Current+Practice

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Identified concerns and opportunities Docs to be stored in Goggle Docs

Science Renewal
Three strands - Science as Inquiry, Natural and Processed Materials and Life and Living - are ready for piloting The other two - Earth and Beyond and Energy and Change have the first draft of their progress maps and just need finishing off And we finally have someone in the Science position - YAY!

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Where we are upto? What are we feeling?

**ICT Expert Focus Group **
**#d919f5 || TLF Manager, T,L&S - in a previous life was a **primary school** teacher ||
 * **Cassy Coggins
 * **Wendy Cowan ** || CARDE Project Officer, TL&S - in a previous life was part of the Middle Years team at T,L&S and has learnt alot of her digital technology tricks and attitudes from **middle years** students, particularly the "ricky" ones, both in formal and informal learning environments ||
 * **Peter White ** || Acting AP Nightcliff **Primary School** - co-wrote ICT Statements of Learning ||
 * **Jason Motbey ** || **Middle Years** team, TL&S - Arnhem. Previously worked as ICT teacher, Dripstone Middle School. ||
 * || Arnhem ||
 * || Alice Springs ||
 * || Tennant Creek ||
 * || Katherine ||
 * || Rural - Taminmin, Palmerston ||

**Teacher participation**


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<span style="color: rgb(172, 53, 233)"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">all indicate the importance of having creative thinkers from across the NT and a balance of teachers from Primary and Middle Schools and teachers who predominately teach year 10's in senior secondary. NT being a small network, how teachers read the structure and the "gossip/shadow system" around how are, and who is, developing the materials will be a determining factor in uptake/ownership and participation. =====

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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span style="color: rgb(172, 53, 233)"> Patricia Shaw, a complexity theorist, describes this work as //“actively working with a paradox - an official role in a legitimate control system, facilitating an intended change effort, while simultaneously participating in a shadow system in which no one is "in control" but in which patterns of controlled behaviour emerge that profoundly influence the actual evolution of the organization”// (1997 p.235). <span style="color: rgb(172, 53, 233)">Noise in the system, gossip, shadow systems