Distributed Leadership

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Distributed LeadershipA Tool For the School
Improvement Journey

• Presented by
• Denise Hicks Barnes, Assistant Principal
• Louis L. Redding Middle School
• Sherry Gross, Principal Lindsay Baker, Teacher
  Leader
• Glasgow High School
• Amy Levitz, Principal Tracy Soisson, Teacher
  Leader
• Gauger-Cobbs Middle School

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Overview

• Opening Activities
• Common Attributes
• The Perfect School
• Definition of Distributed Leadership
• Common Themes
• Lessons Learned
• Individual Reflection
• What Are Our Common Attributes?
• Final Thoughts

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Common Attributes

• Although we are all differentwe have many things
  in common
• Activity

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In a Perfect World

• What does your dream house look like?

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In a Perfect World.

• What does your DREAM SCHOOL look like?
• Take a few minutes to discuss what your DREAM
  SCHOOL would look like in 5 years.

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Distributed Leadership

• What does DISTRIBUTED LEADERSHIP mean to you?

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Distributed Leadership Is

• Distributed leadership centers around a different
  model within the school where the distinctions
  between followers and leaders tends to blur
  (Gronn, 2000)
• It incorporates the activities and efforts of
  multiple groups in a school who work at guiding
  staff in the instructional change process
  (Spillane, 2001)

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Distributed Leadership is Not

• It is not one more committee on which people
  serve
• It is not one person single handedly reforming a
  school
• It is not a top-down leadership model
• It is not possible without building leadership
  capacity among your faculty

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Common ThemesGoals

• Building Leadership Capacity
• Improving Student Achievement
• Enhancing Climate and Culture of the School
• Increasing Family and Community Engagement

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Common ThemesAccomplishments

• Louis L. Redding Middle School
• This year we had common planning for grade levels
• Curricular meetings monthly that were about Best
  Instructional Practices Social Studies for
  example
• Common Grade Level Assessments (Math)
• Using an Enhancing Education Through Technology
  (E2T2) to develop Understanding by Design units
  of study
• Communication with parents through mailings
• Team Leader meetings were proactive and problem
  solving in nature
• Started our vision for the perfect school

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Common ThemesAccomplishments

• Glasgow High School
• PLCs
• Time built in to master schedule for regular,
  frequent meetings
• Approximately 30 groups of 4-6 professionals
  linked by subject area or responsibilities
• Increased Teacher Leadership
• in areas of PEP and MAP
• PD delivered via PLCs
• Individualized PD for faculty
• Faculty meetings focused more on instruction and
  less on administrivia

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CommonThemesAccomplishments

• Gauger-Cobbs Middle School
• Increase in DSTP data
• MAP Growth
• Collaborative Teaching
• Time for Collaboration
• PBS Planning Team
• Action Teams
• Teachers are committed to improving student
  achievement
• Teachers facilitating professional development
• Roll Through Professional Development

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Common ThemesBarriers

• Achievement Gaps
• Discipline Disparities
• Time
• Staff Transition (turnover in administration and
  teachers)
• Low Parental Involvement
• Resistance to Change

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Common ThemesNext Steps

• Louis L. Redding Middle School
• Vision
• Time
• Collaboration
• Meeting Norms
• Parent Involvement

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Common ThemesNext Steps

• Glasgow High School
• Individualized PD continued
• Sophisticated PLC projects to impact greater
  number of faculty/students
• Improved public relations/parent involvement

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Common ThemesNext Steps

• Gauger-Cobbs Middle School
• Collaboration
• Norms
• Goal Setting
• Using Data
• Logs
• Common Assessments
• Peer Visits
• Video Tape as a Tool
• Targeted Interventions
• PBS

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Professional Development
This year Future Outside Opportunities
Gauger-Cobbs Teaching in the Block Curriculum Collaboration PBS Collaboration Professional Development School Visits
Glasgow Curriculum Block Scheduling Individualized PD MAP Collaboration Individualized PD Professional Development School Visits
Louis L. Redding DPAS II Data Day Visioning Curriculum Days Instructional Meetings Meeting Norms Vision Professional Development School Visits
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Lessons Learned

• All teachers are leaders, and this leadership
  promotes a feeling of professional satisfaction.
• Opportunities for Authentic Leadership
• Celebrate Leadership
• People support what they help create (No Name)

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Individual Reflection

• How is distributed leadership exemplified in your
  school or organization?
• Identify examples that currently exist.

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Individual Reflection

• What are the common attributes that exist among
  the three schools?
• Of these common attributeswhat can we make
  common to our school or organization?

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Final Thoughts.

• Distributed Leadership may already exist in
  various forms within your school
• Although we may all look very different, we all
  have common attributes
• most notablyour desire to positively impact
  student achievement!!!!