Reflexive Leadership Working With Community Reflecting on reflection

Reflexive Leadership & Working With Community …. Reflecting on reflection

Your Context • Where do you work? • In improving outcomes for Indigenous students, how important is it to have community and school working together? • In your context, is it easy to identify who the “community” is?

Morne & Mason Marine Architects • It’s 1725 and you are marine architects. • You have been given the task of designing a new and improved variety of slave ship. Concept Janett Jackson: 2007

• Third Creek (Adelaide Plains rear K Mart car park, Firle)

• Third Creek (Adelaide Plains Shakespeare Avenue, Magill)

Insanity & Solutions Albert Einstein • Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. • We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

The Dilemma • “When I first became a school leader in a remote Indigenous community. I was aware that I didn’t know all of the answers - after several months, it became clear to me that I didn’t even know the questions!”

• Third Creek (Adelaide Plains Uni. SA grounds, Magill)

School Culture Continuum * Indigenous Education Leadership Institute (Stronger Smarter) Cultural Awareness Cultural Sensitivity Cultural Competence Cultural Proficiency High End Skills Low End Skills

The Culture of The School Over-rides all Strategic Plans * Indigenous Education Leadership Institute (Stronger Smarter) • • • Performance Competition Task Orientation Deficit Rational Sameness Debate Individual Quantitative

The Culture of The School Over-rides all Strategic Plans * Indigenous Education Leadership Institute (Stronger Smarter) • • • Performance Competition Task Orientation Deficit Rational Sameness Debate Individual Quantitative Learning Collaboration Process Strengths Emotional / Social Difference Dialogue Collective Qualitative

• Reflexivity is about thinking and rethinking issues from your point of view, and the point of view of every other member of the group with which you are working, and then acting to achieve improved outcomes for everyone. NB: This also means thinking outside of the dominant cultural view of the group. Russ & Janett Jackson, 2009.

The Individual EMOTIONAL & PHYSICAL WELLBEING VALUES BELIEFS KNOWLEDGE

Interaction Group EMOTIONAL & PHYSICAL WELLBEING VALUES BELIEFS KNOWLEDGE EMOTIONAL & PHYSICAL WELLBEING VALUES EMOTIONAL & PHYSICAL WELLBEING BELIEFS KNOWLEDGE BELIEFS VALUES BELIEFS KNOWLEDGE EMOTIONAL & PHYSICAL WELLBEING BELIEFS VALUES BELIEFS KNOWLEDGE ��� Russ Jackson 2009

System EMOTIONAL & PHYSICAL WELLBEING VALUES BELIEFS KNOWLEDGE ��� Russ Jackson 2009

Which Community? • • The individual? The Interaction Group? The System? The School Community?

School Community

How? • • In collaboration with community: How can you develop governance? How can you influence staff selection? How can you develop staff induction? How can you develop school (and? ) community partnership? • ?