This project integrates work in four different areas: knowledge mobilization, Assessment for Learning, professional learning for conceptual change, and mathematics education.
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Knowledge mobilization in this project will begin right at the beginning of the project. The team will work to create new knowledge together and to find ways to engage others in the process of creating their own understanding of Assessment for Learning , especially in numeracy and mathematics in ways that trigger conceptual change.
The GTA PNC is already very committed to knowledge mobilization and sharing learning across all of the GTA PNC boards through: (1) artifacts ; (2) an electronic share point ; and (3) face-to-face meetings . In this project, the team will use these processes to move their development work into the districts that are part of this network centre . At the end of the project, the GTA PNC will convene a meeting with representatives from all of the member districts to highlight learning cases and engage in reflection with the team on the successes and the challenges that they have faced, as well as in planning for the next steps in the GTA PNC and beyond. The latter will involve both creating space for developing local implementation plans for mobilizing the learning within each member board’s professional learning strategy, and it will also move to take up the learning in the established cross PNC network-to-learning channels. In this way, there is potential for every school district in Ontario to benefit from this project.