Practical Lessons

Practical Lessons for 21st Century

Leaders

March 25, 2012

Marcus J. Newsome, Ed.D.

Practical Lessons for 21st Century Leaders Whether you are an aspiring leader, experienced administrator or school superintendent, you will learn to blend proven best practices with 21st Century innovation that produces high levels of student achievement. Discover the knowledge and skills of transformational leadership to develop a new vision and systemic structures that help navigate an organization through the changing social, political, and economic forces facing educational institutions. Learn how to create a new vision, how to gather support from stakeholders, and build leadership capacity. Leave this session with a renewed ability to inspire hope and optimism with leadership credibility and 21st Century tools that can facilitate dramatic increases in teacher performance and student achievement.

Students 59,000 students 56% white 27% black 9% Hispanic 4% Asian/Pacific Islander 3% two or more races 30% FR (E.S. & M.S.) Employees 7,800 total

64 schools

38 E.S. (grades K-5) 12 M.S. (grades 6-8) 11 H.S. (grades 9-12) 1 technical center FY2012 budget

$532.5 mil operating budget $8,200 p/student 99.3% operation efficiency

Chesterfield County Public Schools Profile

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Virginia Auditor of Public Accounts 123 of the 132 school divisions

pay more to educate their children

$8,000 $13,000 $18,000

King GeorgePoquoson

AppomattoxWarren

New KentBedfordCaroline

PittsylvaniaChesterfield

State Avg.Arlington

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• Hired by the Commonwealth of Virginia to conduct an efficiency audit of Chesterfield County schools, MGT of America gave a glowing report of how the school system is run.

• “This is a very well run school division,” said MGT principal Kathy Brooks. “We have never had this many commendations for a school system.”

Audit: 99.3 percent efficiency

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Standards of Learning, 2010-2011 Percentage Passing – All Students

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Presentation Overview

Leadership Theories & Principles

Challenges

To Education

Examples Of

Success

Challenges to Education

Misguided legislation Economy Unrealistic expectations Social forces Demographic changes (local & global) Unfunded mandates Media Changing technology

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Of 34 OECD Countries, U.S.A. Ranks 12th in Reading Literacy

U.S.A.

Higher than U.S. average Not measurably different from U.S. average Lower than U.S. average

Source: “Highlights from PISA 2009,” NCES, 2010 The Education Trust

OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) PISA (Program for International Student Assessment)

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Of 29 OECD Countries, U.S.A. Ranked 24th

PISA 2003 Results, OECD The Education Trust

U.S.A.

Source: “Highlights from PISA 2009,” NCES, 2010 The Education Trust

Higher than U.S. average Not measurably different from U.S. average Lower than U.S. average

Of 34 OECD Countries, U.S.A. Ranks 17th

in Science

U.S.A.

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U.S.A. Ranks 24th Out of 29 OECD Countries in Problem-Solving

PISA 2003 Results, OECD The Education Trust

U.S.A.

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“No generation of educators in history has been asked to do what

Americans now demand of their public schools.”

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Vollmer’ List In the 1970s, we added

Drug and alcohol abuse education Parenting education (techniques and tools for healthy parenting) Behavior adjustment classes (including classroom and communication

skills) Character education Special education (mandated by federal government) Title IX programs (greatly expanded athletic programs for girls) Environmental education Women’s studies African-American heritage education School breakfast programs (Now some schools feed America’s

children two-third of their daily meals throughout the school year and all summer. Sadly, these are the only decent meals some children receive.)

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Vollmer’ List In the 1980s, we added

Keyboarding and computer education Global education Multicultural/Ethnic education Nonsexist education English-as-a-second-language and bilingual education Teen pregnancy awareness Hispanic heritage education Early childhood education Jump Start, Early Start, Even Start, and Prime Start Full-day kindergarten Preschool programs for children at risk After-school programs for children of working parents Alternative education in all its forms Stranger/danger education Sexual abuse prevention education Expanded health and psychological services Child abuse monitoring (a legal requirement for all teachers)

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Vollmer’ List In the 1990s, we added:

Conflict resolution and peer mediation HIV/AIDS education CPR training Death education America 2000 initiatives (Republican) Inclusion Expanded computer and internet education Distance learning Tech Prep and School to Work programs Technical Adequacy Assessment Post-secondary enrollment options Concurrent enrollment options Goals 2000 initiatives (Democrat) Expanded Talented and Gifted opportunities At-risk and dropout prevention Homeless education (including causes and effects on children) Gang education (urban centers) Service learning Bus safety, bicycle safety, gun safety, and water safety education

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Vollmer’ List In the first decade of the 21st Century, we added:

In the first decade of the twenty-first century, we have added: No Child Left Behind (Republican) Bully prevention Anti-harassment policies (gender, race, religion, or national

origin) Expanded early childcare and wrap around programs Elevator and escalator safety instruction Body Mass Index evaluation (obesity monitoring) Organ donor education and awareness programs Personal financial literacy Entrepreneurial and innovation skills development Media literacy development Contextual learning skill development Health and wellness programs Race to the Top (Democrat) Race to the Top (Democratic)

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Practical Lessons

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Challenges to

Education

Leadership Theories & Principles

Examples Of

Success

Major Leadership Styles Autocratic Charismatic Cross-Cultural Emergent

Leadership Exchange Laissez Faire Situational

Strategic Team Transformational Facilitative Influence Participative Servant Visionary

Theories, Theorists, & Principles That guide our thinking…

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Herzberg's Two Factor Theory McGregor Theory X/Y The Brain-based Learning Theory Maslow’s

Need Hierarchy The Equity Theory Multiple Intellengences Hawthorne Maxwell Covey

Seven Habits of Highly Effective People 1: Be Proactive

2: Begin with the End in Mind

3: Put First Things First

4: Think Win-Win

5: Seek First to Understand, Then to be Understood

6: Synergize

7: Sharpen the Saw

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Contrary to popular belief, these are not the 7 habits…

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21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership

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Transformational Leadership Advocates for school reform also usually advocate altering

power relationships. The problem, explain Douglas Mitchell and Sharon Tucker (1992), is that we have tended to think of leadership as the capacity to take charge and get things done.

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Perhaps it is time, they say, to stop thinking of leadership as aggressive action and more as a way of thinking--about ourselves, our jobs, and the nature of the educational process. Thus, "instructional leadership" is "out" and "transformational leadership" is "in."

Transformational Leadership James MacGregor Burnes was the first to

introduced the concept of transforming leadership. According to Burns, transforming leadership is a process in which "leaders and followers help each other to advance to a higher level of morale and motivation".

The transforming approach redesigns perceptions and

values, and changes expectations and aspirations of employees. Transforming leaders are idealized in the sense that they are a moral exemplar of working towards the benefit of the team, organization and/or community.

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WHAT ARE THE GOALS OF TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP? Helping staff develop and maintain a collaborative,

professional school culture Helping teachers solve problems more effectively Fostering teacher development

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WHAT STRATEGIES DO TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERS USE ?

Visit each classroom every day; assist in classrooms; encourage teachers to visit one another's classes.

ED347636 : Liontos, Lynn Balster, Author

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WHAT STRATEGIES DO TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERS USE?

Involve the whole staff in deliberating on school goals, beliefs, and visions at the beginning of the year.

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WHAT STRATEGIES DO TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERS USE?

Help teachers work smarter by actively placing individual problems in the larger perspective of the whole school; clarify and; and keep the group on task.

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Use action research teams or school improvement teams as a way of sharing power. Give everyone responsibilities and involve staff in governance functions.

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WHAT STRATEGIES DO TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERS USE?

WHAT STRATEGIES DO TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERS USE?

Find the good things that are happening and publicly recognize the work of staff and students who have contributed to school improvement.

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Examples of Success

Leadership Theories & Principles

Challenges

To Education

Examples Of

Success

In the past decade alone he radically and lucratively reordered three markets — music, movies, and mobile telephones. His impact on his original industry, computing, has only grown.” From the November 5, 2009 Fortune’s piece naming Jobs the “CEO of the Decade”.

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Steve Jobs Co-Founder and CEO of Apple Inc.

He is a recognized authority on the psychology of leadership, negotiations, organizational turnaround, and peak performance. He has directly impacted the lives of nearly 50 million people from 80 countries.

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Anthony Robbins Leadership Advisor

Consistently ranked by Forbes Magazine as one of the top two richest men in the world, Gates transformed Microsoft from a $1 million company in 1978 to a market leader in the software industry with revenues of $28.37 billion in 2002.

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Bill Gates Technology Innovator

Born on 29th January 1954 to a single teenage mother, Winfrey had a difficult upbringing, spending six years with her poverty-stricken grandmother, who it is said was so poor she made dresses for the young Oprah out of potato sacks.. Today is considered to be the richest African American of the 21st Century. Forbes‘ lists her as the world’s only black billionaire.

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Oprah Winfrey Entertainment Mogul

Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim Helu, named the world's richest man by Forbes Magazine. Worth over $63 billion, he owns over 200 companies. He is the chairman and chief executive of telecommunications companies Telmex and America Movil.

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Carlos Slim Helu Billionaire Entrepreneur

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After spending 27 years behind bars, emerged to contest South Africa’s first democratic election, which he won and became President. Once in power, he never sought retribution or revenge, instead choosing reconciliation. As a result, he, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.

Nelson Mandela First Democratically Elected President of South Africa

James T. Kirk, “Captain of the U.S.S. Enterprise can was an energetic, hands-on leader. He led every crew excursion to new planets and took an active role in all interactions with new civilizations. He relied heavily on his crew.

From Captain Kirk, managers can learn the power of involving and empowering their staff.” – from Crosstalk: The Journal of Defense Software Engineering, an approved Department of Defense journal

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James T Kirk Fictional Captain of the U.S.S. Enterprise

What Do These Leaders Have In Common?

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Reflections

What It Takes to Be a Great Leader

Good judgment This involves “a capacity for integrating a vast amalgam of constantly changing, multicolored, evanescent, perpetually overlapping data.” A leader with good judgment has a subtle feel for the

texture of his/her circumstance. He/she has a feel for where opportunities lie, what will go together and what will never go together.”

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What It Takes to Be a Great Leader

An instrumental mentality

They do not feel the organization is about them. “They are just God’s temporary instrument in service of a larger cause… This sense of being an instrument gives them an organizing purpose. It gives them a larger perspective, so they don’t get distracted by ephemera.

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A decade of Wallace-sponsored research on school leadership has identified five key functions of effective principals, each of which interacts with and depends on the others: Shaping a vision of academic success for all students, based on high standards. “The School Principal As Leader: Guiding Schools to Better Teaching and Learning” by James Harvey and Holly Holland, The Wallace Foundation, January 2012, HTTP://BIT.LY/ZCVOCB

A Wallace Foundation Report on Effective Principals

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Effective Principals Creating a climate hospitable to education in order that

safety, a cooperative spirit, and other foundations of fruitful interaction prevail; this involves “an upbeat, welcoming, solution-oriented, no-blame, professional environment,” say Harvey and Holland.

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Effective Principals

Cultivating leadership in others so that teachers

and other adults assume their part in realizing the school vision; “if test scores are any indication, the more willing principals are to spread leadership around, the better for students.

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Effective Principals Improving instruction to enable teachers to teach at

their best and students to learn at their utmost; this means frequently spending “time in classrooms... observing and commenting on what’s working well and what is not,” say the authors.

“High-scoring principals believe that every teacher, whether a first-year teacher or a veteran, can learn and grow,” say Harvey and Holland.

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Effective Principals Managing people, data, and processes to foster school improvement.

The most effective principals were tough-minded with

personnel, “aggressively weeding out individuals who did not show the capacity to grow,” say Harvey and Holland. They also ask good questions of teachers, display data in a way that tells a compelling story, and spur collaborative inquiry within teacher teams.

The study says effective principals need to stay put for 5-7 years.

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Newport News Public Schools A success story

Chapter 1: A case story of building sustainable success By Nancy Shin Pascal and Alan M. Blankstein

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Chesterfield County Public Schools A success story…an award winning school district

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The rigor pipeline % of 8th graders successful in Algebra I against CCPS Advanced Target of 85%

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Closing opportunity gaps… AP enrollments increasing in CCPS

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Achievement Gaps Are Closing In Reading

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Percentage Point Increases 2006 to 2009

School SOL Subject Gain

FALLING CREEK MS 7 Math 60.9

SALEM CHURCH MS 6 Math 49.4

BAILEY BRIDGE MS 7 Math 49.4

PROVIDENCE MS 7 Math 63.4

ROBIOUS MS 7 Math 51.9

MATOACA MS 7 Math 46.3

CHESTER MS 6 US HISTORY to 1877 43.0

CARVER MS 7 Math 45.8

MIDLOTHIAN MS 6 US HISTORY to 1877 51.1

MANCHESTER MS 6 US HISTORY to 1877 56.1

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Bensley Elementary School A CCPS Success Story

School Demographics 92% FRM 50% Student Transiency 44% Hispanic 43% African American 11% White 2% Other

2011 SOL Results Reading 91% Math 95% Science 92% History 94% Writing 93%

• Fully accredited by the Virginia Department of Education • Governor’s Award for Excellence • Recipient of the Fordham University/ASCD School Change Award • Title I National Distinguished School Award

Frameworks for implementation 21st Century Leadership Partnership for 21st Century Learning The Framework presents a holistic view of 21st century teaching and learning that combines a discrete focus on 21st century student outcomes (a blending of specific skills, content knowledge, expertise and literacies) with innovative support systems to help students master the multi-dimensional abilities required of them in the 21st century.

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A Vision for Chesterfield County Public Schools

What knowledge, skills, and behaviors do all students need to succeed in the 21st century?

How can schools best prepare students

to be successful and responsible citizens?

If we could design the high school of the future, what would it look like?

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21st Century Academy at Old Clover Hill H.S.

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CCPS Data Recovery & Online Learning

• 28 courses offered currently covering all required graduation credits

• Opportunities to enroll 3,000 students

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CCPS Online Program Growth

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Career & Technical Education Enrollment Growth

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21st Century Career & Technical Education Opportunities

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Engaging Business Partners • Northrop Grumman • Honeywell • DuPont • John Tyler Community College • J. Sergeant Reynolds

Community College • Virginia State University • Virginia Commonwealth

University • Chesterfield Chamber of

Commerce • Chesterfield County Business

Council • Chesterfield Public Education

Foundation

• CCPS Career and Technical Advisory Committee

• Chesterfield County Department of Economic Development

• Chesterfield County Parks and Recreation

• Chesterfield Center for the Arts Foundation

• Chesterfield Children’s Theater • Richmond Ballet • Richmond Symphony • Center Stage

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Transforming the Engagement of Students Learning Algebra (TESLA)

A project of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, funded by the National Science Foundation

Goal: To understand the relationship between technology-based motivational activities, student interest in STEM careers, and student learning in mathematics

CCPS STEM Research Initiative

World Future Society 21st Century Trends

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Top 10 Future Trends (95% accuracy history)

- Alternative energy - Desalination of water - Precision farming - Biometrics - Quantum computers - Entertainment on demand - Global access - Virtual education - Nanotechnology - Smart robots

What Students Need to Know 21st Century Skills and ICT Literacy

The future will demand people who can express themselves effectively with images, animation, sound, and video…

solve real world problems that require processing and analysis of thousands of numbers…

evaluation of information for accuracy, reliability, and validity…

and organize information into valuable knowledge. (2002 report)

NATIONAL ONLINE AND BLENDED LEARNING LANDSCAPE Susan Patrick, President & CEO International Association for K-12 Online Learning

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What Students Want 21st Century Skills and ICT Literacy

NATIONAL ONLINE AND BLENDED LEARNING LANDSCAPE Susan Patrick, President & CEO International Association for K-12 Online Learning

Millennial Mindspace ◦ Global outlook at a younger age ◦ Mobile multi-media, more interactive and community

building, socially networked environments to live, play and learn

◦ TiVo: time shifting, on demand, customization ◦ TV is boring ◦ Customization and personalization ◦ Ability to scrutinize and provide feedback for improvement ◦ Freedom of choices ◦ Constant innovation ◦ Clear guidelines ◦ Stand up talking is deadly

Advice for New Superintendents BY DARRELL G. FLOYD January 2009

The long, arduous superintendent selection process is concluding and now reality is setting in. You will be the next superintendent of schools in a new school district.

What now? What steps should you take to ensure a smooth transition and a successful beginning? (101-112).

Communicate early and often. Begin to communicate with the key players in the community and school district.

Do your homework. Thoroughly research the

school district’s data. Leave no stone unturned in this area.

Advice for New Superintendents

Advice for New Superintendents Don’t make hasty changes. Every school district has

challenges, but most also have traditions, historical achievements and honors of the past.

Get out and about in the community. Especially in the first few months of your tenure, begin

to build relationships within the community.

Advice for New Superintendents

Listen, listen, listen. As you make your rounds in schools and to community events, listen for

what is said and what is not said.

Develop at least three non-negotiables of your own and then verbalize them often. Folks need to know what you stand for and what is not negotiable for you.

Develop a game plan for solving at least one major issue in your first year.

Advice for New Superintendents

Advice for New Superintendents

Don’t forget about your own professional development. As author Stephen Covey says, you’ve got to “sharpen your own saw.” If you don’t, you will not move forward in your career

as an effective school leader.

7 Leadership Lessons from the of the Wizard of Oz 1. There’s no place like home, and no motivator like clarity

of purpose 2. Exceptional Teamwork works 3. Head, Heart, Courage, and Spirit are cornerstones of

character 4. Deal with what comes at you...don’t lose faith. 5. Understand who you really are 6. Framing can be magical 7. No one else can do it for you by Tom Stevens (c)2009; www.ThinkLeadershipIdeas.com

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No one can make you a leader; you must experience it for yourself

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