This document discusses the Spirals of Inquiry framework for transforming learning in schools through collaborative teaching and inquiry. It provides an overview of the phases of scanning, focusing, developing hunches, learning, taking action, and checking, and emphasizes the importance of involving learners, whānau, and communities. Various tools and methods are presented for each phase, such as learner maps for scanning, developing top ideas through brainstorming, and using data to identify themes and develop hunches. Collective professional learning and the development of agency through collaborative inquiry are positioned as key.

1. Collaborative Teaching as Inquiry
using Spirals of Inquiry
http://bit.ly/1smF1U7

5. Spirals of Inquiry - how can we
learn more about what to do?

6. A Framework for Transforming Learning in
Schools: Innovation & the Spiral of Inquiry
Developing collective professional agency: collaborative
inquiry matters
Grounded in learning science knowledge

7. The involvement of learners & whānau & communities
- underpinning and permeating each of the phases
Consultation versus Partnership

8. A shift from learner voice to learner agency
“Letting” versus Letting go

9. In Groups http://bit.ly/1JOTLHi
Read your allocated section of the paper and
report back to whole room about that phase…
1. what’s new?
2. what’s interesting?
3. what is a question you have?

10. Liz’s Story & Leading Spirals Work
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11. The Seven Principles of Learning
Cognition - perceptions of
competence, self-regulated learning,
challenge
Emotion - belonging, knowing,
talanoa, self-esteem
Biology - behavioural, physical
The LEARNER: Engaged or Not Engaged?

12. The Amazing Toolkit!!
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13. Explore the Toolkit
Consider each phase of the Spirals of Inquiry and use the A3
template at your table to explain how you might use the toolkit
in each phase

14. Scanning Focusing Developing a
Hunch
Learning Taking Action Checking
Learners at the
Centre
Social Nature of
Learning
Emotions are
integral to
learning
Recognising
individual
differences
Stretching all
Students
Assessment for
Learning
Building
Horizontal
Connections

15. Future focused ways to engage with
Spirals of Inquiry
Part 1: Ways to Scan
Part 2: From Scanning to Focusing
Part 3: Developing Hunches

16. 100 ideas NOW!
This is a Design Thinking tool - you can use it with kids and adults for all kinds of
things that need new, fresh ideas - it is an ideation process and it works if the
people doing it are ready to go crazy with exciting NEW and innovative ideas!
Try this…100 ways to Scan in 7 Mins!
1. Consider the Scanning phase of the Spirals of Inquiry
2. Think on your own for 2 mins...what are some new and innovative ideas you
have for Scanning your learners that match up with Spirals and the 7
Principles? Write your ideas on PostIt Notes
3. Get the Timer ready - set it for 7 minutes
4. Everyone in the group (about 10 people) stand up around the table (you must
stand for this!)
5. Call out your idea and put your PostIt Notes on the sheet (others need to hear
your idea in case they get another idea from it)
6. After 7 mins look at what you’ve produced - new ideas?

17. Narrowing down
our ideas - top 10
1. vote for your personal top 5 ideas that grabbed
your attention or excited/intrigued you
2. Record your group’s top 10
3. Score each idea out of 10 for “new” “useful”
“feasible”
- how new is the idea for our cluster or in the
world?
- how useful is the idea for solving the problem?
- how feasible is it for us to pull this idea off?
4. Pick the winners to progress to next stage!

18. Learner Maps
Learner maps are a great way to scan with your learners to find out more about what helps
them to learn and what they know about that. Try this exercise in small groups of three:
1. Take some felts and some paper
2. One person talks and draws and the other two people ask them the following
questions:
How do I like to learn?
What do I like to learn?
Where do I like learning?
Where do I find information to learn?
Name two people who champion you as a learner?
What are the tools that help my learning (technology, online etc)
What are the interactions that support my learning? (use different types of arrows to show these interactions)
3. Talk about how you might do this with very young children versus older children
4. Create some Growth Mindset/Inquiry questions that you could use when mapping
with learners.

20. A simpler version of situation analysis...
Developing Hunches
Themes from data:
Practices:
Reasons for using those practices: