Leadership Matters District 6 Administrative Academy December 14, 2005

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Leadership MattersDistrict 6 Administrative
AcademyDecember 14, 2005

• From ASCD, Schools Moving Up, Summer 2005

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PERB Findings

• 4 styles of leadership
• Powerless leader
• Absent leader
• Controlling leader
• Balanced leader
• Our objective is to practice balanced leadership
  throughout Local District 6.

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Schools Moving Up

• How do we use effective leadership and focused
  professional development to move our schools up?

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18 Schools Studied by WestEd

• Schools served high numbers of at-risk students
• All had dramatic gains in test scores or raised
  scores and consistently kept them high
• No group of students fell behind academically

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Common Features (The what)

• High Expectations Beyond Pobrecito
• Making Data Part of the Culture
• A Focused Plan
• Interactive Principal Leadership
• Professional Development Redefined
• Standards-Based Curriculum and Instruction

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District 6 Focus (The what)

• Balanced Leadership
• Quality professional development that focuses on
  classroom practice and linked to adopted
  curriculum and programs
• Developing grade level and content learning
  communities
• Using data to inform practice and creating
  urgency for improvement
• Internal accountability for implementation

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Leadership Goals for Principals and Assistant
Principals (How?)

• Model instructional leadership including ability
  to articulate and reinforce the vision and goals
  of core instructional programs
• Hold ourselves out as learners
• Focus on teaching practices
• Accept the the challenges inherent in the
  leadership role by working collaboratively to
  solve problems

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Table Talk

• Select the one feature from Schools Moving Up,
  that you are successfully implementing at your
  school site.
• Share that successful feature at your table and
  explain why you feel that it is successful.

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School Team Reflection

• Review the 6 features of Schools Moving Up.
• With your team, identify one feature that you
  will begin to implement in January.
• Write 3 steps to begin the implementation.
• What support do you need from LD 6?