woodbury high professional workshop 2010
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Coming Together“Commit to Engage”
9.02.10
Woodbury High School
Jackie Roosevelt
Richard
Nicole
Meet..
Natasha
Core Team & Project M Students
Meet..
Less than 40 to 60% ENGAGED
Come Together
● Create safe space
● Connect and create trust
● Break down limiting beliefs
● Establish networks of support
● So we can commit to engage!
Come Together
ENGAGED has three elements
Thinking Feeling Action
The Gap…
We CAN Promise
You will have opportunities to:
● Move – body, mind, emotions
● Be challenged and grow
● Have fun
● Shift your perspective
We CAN’T promise:
● You will move.
● You will be challenged and grow.
● You will have fun.
● You will shift your perspective.
● Believe ALL children can learn
● Believe ALL children will learn because of what we do
● Feel excited to ENGAGE all students
Impact
Outcomes
● Create a vision for how to ENGAGE self and students
● Create action plans for engaging all staff and students
● Commit to engage ALL students
● Turn off cell phones
● Fast pace, perspectives… “notice without judgment”
● Challenge by choice
● Respectful challenges …discovery
● Accommodate your learning style
● Your ideas?
● Confidentiality
Agreements
● WELCOME 8:00 – 8:20
● VISION 8:20 – 8:40
● CONNECT 8:40 – 9:15
● CALIBRATE 9:15 – 9:50
● BREAK 9:50 -10:00
● PERSPECTIVES 10:00 – 10:45
● BREAKING LIMITING BELIEFS 10:45 –11:30
● INTEGRATE 11:30 – 12:10
● CLOSE 12:10 – 12:15
Agenda
Vision
● Find a person you don’t know
● Pair up with two more groups to make a total of 6
● Ask for a scribe and a group voice
● Raise your hand if ….
● Share your NAME
● Think back to the time you got into teaching and share what you loved about it
Get into small groups
What is a PLC?“A Professional Learning Community is a group of educators committed to working collaboratively in ongoing processes of collective inquiry and action research in order to achieve better results for the students they serve. PLC’s operate under the assumption that the key to improved learning for students is continuous, job-embedded learning for educators”
DuFour, et. al, 2006
● Ensuring that Students Learn
● Collaborative Culture
● Focus on Results
Three BIG ideas
• Shared Mission, Vision, Values, and Goals• Collective Inquiry• Collaborative Culture• Action Orientation and Experimentation• Continuous Improvement• Focus on Results
Six Characteristics of PLC
LEARNING
● What do we want students to learn?
● How do we know if they have learned?
● How do we respond when students do not learn?
What Results Matter?
●Technical
●Cultural
Two Forms of Change in a PLC
Technical
Technical changes are changes in learning tools/structure
1. Collaborative time
2. Common assessments
3. Data
4. Educational Technology
5. Support Classes
Technical Change
Common Misconceptions about Technical Changes
● Changing the structure will lead to higher levels of learning (“Rearranging the seats on the Titanic”)
● Technical changes make up for poor instruction or unprofessionalism
● Technical changes will “fix” kids or “fix” schools which are broken (i.e. dress codes, longer school day)
South Washington County Schools . . . empowering all learners with
the knowledge, skills and attitudes for success.www.sowashco.k12.mn.us
TOOLS:• Strategic Plan• Core Values • SIPs & DIPs• Staff Motivation• Continuous Improvement• Purpose, Passion, Positive
Moving People from…
●Technical
●Cultural
Two Forms of Change in a PLC
Cultural
School Culture
“School culture is the set of norms, values, and beliefs, rituals and ceremonies,
symbols and stories that make up the ‘persona’ of the school”
Kent Peterson (2002)
“Healthy” School Culture
“Educators have an unwavering belief in the ability of all of their students to achieve success, and they pass that belief on to
others in overt and covert ways. Educators create policies and procedures
and adopt practices that support their belief in the ability of every student.”
Kent Peterson (2002)
“Toxic” School Culture
“Educators believe that student success is based upon students’ level of concern, attentiveness, prior knowledge, and willingness to comply with the demands of the school, and they articulate that belief in overt and covert ways. Educators
create policies and procedures and adopt practices that support their belief in the impossibility of universal achievement.”
Kent Peterson (2002)
“Frustration” – The Root of a Toxic Culture
Frustration = “A feeling of anxiety as a result of the inability to perform a task”
● A miss-match between skill set and task
● Causes people to deflect blame onto others and create covert alliances with people experiencing similar struggle
Good to Great, Jim Collins
What do great corporations/organizations do differently than good/average
organizations?
1.They seek and confront the “brutal facts”
2.They get the right people on the “bus” and sit them in the “right seats”
● All Children Can Learn
● All Children Will Learn Because of What We Do
(All children DO learn, they just do not always learn what we want them to learn)
Two Underlying Assumptions in a PLC
● What do you see/notice when students are engaged?
● What do you see/notice when staff are engaged?
● What assumptions get/might get in the way of that?
Exercise
Our Students ENGAGED!
• This school year ALL students will ______
• Because ALL staff will _______________
• Because ALL students will ____________
• Because ALL students will ____________.
Create Your Vision
Write in BIG letters
Share Vision Statements
• This school year ALL students will ______
• Because ALL staff will _______________
• Because ALL students will ____________
• Because ALL students will ____________.
Create Your Vision
Connect
We will move
Warm Up Exercise in Large Group
● Find a person you don’t know
● Pair up with two more groups to make a total of 6
● Ask for a scribe and a group voice
Get into small groups
● Purpose
● Demo
● Practice
Designing an Alliance
● What? (did you notice)
● So what? (could that mean)
● Now what? (will you do)
Process
Move to the
BREAK
● Find a person you don’t know
● Pair up with two more groups to make a total of 6
● Ask for a scribe and a group voice
Get into small groups
Perspectives
Journey to the Heart
Breaking Limiting Beliefs
Integrate
What NOW?
Background
What do you know?
Vision
Analysis
Recommendations
What now?
Impact/Value
Why is this important?
Why are we talking about it?
What is the problem?
Where do we stand and assumptions? What are the symptoms?
Where do we need to be?
What is the specific change you want to accomplish now?
What is this REALLY about?
What is the root cause(s) of the problem?
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What is possible?
What is your proposal to address this?
What can we Try?
What activities will be required for implementation and who will be responsible for what and when?
How do we know we did a good job?
How we will know if the actions have the impact needed? What remaining issues can be anticipated?
COMING TOGETHER: Commit to ENGAGE 9.02.2010
Close
Thank You!
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MINDFUL INNOVATION, INC. www.mindfulinnovation.com
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