I appreciate the definition of professional learning proposed by the Seminar 1 planning team, particularly the focus on context. In my experience, it is important to understand that context is complex and can include cultural influences, which we can recognize fairly consistently, but also temporal influences. For example, the composition of staff members and the leadership team reflects the impact of age and career stage, all of which are influenced yet again by the age and stage of the organization.

For instance, is anyone in the process of facilitating professional learning in a long established organization with long serving staff? How about in an organization that has experienced a recent high level of staff turnover? How’s that going for you? (That’s a rhetorical question as we don’t want to name names!) 🙂