GCSD Leadership Academy Mission The Greece Leadership Academy

GCSD Leadership Academy Mission The Greece Leadership Academy seeks to provide a robust leadership development program customized to meet the needs of the district. This rigorous, experiential school leadership refinement program is designed to engage Greece leaders to be the change agents and transformative school leaders who measurably impact student achievement. One Vision ● One Team ● One Greece

Supporting the CCSS Implementation What are some of the Common Core instructional strategies we have modeled this week? One Vision ● One Team ● One Greece

Purpose Day 5 • To understand systems thinking and be able to apply it as an approach to problem solving and analysis • To understand the implications and impact of systems on the role of the leader • To build the relationship between school community members One Vision ● One Team ● One Greece

Team Building: Sorting One Vision One Team One Greece

Sorting • • What does this activity have to do with leadership? How did you organize yourselves when reasons for sorting were arbitrary? What were you looking for? Why did you pay attention to those particular organizing principles? How does sorting data relate to decision making? Are you looking for data that affirm your beliefs and values? Why do we tend to look for and sort what is alike? One Vision ● One Team ● One Greece

Systems Thinking Leadership Academy One Vision One Team One Greece

Systems Thinking Purpose • To explore how a systems thinking approach can help school leaders analyze and think through a change event, specifically the changing role of Teacher Leaders in GSCD • To understand the “iceberg” construct and be able to use it to identify leverage points within a system

Systems Thinking: Iceberg One Vision ● One Team ● One Greece

Systems Thinking: Iceberg One Vision ● One Team ● One Greece

Ladder of Inference/ Mental models Take Actions based on beliefs Adopt Beliefs about the world Draw Conclusions The reflexive loop (Our beliefs affect what data we select next time) Make Assumptions based on the added meanings Add Meanings (cultural and personal) Select “Data” from observations Observable “data” and experiences Senge, P. , et al. (2000). Schools that learn: A fifth discipline field book for educators, parents, and everyone who cares about education. New York: Doubleday/Currency. One Vision ● One Team ● One Greece

Teacher Leader Roles: Administrative Perspective Barb Deane-Williams Jason Cooney Shaun Nelms Doug Pacelli One Vision One Team One Greece

Political Mapping Leadership Academy One Vision One Team One Greece

Political Mapping Purpose To use a Political Mapping Tool to explore the Teacher Leader Position in your school In order to • Identify who will be affected by the work of the teacher leaders and consider strategies for moving forward • Be able to apply a systems thinking approach to problem solving

Political Mapping: Process Teacher Leaders One Vision ● One Team ● One Greece

Political Mapping: Process 1. Clearly state the change or initiative to be undertaken and place that statement in a circle. 2. Begin to identify, in satellite fashion, each of the people or groups (stakeholders) who are likely to have an interest in the change. 3. For each satellite created, determine if the potential impact of the person or group is High, Medium, or Low. 4. For all High and Medium impact satellites, create a new set of satellites, indicating the specific individual or groups with whom you need to communicate. 5. For each individual or group, create a strategy. One Vision ● One Team ● One Greece

Political Mapping: Debrief • What kinds of strategies did you come up with for your school? • How did what you heard from the superintendent, GTA, GASA, and deputy superintendent earlier today impact your thinking/strategizing? One Vision ● One Team ● One Greece

Reflections & Recap Week 1 Leadership Academy One Vision One Team One Greece

Reflection and Looking Forward • What do you want Teacher Leaders to understand about how your school will be moving forward related to, • • • Strategic Plan Instructional Practice PLCs Teacher Effectiveness Mission and Vision • What actions will you take? What supports will you need? • How will the Teacher Leader figure into your plans? One Vision ● One Team ● One Greece

Reflection and Looking Forward: Debrief • How do these plans connect to the strategic plan? • What have you seen or heard ideas from your colleagues that resonates with you? One Vision ● One Team ● One Greece

Overview: Week Two One Vision One Team One Greece

Making Connections Day 5 Day 6 q. TL vision for the district q. Unpack & apply the TL standards and job description q. Journey Lines ü Teacher Leader Roles One Vision ● One Team ● One Greece

Making Connections All Week 1 Day 7 q. Developing & supporting effective teams q. Share best practices to support TL ü Team building ü Reflections/ SIP work ü TPOV One Vision ● One Team ● One Greece

Making Connections Day 2 & Day 3 ü Curriculum Review of the CCSS ü Develop implementation plans & identify priorities ü Visible Learning One Vision ● Day 8 q. Revisit Hattie’s q. Dissect further CCSS ELA & Math to gain an understanding of vertical alignment One Team ● One Greece

Making Connections Day 2 & Day 3 ü Curriculum Review of the CCSS ü Develop implementation plans & identify priorities ü Visible Learning One Vision ● Day 8 q. Revisit Hattie’s q. Dissect further CCSS ELA & Math to gain an understanding of vertical alignment One Team ● One Greece

Making Connections Day 1 ü Strategic Plan with an emphasis on Goal 1 & Goal 2 ü Every Student by Face and Name Day 9 q. Identifying work priorities for SIP work q. Systems to support the implementation q. Multi-tiered support systems One Vision ● One Team ● One Greece

Making Connections All Week Day 10 q. Develop plans to engage all stakeholders q. Set personal goals ü Reflections, Goals, SIP, Strategic Plan, Mission One Vision ● One Team ● One Greece

Making Connections What resonates with you? • Use the agendas to select the session that had the most impact for you. • Write it on a post-it note. • Using the Strategic Map by your table, determine where the post-it fits and place it on the map. One Vision ● One Team ● One Greece

School Community: SIP Work One Vision One Team One Greece

Reflections - Day 5 In school teams, map out the strategies that would be used to support your school mission/ vision as you work to make connections to the strategic plan. • Complete reflection on pre-work as a team (11 x 16) • Focus on strategies or activities to make explicit connections to the mission/ vision • Continue SIP Goal Setting template Who should facilitate? Select someone other than the principal One Vision ● One Team 55 min. action plan templates ● One Greece

Leadership Follies Day Five One Vision One Team One Greece

Purpose • To highlight in a fun way what has been learned One Vision ● One Team ● One Greece

Silent reflection time • Solo Jot: Reflecting on the previous discussions and the week’s activities, write yourself some notes about what stands out for you. • This is SILENT time. One Vision ● One Team ● One Greece

In your school groups • Share your stand outs. • Everyone should contribute at least a couple. One Vision ● One Team ● One Greece

Prepare a Presentation • Your goal is to share your group’s learnings with the rest of the participants. In a way that keeps our interest. • Suggest you use some (three? ) of the following components: music, physical movement, props, audience participation, sound effects, drama or roleplaying, art/pictures. • All group members must have a visible role. • 25 minutes to prepare. Between 2 and 4 minutes max. One Vision ● One Team ● One Greece