ntc conference: ground rules.final
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Ground Rules: Clarifying and Enacting Moral Purpose for Excellence in Leadership and Mentor Practice
Claudia Heron [email protected] [email protected]
Alison Kreider [email protected] [email protected]
Introductions
At your table groups, briefly introduce yourselves, sharing:
– Your name
– Your current professional role
– One thing that inspires you about the work that you do.
Are there commonalities or recurrent themes in your group?
Ground Rules
Clarifying and Enacting Moral Purpose for Excellence in Leadership and Mentor Practice
Alison Kreider & Claudia HeronLead Mentors, New Teacher Support & Development, Oakland Unified
12th Annual New Teacher Center Symposium
On what moral principles is my mentor or leadership practice premised?
Do my actions and words clearly embody these moral principles?
In what ways can I be more intentional about enacting moral purpose in my work every day?
Agenda
Moral Purpose and Relational Trust
Write and share about the moral purpose that guides our work - Interactive
Choose one moral purpose to reflect on more deeply in small groups - Trios
Set and share an intention
Outcomes
Clarify the moral purpose(s) that inform our work.
Make decisions about how to enact our moral purpose(s) in our day-to-day practice.
Participate in sharing the values, beliefs, and actions that guide our professional lives.
By the close of this session, we will…
Norms for Collaboration
Equity of Voice
Active Listening
Respect for All Perspectives
Maximize Time and Attention - drawn from The New Teacher Center & Laura Lipton and Bruce Wellman
Relational Trust
Respect Competence Personal Regard Integrity
- Anthony Bryk & Barbara Schneider
Trust in Schools: A Core Resource for Improvement
Relational Trust Reduces vulnerability and encourages risk
taking.
Facilitates public problem solving.
Establishes a professional community of mutual support.
Creates a moral resource for school improvement.
Influences belief in the organization’s mission.
Bryk & Schneider, Trust in Schools (p. 116-117)
Relational Trust Matters
Schools with strong relational trust had a 1 in 2 chance of making significant improvements in reading and mathematics.
Schools with weak relational trust had a 1 in 7 chance of making improvement ONLY IF these schools strengthened trust over the course of the multi-year study.
Schools with poor relational trust did not improve and had almost no chance of making academic improvements in either reading or mathematics.
Bryk & Schneider, Trust in Schools (p. 111)
Relational Trust
Respect Competence Personal Regard Integrity
- Anthony Bryk & Barbara Schneider
Trust in Schools: A Core Resource for Improvement
Trust, n.
Integrity, n.
Trust, n.
• reliance on the integrity, justice, etc., of a person; confidence.
~ The American College Dictionary
Integrity, n.
• soundness of moral principle and character; uprightness; honesty.
~ The American College Dictionary
Moral Principle or Moral Purpose
• Deciding on our personal rules for right conduct within our professional lives.
Personal Examples All interactions hold the possibility for learning.
A teacher’s time is valuable and mentoring sessions should maximize time for learning.
All teachers and all students are learners.
Mentoring is collaborative and is meaningful when insight and professional skill is advanced.
If I make a commitment, I will follow through.
Students are at the center of the work.
“The most important thing to know is that the combination of moral purpose and relational trust generates the wherewithal to go the extra mile. It makes a complex, difficult journey worthwhile and doable.”
-Michael Fullan The Moral Imperative of School Leadership
Silent Write
What fundamental principles or moral purpose guides my work?
Moving Share and Listen
Circulate Pair up Share Listen Pause Circulate…
Clarifying Moral Purpose
Choose and refine one fundamental principle or moral purpose to work with in more depth for the
next activity.
“To a large extent, moral commitments explain the decisions people make and the behavior they exhibit.”
-Thomas J. Sergiovanni
Moral Leadership
Enacting Moral Purpose - ActivityEnacting Moral Purpose – Guided Thinking Organizer
Guidi ng Pri ncipl e or Mo ral Purp o se
What does it look like? What actions? What does it sound like? What words?
What resonates? What can be added? What is missing?
Next Steps I Can Take
TRIO FEEDBACK INDIVIDUAL REFELCT AND WRITE
Consider…
What intentional actions do I make?
What are my spoken statements?
What are my unspoken statements?
Do they align with my moral purpose?
Enacting Moral Purpose - Example
Guiding Principle or Moral Purpose
What does it look like? What actions?
What does it sound like? What words?
A teacher’s time is valuable and mentoring time should be maximized for learning.
Be on time.
Sit down.
Focus on attending fully - active listening.
Facilitate focus on task at hand.
Come to meaningful and achievable next steps.
Eliminate distractions (phones, laptops)
“Was this useful for you?”
“Thank you for your time.”
“What is your thought on how we can make best use of the time during our next session?”
Enacting Moral Purpose - Example
Guiding Principle or Moral Purpose
What does it look like? What actions?
What does it sound like? What words?
All interactions hold the possibility for learning
Active listening
Holding positive presuppositions
Asking clarifying questions
Not rushing (when people are given a chance to speak their knowledge/ insights emerge)
“thank you for sharing”
“I appreciate you sharing that with me…”
Intentionally choosing not to say much=holding silence
Silence = Pause(Facilitates thinking)
Mentoring Techniques
Paying Attention to Self and Others Holding Positive Presuppositions Pausing Paraphrasing Clarifying Focusing on Evidence Suspending Judgment Sharing Responsibility
Enacting Moral Purpose - ActivityEnacting Moral Purpose – Guided Thinking Organizer
Guidi ng Pri ncipl e or Mo ral Purp o se
What does it look like? What actions? What does it sound like? What words?
What resonates? What can be added? What is missing?
Next Steps I Can Take
TRIO FEEDBACK INDIVIDUAL REFELCT AND WRITE
Enactment Activity - Trios Share A volunteer shares their notes on moral
purpose and actions/words.
Listening partners attend fully - gathering notes/thoughts on extra graphic organizer.
After volunteer shares, have a conversation with your group about what resonates, what can be added, what’s missing, ideas for next steps, etc.
After about 5 minutes switch.
Intention-Driven Action
“The choices we make and the actions we take are increasingly effective when they are consciously connected to clear intentions. Mindfulness of the intention …is an important function of a learning-focused relationship.
Laura Lipton and Bruce WellmanMentoring Matters
Examples of intentions
Before I start the car, I intend to have a safe ride to work.
Before I engage with a mentee, I intend to learn something new or be helpful.
Before entering a meeting with a mentee, I intend to keep the conversation focused on tangible next steps.
Before the meeting begins, I intend to be calm.
Before I get out of bed, I intend to have a productive day.
Setting an IntentionMy Intention is…
Compose a succinct, one sentence intention towards enacting your moral purpose.
Write your intention on the provided cards at your tables.
Share intentions when prompted.
“When we see ourselves as acting from intention, we can begin to see everyone we meet as a person acting from intention, themselves. With this view, we establish community, trust, and support for each other in our efforts.”
-Paul Haller Public lecture, San Francisco Zen Center
“…deep down, we know what motivates and what inspires, but to tap these resources of motivation more fully we must embark on a journey to make school life more meaningful….We need to be in touch with our basic values and our connections to others. In other words, we must become more authentic with ourselves and others.”
- Thomas J. Sergiovanni Moral Leadership
Continue the Conversation www.moralpurpose.blogspot.com
Claudia Heron [email protected] [email protected]
Alison Kreider [email protected] [email protected]
510-830-9923