tli 2014 leader orientation

For Teachers, By Teachers Teacher Leadership Initiative

Year Two Pilot Leader Orientation Session

September 22, 2014

Welcome! TEACHER LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE 2

Where are you?

The TLI Experience – What and How

Innova7ve Leadership

Content Strands

Capstone Por<olio

Innova7ve Leadership Modules

Develop knowledge, skills, and disposi7ons as teacher

leaders

Framing the context for teacher leadership

Crea5ng ideas that transform

Communica5ng about teacher leadership

Prac5cing collabora5ve leadership

Advoca5ng for a transformed profession Content Strand Op7ons

Choose one strand for delving deeper into content and strategies to support capstone

Common Core

School Redesign

Teacher Evalua5on

Diversity, Equity, & Cultural Competency* *(under development)

Capstone Por<olio

Project Pathways: Associa5on Leadership

Policy Leadership Instruc5onal Leadership

Por<olio Sec7ons:

Contextual informa5on Challenge descrip5on

Plan and Implementa5on Effec5veness

Reflec5on and Next Steps

Independent Study

Face-‐to-‐Face

Zoom Blackboard Elluminate

Collaboratory

C O M P E T E N C I E S

TEACHER LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE 4

The TLI Experience – When

Fall 2014 – Summer 2015 Project development, project implementation, and Capstone Portfolio submission

Fall 2014 – Winter 2014

Orientation, Innovative Leadership Curriculum

Winter/Spring 2015 Content Strands

Leading TLI TEACHER LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE 5

Face-to-face meetings with state

association leaders

TLI Cohort

Association Staff

State/Local Coach

VCO Facilitator

State/Local Coach

Facilitator Leads synchronous meetings, prepares presentations, identifies webinar guests, posts asynchronous discussion threads, organizes leader meetings to ensure the VCO is prepared to assist participants in small groups, and participates in the discussion threads. Virtual Community Organizer Sends group emails, schedules synchronous sessions, actively facilitates, and serves as the main point of contact with participants. State/Local Coach Supports participants, prepares for and facilitates face-to-face meetings (along with association), supports participants in the Capstone Portfolio process

Your Leaders (Fall 2014) TEACHER LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE 6

State/Local Facilitator VCO Coaches Arizona Sandy Merz Christie Olsen Beth Slaine, Kristie Martorelli

Colorado Lori Nazareno Jozette Martinez Shawn Carstensen-Hays, Kelly Hanson, Mykel Donnelly

Hawaii Shannon Cde Baca Jennifer Skellet Tracey Idica, Jonathan Gillentine

Iowa Bill Farmer Kathy Pham Mark Sovers, Sue Cahill

Maryland Rob Kriete Anne Sesnek Rayna Miller, Betsy Bratek

Massachusetts Wendi Pillars Dave Orphal Gary Gilardi, Mary Chamberlain

Michigan Andrea Pyatt Cossondra George Ellen Daniel, Susan Duda Osborne

Minnesota Marsha Ratzel Kimberly Long Jodi Olson, Jennifer Kohan

Mississippi Beth Perce Deidra Gammill Erica Jones, April Holifield-Scott

Montana Marcia Powell Liz Ridgeway Anne Keith, Shelly Stanton

Ohio Sarah Henchey Tricia Ebner TBD

Utah Sharon Wright Darlene Pope Jenny Graviet, Denise Ulrich

Innovative leadership curriculum (October – December 2014)


Module Title Possible Timeline 1 Framing the context for teacher

leadership October 6-10 – Webinar #1

2 Creating ideas that transform October 13-17 – Webinar #2 October 20-24 – Webinar #3

3 Communicating to advance teacher leadership work

October 27-31 – Videoconference November 3-7 – Webinar #4

4 Practicing collaborative leadership November 10-14 – Videoconference November 17-21 – Partner activity

5 Advocating for a transformed profession

December 1-5 – Webinar #5 December 8-12 – Webinar #6

Most modules have pre-work and post-work. These discussion threads will be posted in your state’s lab in the CTQ Collaboratory:

www.teachingquality.org

Content Strands (January – April 2015) Choose one of the following:

Common Core, focused on not only sharpening the alignment of your own teaching with the new standards, but preparing you to lead other teachers’ shifts in practice through better facilitation of PLCs, use video-based tools to share expertise among classrooms and schools, develop effective professional learning for colleagues, and advocate for effective teaching and learning through the standards; School redesign, considering all the ways we can (and should) transform schools to promote teaching and learning of 21st century skills. This strand includes discussion of designing and implementing programs like more and better learning time (MBLT), other innovative ways of “re-using” existing resources and staff in schools, and even laying the groundwork to plan your own teacher-powered school; and Teaching evaluation, which covers research-based approaches to designing evaluations, considerations for implementing them successfully, and tools for understanding and communicating systems that can sometimes be very complex, technical, and hard to grasp. Equity, diversity, and cultural competence (under development now!)


Content and Delivery for Innovative Leadership and Content Strands:

•  Independent Study: Pre-activities for reflection & planning •  Face-to-Face meetings: Capstone, TLI Competencies •  Zoom: Videoconferencing in small groups www.zoom.us

•  Blackboard Collaborate: Webinars •  CTQ Collaboratory: Discussion threads www.teachingquality.org


Cohort Participant Rosters TEACHER LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE 10

State/Local Please encourage your cohort to update this list!

Arizona https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15V2or_77S3ctw7SAqMGtMiQV3nrguD-lD7zSz7SN2-U/edit#gid=0

Colorado https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QoiUdYb3EoZv3-fyLQSvfD2TOpEseUaQRu3W8MIjCCY/edit#gid=0

Hawaii https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10tmd5v8m5cKN5KQgKJdWdBLdJJRuvG4Sv4j7M_x3ykQ/edit#gid=843437241

Iowa https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1lizTBOChrRlf_KQvRLKy-MSon9bYP1yv66NdLJpLty0/edit#gid=1728173279

Maryland Coming soon…

Massachusetts https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15lx7TAGRJzQa8U7iGqO3RtmYi1oisGdDAmpI8nbsEeI/edit#gid=1286634235

Michigan https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_MWcsL_IMNUlKBTg-meTR6A_lEuGhZHJFdzIkwMaTPY/edit#gid=1956191207

Minnesota Coming soon…

Mississippi https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FvceBx2hYknanHRve0Df0-igP9TMtxXlbozh8DGi4yw/edit#gid=0

Montana https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10maSLdOmC41jTGE6bPakl20xhrHtgzLqUJGFSoeFieE/edit#gid=394463307

Ohio Coming soon…

Utah https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kviGM6gxsV7-4sckWD4uVpUqfMLqmhBDXY9DK-t9svA/edit#gid=1413252173

The Teacher Leader Competencies


Take time for careful study of the

competencies. Find yourself in this

document and begin setting goals for where

you’d like to be!

Where can you find them?

http://bit.ly/TLICompetencies

Capstone Portfolio (October 2014 – August 2015)


What challenge are you already facing that you have been wanting to tackle in your school, district,

state, or your association (at any

level)?

Project Pathways: Association Leadership

Policy Leadership Instructional Leadership

Portfolio Sections:

Contextual information Challenge description

Plan and Implementation Effectiveness

Reflection and Next Steps

General TLI Tips and Strategies


Know now that a lot of information will be flowing. Prepare yourself. Read emails and participant guides very carefully. Try very hard to NEVER skim information. Take the time to read carefully and make notes about the content. Next semester, pay very close attention to time zones, as your learning strand cohort will consist of participants across the nation. Create a TLI calendar for yourself. Post dates for face-to-face meetings, pre-work, webinars and videoconferences (Zoom), post-work, and other TLI related work for your capstone. Your VCO will be surveying you soon to set all dates for the work this semester. Create a special TLI folder in your email. All TLI emails will have “TLI: subject” in the subject line. This will help you stay on track. Get to know leaders and members of your cohort. Find ways to connect to one another and build relationships. Your experience in TLI will be a great one, especially when you put in the time necessary to build these lasting connections.

Break Out Room: TEACHER LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE 14

Remind everyone to read the facilitation guide VERY carefully. And be SURE to read BEFORE your scheduled leader meeting. Reminder to last year’s leaders: Changes have been made to the curriculum. USE YEAR TWO MATERIALS. DO NOT USE MATERIALS FROM YEAR ONE. If you don’t have access to the Google Drive of materials, send [email protected] your Google account email so she can give you access. Schedule a leader meeting time to get your cohort ready for launch. Start on these items in Break Out Rooms tonight and finish at your scheduled meeting.

•  Set procedure for weekly emails to cohort (facilitator will administer) •  Set procedure for surveying cohort to set webinar/videoconference dates and

times (VCO will administer) •  Set procedure for attendance and participation for all pre-work, webinars, post-

work, and F2F meetings (Coaches will administer) •  Identify guests for webinars (Facilitator will administer, will need help from

coaches for first webinar)

Weekly memos to your cohort should include current work (pre-work or post-work), links to threads in your cohort lab (Collaboratory), dates/times/links to webinars or videoconferences.

More Leader Reminders: TEACHER LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE 15

A Blackboard practice room is available for all leaders. Use all semester as needed! Moderator Link: Join the Blackboard Collaborate session Guest Link: https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?sid=2009343&password=M.C3B968B48C6AEC261BE5A7D2827BC4

Don’t forget to record all sessions. When I create your sessions, I will provide a link for the recording. Fortunately, Blackboard automatically generates the recording with that link provided. Once VCOs have dates for each webinar and meeting, please post them here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BBSho88EcB90Evm2OD1ds1JayAizSagz3MbDFf6oU3s/edit#gid=0 I will generate your webinar and links to recordings on this Google Doc. So this is where you will need to check to give the correct link to your cohort. You can share both the link to the webinar and the recording link at the same time.


“When you go beyond what is expected, when you act on

your desire to develop and learn, you won't regret it.”

Marsha Ratzel, NBCT TLI Cohort Facilitator Five Tell-tale Signs You’re

Becoming a Teacher Leader Education Week


Q & A time