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Creating A High Performance Learning Culture

• Kathy ONeill
• Director, Leadership Initiative
• www.sreb.org
• kathy.oneill_at_sreb.org

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What Do You Expect?
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Joel Barker
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Study of School Leadership

• Commissioned a literature review Leading School
  Improvement What Research Says
• Interviewed exemplary school leaders
• Convened
• Leaders of exemplary programs
• A national leadership planning council
• A panel of exemplary school leaders
• State leadership academy leaders
• A college and university panel
• Wrote Preparing a New Breed of School Principal
  Its Time For Action

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(What The Research Shows)www.sreb.org
Leading School Improvement

• Provides a shared vision
• Uses data to monitor and accelerate improvement
• Raises the bar-higher achievement for all
  students
• Provides personalization and builds linkages with
  parents and community
• Increases student engagement and motivation and
• Provides focused and sustained professional
  development.

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How Does Success Happen?
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Critical Success Factors

• Owning the Vision
• High Expectations for All
• A Shared Vision Purpose
• Strategic/Systems Thinking

• Using Data to Drive Change
• Data to Determine Needs
• Data to Monitor and Improve

• Organizing to Improve Student Learning
• Knowledge of and Focus on Teaching and Learning
• Increased Learning Time
• Providing and Participating in Focused, Sustained
  Professional
• Development
• Building and Leading Teams
• Using Technology for Learning
• Communicating With All Communities

• Maximizing Leadership Effectiveness
• Personal Values ( Integrity,
• Courage,Conviction)
• Understanding Self and Others
• Leading Problem Solving
• Modeling/Encouraging Creativity
• Communicating Effectively

Demonstrating a Passion For Student Learning
Building a Personalized Learning Environment
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Leadership Teams
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Keys To Success
Creativity
Teamwork
Problem-solving
Success!
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Remember The Titans
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In a High Performance Culture Leadership Teams
Deal With Second Order ChangeA first order
change is one that is consistent with existing
values and practices and offers obvious benefits
to everyone involved. More difficult-to-produce
second order changes call on all to break with
their traditions.
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In a High Performance Culture...
leadership teams are organized to work together
to accomplish a set of objectives that cannot be
achieved effectively by individuals.
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In a High Performance Culture, Leadership Teams .
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• Have an awareness of unity on the part of
  all its members.
• Contribute and learn from and
• work with others.
• Ability to act together toward
• a common goal.

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A High Performance Culture Has . . .

• High Expectations for All
• A Shared Focus and Purpose
• Strategic/Systems Thinking

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Indiana Jones
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A High Performance Culture . . .

• Raises the bar to increase academic rigor,
  eliminates low level tracking and offers
  challenging academic and technical content to all.

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A High Performance Culture Studies What Is
Taught And How It Is Taught
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Failing Grade
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In A High Performance Culture Students Are
Engaged And Motivated

• Different instructional strategies
• Innovative use of time
• Smaller learning communities

• Tutors
• Curriculum models
• Authentic instruction with application to real
  world

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A High Performance Culture Uses Data To Impact
Student Achievement By...

• Collecting formal and informal data to determine
  needs and as the foundation for decision-making
• Disaggregating data to monitor and improve
• Using data to change attitudes teachers,
  students, parents

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In A High Performance Culture There Is A Sense
Of Urgency And A Focus On Student Achievement
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Miss Toliver
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A High Performance Culture Focuses Sustains
Staff Development That LeadsTo Student Success

• Study groups
• Problem-solving sessions
• Regular teacher meetings to discuss student needs

• Team conference attendance
• Teachers as leaders and mentors
• Master teachers as trainers

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A High Performance Culture Focuses Sustains
Staff Development That LeadsTo Student Success
Input
vs.
Outputs
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A High Performance Culture Demonstrates A
Passion For Student Learning!
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The Miracle of Student Achievement
Made Possible By A High Performance
Learning Culture -- A Sexy Thing!
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Creating A High Performance Learning Culture

• Kathy ONeill
• Director, Leadership Initiative
• www.sreb.org
• kathy.oneill_at_sreb.org