instructional leadership supporting high standards

InstructionalLeadership

SupportingHigh Standards

© AZ Board of Regents, All rights reserved, 2012.

• Name of Superintendent

– Welcome

– Why Important

Welcome


• Name of Facilitator

– Overview / Agenda

– Enduring Understandings

– Guiding Questions

– Targeted Objectives

– Introductions

Overview & Introductions

Proposed Norms & ExpectationsProposed Norms & Expectations• Stay focused and fully engaged

– no competing conversations please• Participate to grow

– share openly and monitor your listening• Be a learner

– create your own meaning and application• Get your needs met

– ask questions that benefit the group– personal questions on breaks

• Housekeeping– silence cell phones– handle business later– share ONE point …then next person


Instructional LeadershipCore Component is Managed through Key Processes


• There are individual, team and school goals for rigorous student academic and social learning.

High Standards for Student Learning


• Encourages students to successfully achieve rigorous goals for student learning– Promotes recognition and rewards for students who

achieve high standards of academic learning

• Supports teachers in meeting school goals• Supports teachers in helping students reach high

standards of learning– Provides safety nets so all students can meet high

standards of learning.

• Create conditions that help faculty and students reach ambitious learning targets

Research-based Critical Behaviors


• Review & make notes regarding…– Definition of core component (top)

– Definition of key process (left-top)

– Research-Based Critical Behaviors

• Rate self

– 5 = highly effective

– 3 = effective

– 1 = ineffective

• List evidence to support rating

Action Plan


• How do instructional leaders use research findings to focus their leadership on sustain high standards?

Supporting High Standards Segment Guiding Questions


Distribute handout: Believe in Me• Poem: “Believe In Me”

– by Principal Dave Hardy, Achievement First East New York Middle School

• Play video:• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiiNgF2upXc&f

eature=player_detailpage

Believe in Me


• First as a table group

– Compare lists of items in each column from each person in your group.

– Which items support sustaining high standards in Principal Hardy’s school?

• Which 1-2 are most significant?

Discussion


• Now let’s share our collective observations about Dave Hardy’s beliefs about …

– Which items support sustaining high standards in Principal Hardy’s school?

• Which 1 is most significant?

Discussion


• Read the article: McRel’s Balanced Leadership Framework: Developing the Science of Educational Leadership by Waters, Marzano & McNulty

• Consider how the experts’ insights FIT into your foundational knowledge of what makes…– a strong instructional leader

– a principal with High Standards for Student Learning

Global Picture:What do the Experts Say?


• Read the article: Balanced Leadership Framework: Developing the Science of Educational Leadership

• Everyone – Reads page 1-5 (including Figure 3)• A Read pp 5 - 7 The Differential… & The Focus…• B Read pp 7 - 8 The Magnitude…• C Read pp 8 - 9 Continuing Research …• Identify and record:

– + for key concepts & ideas– “star” something you think is significant and you might want

to implement in your school

• Be prepared to teach your section to the rest of the group.

Global Picture:What do the Experts Say


• Working as a table group

– Teach the group your section

– Discuss Figure 3

– Discuss how each impacts sustaining high standards

• The Differential Impact of Leadership

• The Focus of Change

• The Magnitude or “Order” of Change

– Identify 3-5 responsibilities that your group believes are most significant in sustaining high standards in a school



• Whole group share

– Each group will share ONE identified responsibility

• We may go “round-robin” 2 or 3 times to enable all groups to share their thoughts



Focus on critical responsibilities• Ideals/Beliefs• Optimize• Focus• Discipline• Affirmation• Change Agent• Culture of Learning

NAESP research converted to McREL vocabulary

Sustaining High Standards


• Compare the lists from …

– Principal Hardy’s video

– McREL’s article

– NAESP research

• How can your school benefit from a focus on these responsibilities?

Connecting article & Video…


Spend a Buck (100 pennies)• Focusing on the 7 leadership responsibilities

– The NAESP short list

• Making Choices…

– Individually - Reflect on the behavior and the value you will place on each behavior (record your thoughts)

– Group - Discuss within the group, and come to consensus as a group for the value placed on each behavior (record)

– Be prepared to share your reasons for your choice regarding bang for the buck (payoff choices)

Connect…Principal Supporting High Standards for Student Learning – Principal Behaviors


Spend a Buck (100 pennies)

• Share your choices

– Provide an explanation of WHY you put the most pennies into one responsibility

Connect…Principal Supporting High Standards for Student Learning – Principal Behaviors


'Through learning we re-create ourselves. Through learning we become able to do something we were never able to do.'

Peter Senge

Sustaining High Standards for Student Learning


• Consider the Guiding Question

• Use column labeled “Strategies/Ideas” – connect today’s work with the “Research-

Based Critical Behaviors.”– List at least THREE things per box

• Pair Share ONE strategy you learned today and how you plan to use it at your school.

Closure for this Segment

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• Review the following…– Targeted Objectives– Research-Based Critical Behaviors

• Next Steps – What additional data do you need?– Who will you involve in process? – What resources do you need?

• Action Plan– Do what? – By when?

Conclusion and Development of an Action Plan


• In table groups (in a round robin format)– Share one new learning and describe how

you will apply it in your job– NO REPEATS!

Workshop Closure


• Please complete “Participant Feedback” form

– Grant research

– Improve future workshops

Workshop Closure

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