California Coordinated School Health Leadership Institute

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California Coordinated School Health Leadership
Institute

• People Skills,
• Relationships and Leadership
• Lola Hiroko Irvin

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People Skills, Relationships and Leadership

• School Health Council
• School Health Team
• School Health Coordinator

• Leadership
• Relationships
• People Skills

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Resources

• The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook Strategies and
  Tools for Building Learning Organizations. Peter
  M. Senge, et al., 1994.
• Step By Step To Health Promoting Schools A
  Guide to Implementing Coordinated School Health
  Programs in Local Schools and Districts. Joyce
  V. Fetro, 1998.
• Good to Great. Jim Collins, 2001.

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Leadership

• What does it look like?
• What does it feel like?
• What words would you use to describe it?

• Vision
• What do you want to create of your world?

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Leadership

• What does it look like?
• What does it feel like?
• What words would you use to describe it?

• Vision
• What does the team want to create of the world?

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Leadership

• What does it look like?
• What does it feel like?
• What words would you use to describe it?

• Vision
• What does the council want to create of the
  world?

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Creative Tension

• School Health Improvement Plan
• Priorities
• Goals and objectives
• Action items

• Vision

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Partnerships - Relationships

• Who do you need
• Who is missing

• Vision
• School Health Improvement Plan

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Partnerships - Relationships

• Who do you need
• Who is missing

• Understanding your potential partner
• Permeable and seasonal partnerships
• What will be their roles

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Partnerships - Relationships

• Mission
• What is their organizational mission
• Do you have intersecting missions

• Understanding your potential partner
• Permeable and seasonal partnerships
• What will be their roles

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Partnerships - Relationships

• Objectives
• What are their objectives
• Do you have common objectives, does coordinating
  school health reach their objectives

• Understanding your potential partner
• Permeable and seasonal partnerships
• What will be their roles

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Partnerships - Relationships

• Strengths
• What do they do best
• How can working together make them better
• What resources do they have

• Understanding your potential partner
• Permeable and seasonal partnerships
• What will be their roles

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Partnerships - Relationships

• Needs
• Recognition
• Private vs. public
• For profit vs. non-profit
• How can their needs be met in a partnership

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Partnerships - Relationships

• Celebrate and recognize
• partnerships
• Earned or paid media
• Logos and branding
• Publish work

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Partnerships - Relationships

• Use symbolism to recognize
• partnerships
• Frame publications
• Recognize leadership in joint events
• Commemorate relationship
• Nominate and recognize with organizational awards

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People Skills

• Using mental models
• for
• Reflection - slow down our thinking process
• Inquiry openly sharing views and developing
  knowledge about each other

• Now that you have
• them around the
• table . . .

The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook, Peter Senge
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Balancing Reflection and InquiryThe Left Hand
Column

• Left Hand
• What Im thinking and feeling
• What do I want

• Right Hand
• What is being said
• What is the data

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Balancing Reflection and InquiryThe Left Hand
Column

• Also use in the
• moment to create
• self-awareness to
• create transparency
• for yourself and your
• group

• Left Hand
• What Im thinking and feeling
• What do I want

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Balancing Reflection and InquiryThe Left Hand
Column

• Also use in the
• moment to inquire
• into others
• thinking and
• make their
• thinking visible

• Right Hand
• What is being said
• What is the data

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Balancing Reflection and InquiryThe Left Hand
Column

• Right Hand
• What is being said
• What is the data

• Use chart paper
• or board to write
• out what people
• are saying

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Balancing Reflection and InquiryThe Left Hand
Column

• Right Hand
• What is being said
• What is the data

• Document notes
• or minutes of
• meeting and
• distribute

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Ladder of Inference

• More aware of your thinking and reasoning
• Making your thinking and reasoning visible to
  others
• Inquiring into other peoples thinking and
  reasoning

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Ladder of Inference

• What is the observable data
• Does everyone agree on what the data is
• Can you run me through your reasoning
• How did we get from the data to assumptions

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People Skills, Relationships and Leadership

• Leadership
• Relationships
• People Skills
• School Health Council
• School Health Team
• School Health Coordinator

• Vision
• Building Partnerships
• Inquiry and Reflection
• Left Hand Column
• Ladder of Inference
• Testing Assumptions

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Aloha and Mahalo

• Questions?