As a Leader for Learning, Annelies orchestrated opportunities for growth and change through a learning vision, talking with students about their learning, and actively seeking out opportunities to connect and collaborate with colleagues around student thinking data.
Annelies ensured that school improvement processes rested on research and practices that showed evidence of how to improve learning. Learning became the heart of everything; the lens through which all processes and decisions were made. What became most evident to Annelies was the power of student voice. Their stories of learning empowered teachers to think differently about their teaching, and transformed the work of leadership.