Transformational Learning Demonstrated in "Inspired Global Citizenship"
What’s Happening in this Image?
WHY: In Institute 3 of the Inspire Citizens Master Teacher Endorsement, our cohort has started 2021 by spending two weeks diving into the fantastic book Moving Beyond Busy by Greg Curtis. The book is a concise, practical, and urgent reminder of first identifying transformational learning goals as the why of any school prior to falling into the traps of new fads, initiatives, and professional learning without demonstrable future-focused learning goals. Often, we strategically plan first, checking boxes for new initiatives and operations that are otherwise disjointed from future-focused evidence of learning as well as lofty missions and visions. This systemic educational trap results in dispersed energies, unsustainable busyness, and sometimes the burnout and demoralization of educators and students.
Committing to exploring and reflecting on qualitative data learned from student evidence around the demonstration of these critical transformational goals, schools and educators can build innovative learning experiences and assessments that are future-focused and student-centered in response to our volatile, uncertain, and complex present and future.
WHAT: Above, the mind map builds from three key components of providing a transformative learning framework for the Inspire Citizens’ Future Now Leadership student certification:
Transformative learning goals (TLGs). In this model, the transformative learning goal is inspired leadership and global citizenship.
Four performance areas have been identified as pillars of the TLG, which also tie smoothly into the Empathy to Impact enhanced inquiry, action, and design cycle: Practicing Compassion, Critical Thinking, Creative Problem Solving, and Taking Informed Action
Finally each performance area has performance indicators - pathways for demonstration of this deeper learning that sheds light upon proficiency with TLGs.
HOW: Moving Beyond Busy outlines a thoughtful and purposeful approach that includes auditing school missions and visions, establishing transformational learning goals, and reimagining assessment and strategic planning in response to evidence of student learning both in short term and long term school development. The quote from the book below, combined with the PZ thinking routine in the slide, can launch you into an examination of what matters most in learning for 2021-2030. However, your best success is in implementing Greg Curtis’ I-O-I approach and following his tested ideas while reading the book with colleagues as a poignant HOW to transform learning and student agency to learn and take positive action in our challenging world.
Another example of transformational learning goals and performance areas from Beijing City International School’s Ideate HS program.