Welcome!

Planning and Managing Resources Debbie McFalone, Ph.D.

Welcome and Group Development

Practices of Exemplary Leaders

Framing Our Thoughts About Resources

TED.com: Simon Sinek

An Implementation Audit

Protocols for Decision-Making

The Ultimate Resource: Trust

Communicating Your Message

Today’s Learning

Numbers in our lives

Group Development

To provide current, relevant information

To create a positive learning environment

To be open to your questions

To model protocols you can use immediately in your own leadership practice

Count on Me…

Participate Actively

Ask your questions---Press for clarity

To be open to thinking creatively

Transfer the learning---What does this mean to you in your current situation?

…and I’ll Count On You

“Leadership matters…And it matters more in times of uncertainty

than in times of stability.”

---Kouzes and Posner, 2003.

It’s Really All About You...

“What we have before usare

breathtaking opportunitiesdisguised as

insoluble problems.”

---J. Gardner, Advisor to four Presidents

What’s Your Perspective?

Model the Way

Inspire a Shared Vision

Challenge the Process

Enable Others to Act

Encourage the Heart

5 Practices of Exemplary Leaders

Coherent leaders “walk the talk”---

They’re active participants in the betterment of their communities

“Wear one hat” ---Howard Behar

Model the Way

Inspire a Shared Vision

“Inspirational leaders envision the future, and enlist others.

A deeply felt belief, along with commitment and enthusiasm for it brings the vision to life for all

of us.”---Kouzes and Posner

Compliance leads to mediocrity

Commitment leads to excellence

Vision and Excellence

Sergiovanni: “Leadership by Outrage”

It is the leader’s responsibility to beoutraged,

when empowerment is abused and when

purposes are ignored.

Challenge the Process

Skillful leaders demonstrate courage and integrity by

holding difficult conversations and

asking intentional questions

Challenge the Process

Mike Mattos…..

“What worked yesterdayis

the gilded cageof tomorrow.”

“When I finally hit a point where I realized if you want to be an effective leader, you shouldn’t be the one doing all the work,

You should be leading and guiding and

helping your leaders move your building to the next step….

When I made that paradigm shift, I really became a much better administrator.

Enable others to act

“Leadership is an affair of the heart.”

“Leaders who are most effective in generating results will appeal not only

to the bottom line, but also to the heart. In fact, one of the best strategies for improving results is connecting with

people’s deepest, heartfelt hopes.”--Rick DuFour

Encourage the Heart

“The leader must not onlymake decisions,

but must connect those decisions to

the heartbeat of the school.”

Sergiovanni

Model the Way

Inspire a Shared Vision

Challenge the Process

Enable Others to Act

Encourage the Heart

5 Practices of Exemplary Leaders

How do the 5 Practices of Exemplary Leaders

relate to issues of high accountability and

limited resources?

What connections do you make?

Processing Pause

Reeves: If you have more than six priorities, you have too many.

Real difference is made through depth of implementation

Schools that have 90% buy-in of any initiative make 2 to 3 times the gains of

other schools

“Initiative Fatigue”

Simon Sinek:

How Great Leaders Inspire Action

TED.com

Reeves:

◦It’s people and practices, not programs

◦Even the best initiatives will fail without leadership focus

Our Leadership Focus

Focus

Monitoring of adults as well as students

Teacher efficacy

#1 Variables in Achievement

What’s our initiative inventory?

What’s the range of implementation?

What’s the impact on student achievement?

An Implementation Audit

Implementation / Impact Quadrants

HIGH

IMPACT

LOW HIGH

IMPLEMENTATION

LEAD INVEST

WEED EVALUATE

Chart your own initiatives on the template…

“If you need to cut programs during times of economic

stress---start by cutting what’s not working!!!”

---Reeves

Your Own Initiatives

Literacy Protocol

Academic Return On Investment

A Simple Model for Decision-Making

Focusing Four Model

Protocols for Decision-Making

1. Always ensure that your group knows their purpose (and their NON-purpose)

2. Skillful leaders can look back and see evidence of a variety of different strategies for decision-making

Two issues to remember:

“Round Robin Protocol”

How To Make Wise Resource-Allocation Decisions

“ There can be no significant learning without significant relationships.”

---Comer

“Character is the defining characteristic of authentic

leadership.”---Sergiovanni

Courage, Integrity, and Compassion

“Relational trust is central to building effective educational communities

“Trust erodes when incompetence is not addressed.”

Trustworthiness in Leadership

Honesty and Trustworthiness

Caring and Personal Regard

Competence

Openness and Collegiality

Four Elements of Trust

“ Due to the hierarchical nature of our schools, the burden of developing

trust falls upon the school leaders.”

“Trustworthy leadership is at the heart of successful schools.”

Tschannen-Moran

Lencioni on Trust

Jigsaw in Groups of 3:

Everyone: Page 149

Person #1: Pg. 150-153

Person #2: 161-162

Person #3: 163-164

Chapter 8: Align the Design

Ideas and examples: Communicating your vision, values, and priorities

Telling Your Story…and Listening

What’s been most valuable?

After today’s learning, what will you do◦ More of?

◦ Less of?

◦ Better?

◦ Differently?

Summary