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Jennifer Miller, Director, Technology Support Services – Performance Excellence June 7, 2018

Jon Gordon –The Power of Positive

Your vision is greater than your circumstances. Don't focus on

your challenge, focus on where you are going.

1 Lead with the vision

2 Choose a word - every year ever person on your team

3 Lead with optimism, belief, and positivity

4 Lead with faith not fear -

5 Positive leaders do not ignore the negativity.

6 Take Action

Celeste Headlee - We Need to Talk, How to Have

Conversations that Matter

Be intentional about the way you use conversation - It's really

all about listening.

Eric Cupp - Plates and PrioritiesStop and reflect.

Say no to more.

Think beyond today.

Make hard decisions/choices.

Use time wisely.

Focus - Be excellent at what you do rather than being

mediocre at everything

Sacrifice - Every "no" is a "yes" somewhere else

Becky Denton – When Love Does

1 Builds kingdoms - not castles

2 Tell people who they are and not just what to

do - speak words of truth and admiration

3 Stop faking who you are and who you say you

are - just live it

4 Stop collecting tickets

5 Fly your plane low - Understand that you have

to go through uncomfortable places to grow

6 Be willing to try impossible things because you

surround yourself with people you can trust

Personal Reflection

These 4 speakers challenged me the most to

find a new path. My word(s) for the year were

positive perspective. During RRR this was a

resounding theme. Identifying and finding the

positive, being intentional, being selective

regarding how I choose to spend my time, and

becoming willing to try the impossible. These

are the items that I will spend the rest of the year

2018 focusing.

RRR 10th Anniversary

Key Takeaways

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2018 RRR Conference

RRR 2018 – Rigor, Relevance, Relationships

Name, Title June 5, 2018

The Rigor Relevance, and Relationship Conference began bright and early Tuesday, June 5th at the Berry Center.

The Technology team was in place and available to assist with support as well as participate in multiple

conference sessions. This conference provides the team an opportunity to hear from international speakers like

Jon Gordon, Celeste Headlee, David Anthony as well as our own Becky Denton, Reggie Mitchell, Susan Brenz,

and Mary Smith.

https://sites.google.com/a/cfisd.net/cfisd-rrr-leadership-conference-2016/home

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The Power of Positive Leadership

Jon Gordon



How to improve education?

Put great leaders in every school

Power of Positive Leadership

Starts with a vision - where are we going?

If you can see it - you can create it

Must share with your staff - here is where we are going

Yes we had a challenge, but here is where we are going

Share the vision every day - every meeting - Why am I here?

Your vision is greater than your circumstances. Don't focus on your challenge, focus on where you are going.

Number 1 - Lead with the vision

Number 2 - Do the "One word" activity - every year ever person on your team - What word will empower

you?

Number 3 - Lead with optimism, belief, and positivity

Number 4 - Lead with faith not fear -

Number 5 - Positive leaders do not ignore the negativity. They work to address it, transform it, and then

remove it if not changed.

Number 6 - Take Action

Communication - builds a great relationship - teamwork, trust, great results

Connect - you won’t have connection without commitment and you won't have commitment

without connection

Commitment - service and sacrifice

Care - care about what you do and who you do it with

How and Why Positive

Leaders Transform Teams

and Organizations and

Change the World

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We Need to Talk, How to Have

Conversations that Matter



You have more in common with any other human on the planet. You can talk to anyone because you have a lot

in common with anyone - you don't have to talk about what you might argue about.

Be intentional about the way you use digital conversation

It's really all about listening.

10 tips1. Don't multitask!!

2. Don't try to educate people. Don't try to change

someone's

mind. People don't listen when you lecture.

3. Open ended questions - In times of stress, the best

thing we can do for each other is to listen with our

ears and our hearts and to be assured that our

questions are just as important as

our answers. Fred Rogers

4. Go with the flow of the conversation.

5. If you don't know, don't guess. Just say you don't

know.

6. Don't equate your experience with other people

7. Don't repeat yourself

8. Stay out of the weeds

9. Listen

10. Be briefCeleste Headlee

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Plates and Priorities



Dr. Eric Cupp is participating in his 8th RRR conference. He began his discussion asking the level of craziness of

all of our lives. His presentation focused on the seasons of life, our values, and priorities. He reminded us that

our priorities shift , goals come and go, but in the end, they should always follow our values.

Stop and Reflect –

Stop - Set your priorities in order. It won't

happen by itself.

Reflect - what are my values and how have

my priorities gotten skewed?

Are you putting your priorities where they

should be?

Say no to more

Don't serve on too many committees

Don't start too many committees

Delegate more

Think beyond today.

Make hard decisions/choices.

Use time wisely - limited supply.

Make good use of your time

Focus - doing everything leads to mediocrity.

Be excellent at what you do rather than being mediocre

at everything

Sacrifice - Every "no" is a "yes" somewhere else.

Dr. Eric Cupp

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Plates and Priorities



Dr. Eric Cupp is participating in his 8th RRR conference. He began his discussion asking the level of craziness of

all of our lives. His presentation focused on the seasons of life, our values, and priorities. He reminded us that

our priorities shift, goals come and go, but in the end, they should always follow our values.

Focus on what you can change because focusing

on what you can't control will kill you.

1. What is more important to you? - family, health,

faith,

2. Get an action plan.

3. Slot time for tasks. - put your action plan in action

- remove some things that aren't important to you

4. How do you want to live your life? You only get

one shot. - Build your priorities over what is

important to you

5. Talk to someone.

6. Make a list of what you want to accomplish in a

week or every day. - Celebrate what you get done.

7. Map out your days.

8. Get rid of distractions when you want to get your

priorities in order.

9. Reflect to improve yourself, not to kick yourself.

Slow down. Review the year.

10. What can you eliminate?

11. Change.

12. Focus on what you can control - not on what you

can't.

Dr. Eric Cupp

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Making Tough Decisions and Still Getting

Some Sleep



The study of procedures for deciding the right course

of action in any given situation.

Decisions are made with your head and your heart

We all have filters through which decisions flow:

Values and beliefs

Wants and needs

Relationships

Wisdom

Two ways of making decisions:That which is right is that which brings

the best results.

That which most closely conforms to

established rules, norms, principles.

It is complex to make decisions, relax Decisions are made in 2 forms

Utilitarianism: Cost-benefit, impact studies,

majority vote. Answers the question – “What

does the most good for the most people?”

Formalism: Uniforms, hours of operation,

constitutional rights, doctrine. Rule oriented –

and answers the question “What is the right

thing to do?”

Dr. Eric Cupp

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Making Tough Decisions and Still Getting

Some Sleep



A THEORY OF ADEQUATE REASONName the decision: _______ . . .

List your alternatives:

List criteria by which to evaluate your alternatives: (limit

your information)

Select an alternative that satisfies your dominant criteria

Choose only 3 - 5 criteria to establish the decision

Factors

Dominant factors Uncompensated factors

Intrinsic factors Will you be ok with the

decision?

Are you being challenged too much to do this?

Considerations

Is there a precedent for this decision?

Are there any situations like this elsewhere?

Would you be willing to apply this rule to yourself?

Are there any core principles we are ignoring?

For Individual Decisions

Will I regret doing/not doing this?

Of what am I afraid?

What does my heart say?

For who am I doing this?

Will I like myself later?

Can I deal with the repercussions

Educators should always have a

“Kid Filter” on and working

Dr. Eric Cupp

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The Clarity of the Message

Brad Domitrovich

RRR 2018 – Rigor, Relevance, RelationshipsJune 5, 2018

People are bombarded by messages all of the time.

Key Questions

• How clear is your message?

• How well do you tell your story?

• Who is your primary audience?

• What is your vision?

• How was your school year?

• How well do you tell your story?

Remember that the goals of your communication should

always reflect back to your overall campus/district goals.

Your goals:

Promote success

Promote safety

Promote information

Think about your goals - are the positives shared first?

The four I's of Messaging

Inform Instruct Inspire Influence

Possible Message Filters

Language Age Culture Education

Think about message in terms of "telling a story"

What you should always do:

• Deliver a great message.

• Provide accurate and trustworthy information

• Keep community confidence high.

• Make your school stand out from the others.

If you want to communicate a message that will be

remembered - repeat it at least 7 times.

Your best messaging tools:

Individual Conversation Parent Meetings

Personalized Letters/E-Mails Staff Meetings

Community Gatherings

Make sure you are you trustworthy

The best communication is built on relationships

Jennifer Miller, Director, Technology Support Services – Performance Excellence

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Leadership for Student Success and Teacher

Efficacy: Go Big or Go Home!! Dr. Anthony



We need leadership in education at every juncture in

education.

People don't care how smart you are - they care

about what you do.

Instead of talking about something, we should just

get out and do it.

An idea doesn't have a worth until it is acted upon. -

Andy Stoll

Be a thoughtful and responsive leader

Effective School Correlates• Climate of high expectations

• Frequent monitoring of student progress

• Opportunity to learn and student time on task

• Safe and orderly environment

• Positive home-school relations

• Strong instructional leadership

• Clear and focused mission

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to

continue that counts.

- Winston Churchill

Successful people aren't born that way. They become

successful by establishing the habit of doing things

unsuccessful people don't like to do.

The successful people don't always like doing these things

themselves; they just get on and do them.

- Charles DeLint

Seven Characteristics of a Good Leader - based on the

Leadership of Sargent Shriver1. A sense of purpose

2. Justice

3. Temperance

4. Respect

5. Empowerment

6. Courage

7. Deep Commitment

David Anthony

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We need to create learning experiences

that provoke deeper student reflection

Bonus idea: Help teachers find the courage to be less helpful

Leading Students Into Their Digital Future

Peter Pappas



5 ideas for leading students into their digital future1. We need to teach a new (digital) literacy

• Find, decode, critically evaluate information

• Curate, store, responsibly share information

• Critically evaluate and responsibly share

2. What’s the information landscape of the

classroom

• How do you share information?

• Are we squandering valuable instructional time

with basic transfer of information?

• Sharing information is easy - the tough part is

assimilation

• Goal: Class time is focused on student

collaboration and problem solving. Teacher

coaches.

3. Make sure we are teaching HOTS and using

the tools to support mastery (Rigor)

4. Is learning personalized by student choice and reflection

on their progress?

• Relevance

• Personalize learning with student choice

• Content - what knowledge and skills will be studied?

• Process - what materials, procedures, etc will be used?

• Product - what will students produce to demonstrate their

learning?

• Evaluation - how will the learning be assessed?

Learning is relevant when the student:

• Understands how this information or skill has some

application in their life.

• Has an opportunity to follow their own process rather

than just learn "the facts."

• Is not just learning content and skills, but is reflecting on

their work and their

5. How can tech safely connect student voice with the

global community? (Relationships)

How can we safely extend the audience beyond the

classroom?

Challenge for educational leaders: What happens in schools, now that life's become an open book test?

Who is using technology? How are students using technology?

Is BYOD leveraged as an asset or considered a distraction?

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6 Things Love Does

1 Builds kingdoms - not castles

Castles

Trolls, dungeons, motes, filled with

only people who look like them

Kingdoms

Treat trolls with respect, grace,

bridges, filled with people who don't

look like, act like each other

Build a circle and invite everyone

2 Tell people who they are and not just what to do

- say something good about others - speak words

of truth and admiration

Just love the people in front of you

People grow where they are loved and

accepted

3 Stop faking who you are and who you say you

are - just live it

Just be you!!!

Trade the appearance of who you are

and do what you say you are doing

Examine what you are rehearsing and

memorizing

4 Stop collecting tickets

Just do things because it’s the right thing to

do, don't worry about what others are doing

People will remember how you treated people

5 Fly your plane low - Understand that you have to

go through uncomfortable places to grow

We were born to be brave. We can't wait for

all of the answers to do something.

If it's not working the way you are doing it,

why are you afraid to do something

differently?

Don't be so afraid!!! - Just love people

Find what delights you - what do you feel

deep down in your heart

6 Be willing to try impossible things because you

surround yourself with people you can trust

You become like the people you hang around with all day

You end up going wherever they're headed

Make sure you are with people going in a direction you

like.

Look for people that will develop you - get in the right car.

If we have today - we have a reason for today - days are limited!!!!!

Life can be a sweepstakes, but you have to be present to win.

When Love Does

Becky Denton



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