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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• The Teaching Delusion: Why Teaching In Our Schools Isn’t Good Enough (And How We Can Make It Better) by Bruce Robertson
• Stop Talking About Wellbeing: A pragmatic approach to teacher workload by Kat Howard

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