Change has changed.We are in a critical time of history. The age of farms and factories and even information worked for a while, but everything has changed. What worked yesterday does not necessarily work today. Organizations fail when they over-invest in “what is” at the expense of “what could be.” Executives often say, “This is how our industry work.” My stock reply: ‘Yeah, until it doesn’t.” Truth is, every organization is successful until it’s not. In a world of unprecedented change, there’s only one way to protect yourself from creative destruction—do the destructing yourself.1“Average is officially over because, you see, every employer today has in this hyper-connected world access to above-average computer software, robots, and not just cheap labor, but cheap genius, from so many different places. So Woody Allen's observation that 90 percent of life is showing up is, as they say, N/A, no longer applicable. If you just show up to your job and do average, whether you are a lawyer, an accountant, or a butcher, a baker, a candlestick maker, there is a machine, a software, a robot, or a foreign worker now that is so much more quickly, cheaply, and easily available to take you out. So you had better be a creative creator or a creative server.”1We have to say goodbye to the knowledge economy and say hello to the creative economy. A new breed of worker and leader are now required...people who are creative, good at connecting with others, and able to see solutions like no one else. Indispensable.2 We are at a “tipping” point in education. With competition from private schools, charters schools, home schools, and virtual schools; with education funding in a crisis of epic proportions; with new, yet inefficient, assessment systems; and with the shift toward globalization, it is time.As our ancestors proved in shifting from the agricultural system to the industrial system, we can do it, but we must be willing to adapt. That’s why we need to change the way we change.1 From What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation by Gary Hamel (Hardcover - Feb 1, 2012)2 From Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? by Seth Godin (Hardcover - Jan 26, 2010)
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“Project EIC”
Why do you do what you do? Why are you a board member?
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At the beginning of the school year, the Denton ISD Educational Improvement Committee set out to reinvent the EIC.
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At the beginning of the school year, the Denton ISD Educational Improvement Committee set out to reinvent the EIC.
The goal of the EIC…
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The goal of the EIC was the development of the District’s education goals. The District’s planning process to improve student performance includes the development of the District’s educational goals, the legal requirements for the District and campus improvement plans, all pertinent federal planning requirements, and administrative procedures. The Board shall approve the process under which the educational goals are developed and shall ensure that input is gathered from the District-level committee. BQ(LOCAL)
The EIC began by examining the Denton ISD Board Goals.
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The EIC began by examining the Denton ISD Board Goals.
Then, each campus rep examined their campus Wildly Important Goals (WIGs) and matched their campus WIGs to the Denton ISD Board Goals.
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Then, each campus rep examined their campus Wildly Important Goals (WIGs) and matched their campus WIGs to the Denton ISD Board Goals. Afterwards, the EIC reps identified trends, similar vocabulary, and common subject areas that were identified across the district. See http://www.dentonisd.org/51210829122928430/blank/browse.asp?A=383&BMDRN=2000&BCOB=0&C=111741.
4 areas “popped” out:
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4 areas “popped” out: vision, climate, teaching and learning, and parent and community involvement. However, there was 1 common thread: PLCs. See http://www.dentonisd.org/51210829122928430/blank/browse.asp?A=383&BMDRN=2000&BCOB=0&C=111742.
Going back to the DuFours’ work on PLCs in the book, Learning By Doing, the EIC looked back at the basics of a PLC…
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Going back to the DuFours’ work on PLCs in the book, Learning By Doing, the EIC looked back at the basics of a PLC…
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Mission asks the question, “Why?”
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Vision asks “What?”
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Values attempt to clarify collective commitments.
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Goals are what the organization hopes to achieve as a result of improvement initiatives.
Then, the EIC reexamined the Denton ISD Board Goals and found…
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Then, the EIC reexamined the Denton ISD Board Goals and found…
I read an excerpt from Igniting a Passion for Reading that my wife, Tenille (YES, I.AM.THE.CAPTAIN!), a 4th grade Language Arts teacher at Pecan Creek ES, shared with me…
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I read an excerpt from Igniting a Passion for Reading that my wife, Tenille (YES, I am the Captain!), a 4th grade Language Arts teacher at Pecan Creek ES, shared with me…
From the book…
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“I will never, ever, forget the difficulty I had in one of my schools at the annual faculty meeting, during which the principal always announced to the teaching staff the goals that had been set for us by the board of education for the upcoming year. Good friends would harness me to my chair and duct-tape my mouth shut at this yearly meeting for fear I would start a revolution and get myself and multiple other people fired for insubordination. I’m sorry, but is this not the most ridiculous thing you have ever heard? How motivated are you to reach goals someone else is setting for you—and especially an entity you do not even believe should exist? (But that’s for the book I’m still threatening to write.) I never cared two hoots about their goals. I might have, if I’d been a part of the process of crafting them, but I wasn’t. Apparently, my input regarding the goals that my daily work would either achieve or fail to achieve for our district was not viewed as a significant factor in their plan for goal creation. Is it any wonder that so many of our schools are in such a mess? One of my best friends and colleagues would regularly repeat this sentence in our weekly team meeting: “The system is flawed.” I believe she may have made a seriously important discovery. I believe that goal setting can be tremendously motivating—when the people setting the goals are the same people who will be working to make them successful. We can use goal setting to build rapport with kids that will energize and excite them—creating a kind of “catch the wave” mentality. I have found that goal setting works if we set goals for ourselves right along with our students, if we keep the goals visible and refer to them often, and if we show the kids we really do care about how they’re progressing by talking with them about their goals one-on-one.” From Igniting a Passion for Reading: Successful Strategies for Building Lifetime Readers by Steven L. Layne (Paperback - Nov 28, 2009)
What matters to you? As in…what’s really important to you?
I began to think of my a school teacher’s perspective of goal setting, of a recent Facebook Fan Page I built for my professional organization, of our students, of the future, and of…YOU.
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I began to think of my a school teacher’s perspective of goal setting, of a recent Facebook Fan Page I built for my professional organization, of our students, of the future, and of…YOU.