Network Day will begin with sharing around two key topics that will help create understandings and opportunities for richer conversations related to the themes for our focused conversation blocks. In each of these blocks, participants and school teams are encouraged to find the focused conversations that matter most to them, and to take their new learnings from these engagements back to their schools and regions as a catalyst to explore current practices with new information.

Schedule:

9:00am-10:15am     Welcome

 Personalizing Learning Through Community Partnerships Panel Presentation

  Calgary Board of Education: Bradey Thompson

  Calgary Catholic School District: Steve Pentingola and Rock Goldade

  Southern Alberta Institute of Technology: Rozlynn Wick

  University of Calgary: Christine Johns

10:15am-10:30am   Coffee

10:30am-11:10am   How Can We Utilize a Collective Impact Approach to Support High School Completion?

Presentation by Craig Foley, Director, Signature Initiatives for the United Way of Calgary and Area

11:15am-12:15pm   Focused Conversation 1

12:15pm-1:00pm     Lunch

1:00pm-2:00pm      Focused Conversation 2

2:00pm-2:15pm      Coffee

2:15pm-3:15pm      Focused Conversation 3

Themes for Focused Conversations include Meaningful Connections/Relationships, Transitions, Student Supports, and Community Partnerships to Support Learning.