Good to Great to Innovate: Recalculating the Route to Career Readiness, K-12+

About Gale HarildLyn D. Sharratt

Lyn Sharratt is a practitioner and researcher working in remote and urban settings worldwide. Lyn is an Adjunct Professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education University of Toronto Canada; a Fellow at University of Melbourne Australia; an author consultant for Corwin Press; an advisor for International School Leadership with the Ontario Principals Council; and consults internationally working with system school and teacher leaders at all levels in Australia Canada Chile New Zealand the Netherlands Norway the United Kingdom and the United States. Lyn focuses her time and effort on increasing each students growth and achievement by working alongside leaders and teachers to put FACES on their data taking intentional action to make equity and excellence a reality for ALL students. Visit www.lynsharratt.com for articles video clips podcasts; on Twitter: @LynSharratt; on Instagram: lyn_sharratt; and on LinkedIn where Lyn owns the Educational Leadership LinkedIn group made up of 99000+ members. Lyns authorship includes: Realization: The Change Imperative for Deepening District-Wide Reform (with Michael Fullan); Putting FACES on the Data: What Great Leaders Do! (With Michael Fullan); Good to Great to Innovate: Recalculating the Route K-12+ (with Gale Harild); Leading Collaborative Learning: Excellence (with Beate Planche); CLARITY: What Matters MOST in Learning Teaching and Leading (International Best-Selling Education Book in 2020); and Putting FACES on the Data the 10th Anniversary Edition (with Michael Fullan). Lyn is proud of the recent co-development of the CLARITY Learning Suite (CLS) - a web-based collaborative Professional Learning opportunity that mirrors CLARITY. Lyn and her team believe that everyones a leader thus CLS provides guidance to Learning Leaders on how to do this work of system and school improvement together to make a difference for all students. Visit www.claritylearningsuite.com. Gale Harild is an educational practitioner and Pathway consultant. She is currently an instructional leader for York University. Gale served as curriculum administrator for the York Region District School Board in Ontario where over the past 12 years she provided regional leadership and program/resource development for Experiential Learning models including but not limited to cooperative education programming international programming service learning and apprenticeship programs. Working with her Pathway team Gale initiated and supported the successful start-up of sixty Specialist High Skills Majors (SHSM) programs across the district. SHSM performance measures for the district met and in some cases exceeded Ministry targets with program completion rates and credit attainment rates higher than provincial averages. Gale has served on advisory and curriculum writing teams with the Ministry over the course of her career. Prior to her role as a curriculum administrator Gale was a high school teacher for 22 years. Her position as department head for Cooperative Education took her work into elementary schools and post-secondary destinations.  Collaborating with community and industry sector partners as well as post-secondary institutions she has helped build and support pathways for all students by deepening the understanding of the interconnectedness between the curriculum and the work habits/essential skills that make up the profile of the Literate Graduate for the 21st century. Gale is committed to ensuring quality instruction so that every pathway leads to an opportunity. Visit Gale at Linkedin.