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Presentation slides at the Annual Meeting of NCSM in Philadelphia - turning vision into sustainable actionTRANSCRIPT
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Leadership Discipline: Turning Vision Into Action!
The reality is that on most days your leadership work exhausts you. You
are trying really hard…
Your true leadership work, is to train in the disciplines that will enable you to lead well, and that will transform
who you are as a PLC school leader.
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Strand: Mathematics Leaders Translate Vision to Practice
Focuses on mathematics coaches, specialists, teacher
leaders, and PD providers and the work they do to support and
encourage teachers for education reform in enhancing
mathematics teaching and learning in their classroom
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When Did You Decide?
To Become a mathematics education teacher and
leader… and enter into the messy world of leading and
influencing other Adults?
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We lead/influence from the middle.
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Is Your Positive High Relational Energy Important?
Rath and Conchie (2008)
Weaknesses: 9%
Strengths: 73%
Full Engagement
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Is Your Positive High Relational Energy Important?
Pheffer and Sutton (2008)
60-75% worse aspect of the job is their boss or a
peer
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Is Your Positive High Relational Energy Important?
Kouzes and Posner (2006)
The single best predictor of career success…
Is the quality of your relationship with your very first supervisor
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Is Your Positive High Relational Energy Important?
Daniel Goleman… You are to foster a relational capacity
among the various adults in your sphere, recognizing when it is low,
and if so, providing immediate feedback for improvement.
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Could you train to get better?
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PLC Leadership Disciplines:
A set of actions you intentionally practice, through continuous training, to improve your ability to lead.
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1 Vision
2 Action
3 Plusing
4 Energy
5 Inspiring
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Discipline of Vision and Values
Better at …
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Noel Tichy – Your Teachable Point of View or TPOV
“A cohesive set of ideas and concepts that a person is able to clearly articulate to others.”
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Your TPOV for Effective Instruction
Describe one vital teacher or administrator behavior…
Your Vision for effective Instruction
Share with shoulder partners
non-negotiable… non discretionary… © Timothy D. Kanold
SMP 6: Attend to precision • state the meaning of the symbols
they use • label the axes to clarify context of
the problem
Comic: http://forums.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=66819 © Institute for Mathematics & Education 2011
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Turning your Vision for Instruction Into Action!
Your “non-negotiable” Vital Teacher/Administrator Instructional Behavior – How certain are you that your
Instructional Vision component is a right thing to pursue in 2012-2013?
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Reconciling Your Experience with the Research and Evidence
How can your PLC team distinguish your experiences from actual evidence?
5 Levels of certainty in your current PLC Instructional practices…
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Reconciling Your Experience with the Research and Evidence
5 Levels of certainty in your practices…
1. Opinion — This is what I believe and I believe it sincerely.
2. Experience — This is what I have seen based on my personal observation
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Reconciling Your Experience with the Research and Evidence
3. Local Evidence— This is what I have seen based on the experiences of my friends and colleagues.
4. Preponderance of evidence — This is what we know as a profession, in many different contexts and across all locations (Research and data).
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Reconciling Your Experience with the Research and Evidence
5 Levels of certainty in your practices…
5. Mathematical Certainty —This what I have seen with 100% certainty. There is no need for a debate.
The Non-negotiable behaviors
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Levels of Certainty
YES - Evaluating the Evidence – John Hattie (2009) meta-analysis of over 800 studies…
Professional Development… as a PLC- .62
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PLC Leaders Are Different…
You Translate vision to practice by becoming a tenacious steward of the vision…
And enlisting others to do the same… p.43
Discipline of Accountability and Celebration
Better at …
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Leading implemented change: The Leadership Discipline of Accountability and Celebration
The promise to yourself and others to monitor stakeholder actions that will lead to those
improved results; with consequences.
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Leadership for Momentum Toward Implementation (P.51-52)
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Leadership Strategies for Moving Vision into Action
What are additional specific steps you can take as a PLC leader/ to get better at closing the Vision Implementation gap?
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PLC Leadership Strategies for Moving Vision into Action
Take a few minutes to read the 8 suggestions on the Blue handout…
Identify one strategy you will develop in yourself during 2012-2013…
State a commitment you will make and share…
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The Leadership Discipline of Accountability and Celebration
Everyone is a leader and steward… Everyone must be involved in the
Accountability/ Celebration PLC culture…
The three Tiers of Accountability and Celebration
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The Goal of Your Leadership is Tier 1 and Tier 2…p.56
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Rejecting Victim Speak p. 53
Effective school leaders move their school culture away from a “Blaming Others” mindset, toward systemic and effective self-ownership at every level…
Avoiding the mysterious “THEY”
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The Beauty of a PLC…The Team Acts as an Inequity Eraser
Equity begins with the selection and implementation of
tasks, the assessment of those tasks, the technology used & The fidelity of feedback and RTI
If it so widely variant from teacher to teacher, then what? GAPS!
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The Leadership Discipline of Accountability and Celebration
Accountability/celebration of Student Results
Accountability/Celebration of Adult Actions
Your # 1 Job – monitor both with consequences Note Cards
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The Tall Poppy Syndrome!
Page 73…
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Discipline of Reflection and Balance
Better at …
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The CCSSM May Be Our Last Opportunity to Get it Right
The unprecedented adoption of the same set of mathematics standards by
nearly all states … provides the opportunity for educators nationwide
to press the “reset” button on mathematics education.