Southern Oregon Educational Service District Supporting School Leadership

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Southern Oregon Educational Service
DistrictSupporting School Leadership

• Oregon Leadership Network
• April 9, 2008
• Kathy McCollum
• Barry Vitcov

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Supporting School Leadership

• What must we do to sustain a school
• leaders professional learning community?

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Supporting School Leadership

• Purpose
• The SOESD will support the continued
  development of school leaders with an
  integrated system of professional development
  that includes a series of seminars, leadership
  coaching, and a professional learning community
  for coaches.

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Supporting School Leadership

• What do school leaders need to learn?

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Supporting School Leadership

• Yeah for learning?

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Supporting School Leadership

• research indicates that school leadership has a
  substantial effect on student achievement and
  provides guidance for experienced and aspiring
  administrators alike.
• - Marzano, Waters, McNulty
• School Leadership that Works

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Supporting School Leadership

• ? Leadership Institute
• ? Coaching/Mentoring
• ? Supporting Coaches/Mentors

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Supporting School Leadership

• A Word from Binky

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Supporting School Leaders

• External Supports
• ? Coach
• ? Leadership Institute (PLC)
• ? Graduate Programs
• ? Family Friends
• Internal Supports
• ? Mentor
• ? Supervisor
• ? Colleagues
• ? Site Resources

Shaky Ground
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Supporting School Leadership

• Anything missing?
• Pushback?

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Supporting School Leadership

• Leadership Institute
• Ten half-day sessions that focus on the skills
  and processes necessary for successful school
  leadership particularly the nuts and bolts
  faced by new and veteran school leaders.

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Supporting School Leadership

• Leadership Institute Modules
• 1. Culture and Climate
• 2. Time Management Delegation
• 3. Meeting Facilitation
• 4. Decision Making
• 5. Supervision Formative Assessment

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Supporting School Leadership

• Leadership Institute Modules
• 6. Evaluation Summative Assessment
• 7. Using Data
• 8. Professional Learning Communities
• 9. Recruitment, Staffing, Working with
  New Teachers
• 10. Vision Leadership Style

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Supporting School Leadership

• CLASS
• Coaching Leaders to Attain School Success
• New Teacher Center at
• University of California Santa Cruz
• Leadership Division

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Supporting School Leadership

• Blended Coaching

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Supporting School Leadership

• CLASS
• ? Three-day training
• ? Blended Coaching Strategies
• ? Range of Tools Resources
• ? Supported by a Learning Community

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Supporting School Leadership

• CLASS Training Components Include
• ? Needs of beginning principals
• ? Effective standards-based leadership
• ? Entering the coaching relationship
• ? Facilitative, instructional, collaborative,
  consultative, transformational coaching

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Supporting School Leadership

• CLASS Training Components Include
• ? Effective listening questioning
• ? Effective feedback
• ? Emotional intelligence
• ? Cultural proficiency

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Supporting School Leadership

• CLASS Training Components Include
• ? Individual Organizational Mood
• ? Dispositions
• ? Self-awareness bias
• ? Analyzing systems

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Supporting School Leadership

• CLASS Network of School Leadership Coaches
• An ongoing professional learning community
  focused on the continuous development of coaching
  knowledge and skills.

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Supporting School Leadership

• CLASS Network strategies activities include
• ? Conducting self-assessments and creating
  action plans
• ? Case studies
• ? Coaching practice with guided feedback
• ? Coaching in varied contexts, including
  low- performing schools

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Supporting School Leadership

• Table Talk
• Determine what questions you have developed
  during the course of this presentation in
  response to What must be done to sustain a
  school leaders professional learning community?

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Supporting School Leadership

• For more information, contact
• Kathy McCollum
• Director, School Improvement
• Southern Oregon Educational Service District
• [phone]
• kathy_mccollum_at_soesd.k12.or.us
• Barry Vitcov
• Educational Consultant
• Certified CLASS Coach
• [phone]
• Barry.Vitcov_at_gmail.com