September 18, 2012
LAKEVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS
LEADERSHIP TEAM INSTITUTE
Welcome • Candace Raskin
• Dee Wells
• Barb Wilson
• Welcome, facilitator introductions
–Why this institute?
Who are the Members of this Institute?
• Find someone you know well.
• Sit by each other – don’t talk
• Go to www.wordle.net
• Create a wordle on the partner you selected
using words you believe describe his/her...
– Leadership style
– Core Beliefs
– Passions
Who are the Members of this Institute?
• Share your wordle with your partner
• Join another pair you don’t know well
• Share the wordle you did about your
partner with your group
• Take out your journal and reflect
– What was spot on
– What was a surprise
– What was missing
Today
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Introductions
Lakeville Leadership Team Mission and Vision
Cone of Silence
Overview of Beliefs
Beliefs to Behaviors = Results
School Culture
Lakeville Leadership Team
Institute’s Mission
Every participating leader will
develop a professional learning
culture within their
school/environment that
ensures equity and
opportunity—every child, every
day.
Lakeville Leadership Team
Institute Vision
In an era of unprecedented
educational challenge and need,
develop a team of leaders that lead
with fearlessness, skill, self knowledge
and racial competence so that under
their leadership, EVERY child fully
achieves.
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 Institute matters with anyone including a
spouse or significant other. No quoting others.
• Discussions outside of our Institute can be overheard
or intercepted. No email, voice mail regarding our
matters when it’s confidential
• Never talk about an Institute member when they are
not present. Similar to gossiping.
• Even long after the Institute is over, continue to honor
the cone of silence.
INSTITUTE BELIEFS
Collaborative Teaming
Participative leadership focused on
teaching and learning
Common Mission, Vision, Beliefs, Behaviors
Mission
Vision
Beliefs
Results
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Behaviors
Systems of Prevention and
Intervention that Ensure Academic
Success for All Students
Data Driven Decision that Promotes
Continuous Assessments and
Improvement
Interdependent Culture Based on Trust
Leadership Focused on Results and
Student Learning
Professional Development that is
Teacher Driven and Embedded in
Daily Work
The question confronting most
school and district leaders is not,
“What do we need to know in order
to improve?”
but rather,
“Will we turn what we already
know into action?”
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The Construction Process…
Mission
Vision
Beliefs
Results
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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…
If you believe… Then we behave…
• Work with a belief that was assigned
to your table…..
• What’s the belief?
• What are the behaviors that should
coincide with the belief?
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to behaviors
Beliefs to Behaviors
K-12 Administration
Behaviors for our Institute
• Each table will generate the top three
behaviors to coincide with the belief
assigned.
• On chart paper write your belief and your
top three behaviors.
• Report to the whole group
Assignment #1
• Repeat this activity within your school at a
staff meeting.
• Let’s have a discussion – who doesn’t have a
building assignment?
• How will you engage in this activity?
Understanding School Culture to
Improve Learning
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Defining School Culture
• At your table, develop descriptors of school
culture
• Write those descriptors on the post-it notes at
your table
Understanding School Cultures
Dan Lortie (1986) described teachers who still work under school
conditions of long ago.
Isolation – Teachers have only their own
expertise, energy, and time to solve all the
problems within their classrooms.
No shared dialogue around the technical core of
teaching—yet researchers of improving schools
identified one essential dimension common to all:
“Professionals constantly talk with each other, in a
problem-solving, action-oriented way, about
teaching.”
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Culture is a Powerful Force
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School Culture: What is it and what
isn’t it?
What Culture is…
 The way we do things around here.
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What school culture is not…
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School climate
School environment
School spirit
History
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A school’s perception
of itself shapes what it
ultimately becomes, or
what it represents to
others.
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Film Clip
From Dead Poet’s Society determine the following:
 Historical and current artifacts
▪ Behavior norms, traditions, and myths
 Commonly held values and beliefs
 Internal and external participants
 Basic assumptions
▪ Underlying basis for actions, values and beliefs
 What were the roles of leaders?
 What were the roles of participants?
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Dead Poet’s Society
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2c_A7pst
BjU
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Discussion
From Dead Poet’s Society determine the following:
 Historical and current artifacts
▪ Behavior norms, traditions, and myths
 Commonly held values and beliefs
 Internal and external participants
 Basic assumptions
▪ Underlying basis for actions, values and beliefs
 What were the roles of leaders?
 What were the roles of participants?
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Which of the following pictures describes your school’s
culture? Explain why.
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Which of the following pictures describes the culture that
you would like to develop in your school?
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To understand your school’s
culture is to understand its
future.
Class of 2025
RETURN TO YOUR TABLE
Defining School Culture
• At your table, review the culture descriptors
on your post-it notes
• Pull out the descriptors that you have
reconsidered
• Add any descriptors that you now believe
define school culture on post-it notes
Assignment 2
• Repeat the culture exercise with the post-it
notes in your building at a staff meeting
• Discussion – how will those not assigned to a
building complete this assignment?
Journal
• What is the most significant behavior that you
will change or begin based on tonight’s work?