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Slide 2 To access todays presentation on your Mobile Devicesgo to District.sumterschools.net Teacher Forum Tab at the top (double click) WOW.CERRA presentation 1CERRA Teacher Forum Slide 3 Working on the WORK Discovering the Teacherpreneur in YOU! Libby Ortmann CERRA Teacher Forum Conference February 2014 2CERRA Teacher Forum Slide 4 What to Expect Today Learn about Design Thinking Reflect on and Identify inner landscape characteristics Data Sharing Teacher Learning Look at Leadership Barriers Models of Leadership Working on the Work 3CERRA Teacher Forum Slide 5 Where does your inner landscape take you? 4CERRA Teacher Forum Slide 6 Cognitive Shift to consider All leaders?? Really?? Ineffective To bring about an effective wave of change, requires brave, bold followers Model what a first follower does to bring the biggest impact to the wave or movement CERRA Teacher Forum5 Key Takeaway #1 Slide 7 Blurring the lines between those who teach and those who lead 6CERRA Teacher Forum Key Takeaway #2 Slide 8 ConsiderHOW 7CERRA Teacher Forum Key Takeaway #3 Slide 9 What would it look like if? Your school Your department Your colleagues Your teacher forum Your district Your county Your state Our nation 8CERRA Teacher Forum Slide 10 9 Slide 11 Q: A school principal s responsibilities today are very similar to his or her responsibilities five years ago. 2012 MetLife Survey of The American Teacher: Challenges for School Leadership Strongly/Somewhat agree (Net): 30% Strongly/Somewhat disagree (Net): 69% 10CERRA Teacher Forum Slide 12 Q: The job of the principal has become too complex 2012 MetLife Survey of The American Teacher: Challenges for School Leadership 11CERRA Teacher Forum Slide 13 Q: Teachers interested in becoming principals 2012 MetLife Survey of The American Teacher: Challenges for School Leadership 12CERRA Teacher Forum Slide 14 Q: Teachers interested in teaching AND leading (hybrid roles) 2012 MetLife Survey of The American Teacher: Challenges for School Leadership 13CERRA Teacher Forum Slide 15 TEACHING 2030 CERRA Teacher Forum14 Slide 16 What about the WORK? http://www.teachingquality.org/about/teachi ng-2030 http://www.teachingquality.org/about/teachi ng-2030 15CERRA Teacher Forum Slide 17 3 paths to teacher quality Fire the bad teachers Recruit better teachers Invest in the teachers we haveand help spread the expertise of our most effective ones (thats YOU) 16CERRA Teacher Forum Slide 18 Teachers Learn in Bold Ways When: Pre-service and PD programs include opportunities for reciprocal mentoring Externships offer chances to learn the language of boundary- spanning organizations System leaders know how to identify and support teacher leaders Schools carve out time and schedules so teachers can spread their expertise Teachers can travel to see and experience best policies and practices Teachers write and speak to public audiences 17CERRA Teacher Forum Slide 19 Barriers to teacher leadership are removed when: Pre-service and PD programs prepare administrators to develop teacher leaders; State and local policies encourage school districts to reallocate resources and rethink curriculum in ways that capitalize on teacher leadership; Evaluation and compensation place a premium on teachers who spread their expertise; Principals are assessed and rewarded for creating school cultures that allow for teacher leadership. 18CERRA Teacher Forum Slide 20 Teachers leading without leaving: International examples Roles that teacher leaders play in Singapore: Lead lesson studies and action research Conduct peer review and teaching evaluations Organize home visits Develop and score student assessments Mentor new teachers Support curricular reforms as subject-matter specialists Build partnerships with nonprofits 19CERRA Teacher Forum Slide 21 Chapter Two: Defining the Teacherpreneur Classroom experts who continue to teach students regularly (daily) but also have time, space, and reward to lead pedagogical and policy reforms. 20CERRA Teacher Forum Slide 22 21 Slide 23 Intelligent humility Making great teaching visible Well-traveledness Reciprocal mentoring Right stuff Cultivating other teacher leaders Teacherpreneurial Rsum 22CERRA Teacher Forum Slide 24 Lori Nazareno-CTQ Teacherpreneur There are at least 1 in 3 teachers in America who can do what I have done under the right the conditions. 23CERRA Teacher Forum Slide 25 The first three waves of teacher leadership 24CERRA Teacher Forum Slide 26 Wave 1: 1940s - Grade level and department chair or committee. Wave 2: 1970s - Focus on coaching and mentoring. Not well implemented. Wave 3: 1990s - Professional learning communities, but mostly top down. Source: York-Barr & Duke First Three Waves 25CERRA Teacher Forum Slide 27 The fourth wave of teacher leadership Teacherpreneurs who incubate and execute their ideas 26CERRA Teacher Forum Slide 28 27CERRA Teacher Forum Slide 29 Influence on others 28CERRA Teacher Forum Slide 30 What are the roles of people you influence the most? (pick top five) Teachers: 100% (12) Students: 83.3% (10) Parents: 83.3% (10) Building level administrators: 66.7% (8) Specialists: 50% (6) PSTA leaders: 41.7% (5) Least: Feds, higher ed, state DOE 29CERRA Teacher Forum Slide 31 Growth and learning 30CERRA Teacher Forum Slide 32 Vision for Teacher Leaders Lead profession Advocate for students Change attitudes about teaching and leading 31CERRA Teacher Forum Slide 33 Protocol for Rotating Panel See the empty chair? As participants on the panel respond to the questions and you listen to their comments, you are invited to come up and sit in the empty chair. A panel member will then swim out of the fishbowl, leaving another empty chair to be filled as someone else is moved to participate. Let s have a conversation! 32CERRA Teacher Forum YOU Slide 34 Riding the wave Consider two or three teacher leader roles that would be of great benefit to your school-district (newly created or building on existing roles). Barriers or challenges Benefits 33CERRA Teacher Forum Slide 35 Riding the wave What areas of work would you like your Teacher Forum to focus on if you have more teacher leaders engaged in the work? 34CERRA Teacher Forum Slide 36 Conversation Points to Ponder CERRA Teacher Forum35 Slide 37 Who are your first tier teacher leaders? Name Areas of expertise Degree of involvement Untapped potential 36CERRA Teacher Forum T 1 T 2 T 3 Slide 38 If the teacher leaders you listed from previous slide were to go away whos next to lead? Name Areas of expertise Degree of involvement Untapped potential Preparing/supporting the next wave 37CERRA Teacher Forum Slide 39 Whats the Point? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW8amMCV AJQ&feature=player_embedded https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW8amMCV AJQ&feature=player_embedded Take chances to LEAD Throw yourself into it with passion Be brave and others will follow 38CERRA Teacher Forum Slide 40 Discover the Teacherpreneur in YOU Be BOLD SET the Table CREATE the MENU where leaders are CHOOSERS 39CERRA Teacher Forum Slide 41 Working on the Work Libby.ortmann@sumterschools.net 40CERRA Teacher Forum