Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Candace F. Raskin, Ph.D., Professor
Melissa Krull, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Welcome • Candace Raskin
• http://animoto.com/play/nDBVM2SbtY5HkKoGUHLd8g
• Welcome, facilitator introductions
• Why this institute?
• What’s the moral imperative?
Who are the Members of this Institute?
• Find someone you don’t know.
• Pair up with them.
• Interview them…
• Who are you?
•Why are you a principal or school leader?
•What inspires you to lead?
•What stops you, if anything, from achieving
the strongest results for every student?
•What’s your favorite song?
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Today August 7th
• Introductions
• Institute Overview & Strands
• Our Mission, Our Vision, Our Beliefs, Our Behaviors
that lead to Our Results?
• Lunch
• Can we lead through our strengths?
• Marcus Buckingham
• How Can We Lead Ourselves, Others & Change?
• Overview for Tomorrow
Principal Institute’s Mission
Every participating
leader ensures, access,
fairness, equity and
opportunity—every
child, every day.
Principal Institute Vision
In an era of unprecedented
educational challenge and need,
further prepare early career principals
to lead with fearlessness, skill, self
knowledge and racial competence so
that under their leadership, EVERY
child fully achieves.
Equity and Achievement
Understanding the relationship between
race and learning…
Developing Others
Becoming a leader who can lead the
development of others
through coaching, mentoring and difficult
conversations
Change Processes
Initiating, facilitating and sustaining change
Developing Self
Leading through reflection, 360 Assessment
and deeper understanding
of your leadership style
High Leverage Leadership Practices
High level best practice
instruction that leads to results
Political Leadership
Navigating political will while staying
true to the right work and doing what’s
best for students
Communicating It Right
Communicating so others will listen,
follow and believe
Cone of Silence
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1eUIK9CihA
Public Knowledge: This information is not confidential and
is stated as such by the person speaking..
Permission Granted: This information was shared
confidential. Someone asks for permission to repeat it and
permission is granted.
Cohort confidential: This information is confidential. It can
never be repeated outside the Cohort meeting.
Attila the Hun: The speaker can state “Attila the Hun” after
sharing something that they never want to be spoken of
again, even in the cohort meeting…
What Does a Breach Look Like?
• Discussing cohort matters with anyone including a
spouse or significant other. No quoting others.
• Discussions outside of our cohort can be overheard or
intercepted. No email, voice mail regarding our matters
when it’s confidential
• Never talk about a cohort member when they are not
present. Similar to gossiping.
• Even long after the cohort is over, continue to honor
the cone of silence.
Mission – Vision – Beliefs –
Behaviors and Results
Principal Institute’s Mission
Every participating
leader ensures, access,
fairness, equity and
opportunity—every
child, every day.
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What is your school’s mission?
• Does your school’s mission have the phrase “all
students”?
• If so, does every faculty member show it?
• Can you prove from data that your school
advocates for all children and youth?
Principal Institute Vision
In an era of unprecedented
educational challenge and need,
further prepare early career principals
to lead with fearlessness, skill, self
knowledge and racial competence so
that under their leadership, EVERY
child fully achieves.
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What is your school’s vision?
• Does your school’s vision –
• provide a link between the present
and the future?
• Serve to energize and motivate?
• Provide meaning for the work?
• Set a standard of excellence?
Let’s Eat…
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The Construction Process…
Mission
Vision
Results
Beliefs
Behaviors
If we believe every
leader in this
institute can and will
generate better
achievement results
than they currently
have…
Then every leader is
held accountable
with high
expectations and
equal access to all
opportunities…
Beliefs
to
to behaviors
Behaviors
K-12 Administration
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If you believe… Then we behave…
• Work with a belief that was identified
at your table…..
• What’s the belief?
• What’s the behavior that should
coincide with the belief?
Beliefs for our Institute
• At your table share your beliefs – select
your top 5 beliefs and write them on post it
notes and post
• Each table will report out
• Select a representative from your group
• The rest of you get a break
• Small Group Report
Behaviors for our Institute
• Each table will generate the top two
behaviors to coincide with the belief
assigned.
• Report to the whole group
• On chart paper write your belief and your
top two behaviors.
Leading Self - Leading Others - Leading
Change
Leading Self - Leading Others - Leading
Change
Marcus Buckingham
Leading Self - Leading Others - Leading Change
• Think of the most influential leader
• List four characteristics of this leader
• Think about yourself
• List four characteristics you display as a leader
• Think about yourself again
• List two or three words you wish described you
What Strengths Finder is all about!
• Understanding your strengths
• Understanding the strengths of others
• In Order To...
• Build stronger relationships
• Value and integrate our differences
• Increase leadership, team and influence
effectiveness
Insight on Your Strengths
• Your Strengths
• Activity #1 Writing Exercise
• Activity #2 Exploring Signature Strengths
Leading Self - Leading Others - Leading
Change
• Executing
• Relationships
• Influence
• Strategic Thinker
Leading Self - Leading Others - Leading
Change
• Activity #3
• Look at your top strength
• What area does it fall in?
• Executing
• Relationships
• Influence
• Strategic Thinker
• Get into your like group team?
Leading Self - Leading Others - Leading
Change
In your like group
• Answer the following questions• What are the strengths of your domain?
• What does your domain bring to a team?
• What irritates you about other domains?
• What do you do that irritates other domains?
• What other domain do you need most on your
leadership team?
Leading Self - Leading Others - Leading
Change
Journal:
• Were you surprised by any of your
strengths?
• Describe one thing you learned as a result
completing this exercise .
• List one or two things that you will do in
starting the school year based on the
knowledge of your strengths?
Journal
•What is
your main
take away
from
today?
Day Two Overview
• Revisit Behaviors and Beliefs
• Principal Panel
• Mapping out plan for your schools
• Lunch and working on plans in pairs
• Chimamanda Edichie: The Danger of a
Single Story
• Reframing