Weekend+2

|| Bellringer: Respond to people who say that principals make to much money. || || https://www.educateiowa.gov/article/2013/09/11/historic-education-reform-bill-becomes-law
 * __ Weekend 2 Agenda: __**
 * ** Saturday ** || ** Theme: “Leading Change and Evaluating Change Efforts” ** ||  ||
 * 8:30 a.m.
 * 9:00 a.m. ||  Compare-State of Educational Reform Effort in Iowa to Teacher leader model or R.E.S.P.E.C.T Blueprint document- Handouts

|| 1. Are they aligned? 2. What does it mean for the future of school leadership? 3. What new skills and experiences of leadership will be required? 4. How can you prepare yourself to lead in this new model? || Unfortunately, some schools, over time, become unproductive and toxic. Staffs fragment, the goal of serving students is lost to that of serving adults and hopelessness reigns (even good schools harbor toxic subcultures). In toxic schools negativity dominates conversations/ interactions; the only stories recounted are of failure, the only heroes are anti-heroes. No one wants to work in these kinds of schools. But it takes leadership, time, and focus to rebuild them. || //School climate may the most important ingredients of a successful instructional program. It is a school's "personality." Without a climate that creates a harmonious, well functioning school, a high degree of academic achievement is difficult, if not impossible, to obtain.// (Hoyle, English & Steffy, 1994) || ** Concepts-- School Culture ** (Gupton): || ** Shaping School Culture ** How does it pertain to culture? || || http://discussnow.info/pipermail/onepagedigest_discussnow.info/attachments/20091130/367eec3c/attachment.pdf || http://flipgrid.com/#2b514e72 || Large group-identify & compare leadership traits to earlier list of desired leadership traits || || Padlet, discuss, pictoral summary, executive summary, Twitter chat, etc. || Homework.
 * 10:00 a.m. ||  Break  ||   ||
 * 10:15 a.m. ||  “The Art of Possibility”  || Ben Zander video/discussion ||
 * Noon ||  Lunch  ||   ||
 * || ** The Blight of Toxic Cultures **
 * 1:00 p.m. || Flipped Assignment-NY Charter School Pays Teachers $125,000 || # What is your reaction to the article/video?
 * 1) Do you believe that paying teachers $125,000/year will promote student achievement? Why or why not?
 * 2) What is the role of the school administration in this new school?
 * 3) How would you evaluate the effectiveness of this new school?
 * 4) Are schools like this new school a threat to public education? How? Why or why not?
 * 5) What other “new school” structures do you think will challenge the traditional public school concept in the next 5 years? 25 years? 50 years? ||
 * ** Review **
 * Careful recruitment, screening, selection, orientation and mentoring of new faculty and staff
 * Identification of teacher, parent and community leaders who are focused on student learning
 * Well-designed, meaningful staff development guided by student performance indicators, focused on improving instruction
 * Process of supervision/evaluation that is supportive and team-based rather than competitive and punitive in nature
 * Celebrate/reward students’ and staff's accomplishments, efforts, and performance among entire school community || ** Principal behaviors in high achieving school cultures: **
 * 1) Communicate high expectations for student achievement
 * 2) Protect faculty from undue pressures, so primary focus is on instruction
 * 3) Assess faculty morale; establish safe/orderly school environment
 * 4) Build a culture of mutual trust and respect
 * 5) Create climate where people feel free to voice dissent; encourage people to disagree and reward innovation ||
 * 1:45 p.m. || Article-Pulling the Weeds Before You Plan the Flowers (Reeves)- Handout  || What is the theme of the article? Why is it important for school leaders to understand?
 * 2:30 p.m. || Break ||  ||
 * 2:45 p.m. || Read and discuss Kouzes and Posner chapter on leadership. || [[file:KouzesPosner-TheLeadershipChallenge.pdf]] ||
 * 3:45 p.m. || Wrap-up/Adjourn || // The future of American education can be no brighter than the future of school leadership. // (NAESP) ||
 * || ** 3 things to do as a new leader: ** (Entry Plan)
 * Needs assessment conversation (all stakeholders; builds trust and makes clear you will listen—however, primary responsibility is to entire organization, with learning and safety as priorities
 * Establish/review teams, identify role descriptions and establish an organizational structure
 * Communicate expectations for due process; establish communication/data management system (preferably electronic). || Fundamental to a school leader’s toolbox: literature base related to organizations/leadership skills.
 * Research and theory (often dismissed by practitioners as being unrelated to “real world”) must come together to overcome challenges
 * Being professionally well read, reflecting on practice and embracing accountability ||
 * ** Sunday ** || ** Theme: “Leading Change and Evaluating Change Efforts” ** || Show Extracurricular Empowerment Video-McLeod ||
 * 8:30 a.m. || Article: First Time In a Position of Authority
 * 9:00 a.m. || Leader Autobiography-Post reflection to:
 * 10:00 a.m. || Break ||  ||
 * 10:15 a.m. || Independent collaboration/work time || Consultation with instructor on FBLA ||
 * 11:30 a.m. || Leaders of Learning discussion Ch. 4-6
 * 1 p.m. || Wrap up and adjourn
 * Finish reading text
 * Biography report/synthesis
 * FBLA (Change Initiative)
 * Flipped Assignment || Padlet reflection-Based on your leadership style, how will you manage conflict?

@http://padlet.com/wall/j0dhazzsym ||