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Building Leadership Capacity through Professional

Certification NWESD 189

August 2012

Association of Washington School Principals

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AWSP’s Role in Principal Professional

Certification1. Assist in development & implementation

of job embedded certification process

2. Support members by offering professional development aligned with certification standards

3. Gather feedback from members/candidates for continuous program improvement

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AWSP’s Role Today To share our experiences with the POLE

360

• What is the POLE 360?

• Why participate?

• What do I need to do?

• What results will I receive?

• How do I maximize results?

• Who else will see the results?

• What difference will it make?

POLE 360™A multi-source feedback

survey for leaders

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C E N TE R F OR E D UC ATI ON A L EF F E CT I V E N E S S , I N C .

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POLE 360 Perceptual Survey

• Format used in Business & Industry for

years

• Formative, not evaluative feedback

• Provides personal and confidential

feedback

• Web based, only taking 15-20 minutes

• 46 Likert bubble-in questions

• The POLE 360 is LEADER-centric

• Directly aligned to ISLLC Standards

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Sample Pole 360 Questions

Provides perceptions of your leadership behaviors from:

Leader(You)

Supervisor(1)

Peers

(3-6)

Staff(12+)

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Why am I doing the POLE 360?

Regular feedback informs and positions you in a proactive stance!

Assists in goal setting for your individual and school professional growth planning

Required for attainment of professional level certification

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What do you need to do before you begin?

• Follow program director’s directions explicitly!• Develop invitation & directions to respondents• Make list of respondents, email addresses & role

• How many respondents do I select?• Who do I select?• What do I tell my staff?

- Why I’m doing this?

- My respondent selection process

• Respondent selection is Critical

What happens & when?• Complete respondent selection by _______

• You receive email requesting respondent names & email addresses from CEE

• You notify respondents about this process• You & respondents receive email invitation

– Directions include Website logon, client & subscription codes, etc.

– SPAM filter issues• You & respondents have ___ wks to submit • Reminders sent if needed• Program director/you receive results

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How to Maximize your POLE 360 Results Report?

• Take time to reflect on the data

How to Maximize your POLE 360 Results Report?

• Take time to reflect on the data

• Remember it is only one piece of data

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How to Maximize your POLE 360 Results Report?

• Take time to reflect on the data• Remember it is only one piece of data• Proactively use results in your

professional certification plan - Identify growth targets - Set goals - Find resources and support - Get to the “So that . . .”

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Results Report and Your Emotional “Check”

This is confidential, formative data for you.Be open for self-reflection with the data. Identify what emotional response(s) are

being felt and which need to be addressed.Prepare to use data to start conversations

with:– Yourself– Your program director– Respondents, including supervisor– Critical friends

Avoid the desire to know, “who said that?”

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Vision & Goals

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Barriers to achieving the vision are identified,clarified and addressed

The improvement plan clearly defines goals andstrategies

Professional development has a focus consistentwith stated vision and goals

Consistently inspires and supports innovation

Progress toward mission is effectivelycommunicated to stakeholders

Develops the vision with and among allstakeholders

Appropriate data are used in the development ofmission, vision and goals

The improvement plan is regularly monitored andrevised

Almost Always Often True Sometimes True

Seldom True Almost Never True Missing

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ISLLC Standard #1 Vision and Goals

Absolute Value (Total of All)

• All respondent perceptions are on the chart with the different categories of respondents in different colors.

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ISLLC Standard #1 Vision and Goals

Leadership in Vision & Goals

0.0 0.5 1.0 1.5 2.0 2.5 3.0 3.5 4.0 4.5 5.0

Barriers to achieving the vision are identified,clarified and addressed

The improvement plan clearly defines goals andstrategies

Professional development has a focus consistentwith stated vision and goals

Consistently inspires and supports innovation

Progress toward mission is effectivelycommunicated to stakeholders

Develops the vision with and among allstakeholders

Appropriate data are used in the development ofmission, vision and goals

The improvement plan is regularly monitored andrevised

Peers Staff

Supervisor Leader

Almost Seldom Sometimes Often Almost Never True Alw ays True

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Comparison between respondent groups

Perception of Self VS. Others’ Perception

Leadership in Vision & Goals

-4.0 -3.0 -2.0 -1.0 0.0 1.0 2.0 3.0 4.0

Barriers to achieving the vision are identified,clarified and addressed

The improvement plan clearly defines goals andstrategies

Professional development has a focusconsistent with stated vision and goals

Consistently inspires and supports innovation

Progress toward mission is effectivelycommunicated to stakeholders

Develops the vision with and among allstakeholders

Appropriate data are used in the development ofmission, vision and goals

The improvement plan is regularly monitoredand revised

Supervisor Staff Peers

Leader Overrates Self Leader Underrates Self

The Leader's perspective compared to:

Perception ofSelf set to “0”

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Gap Analysis

What Difference Will It Make?

It’s up to you!18

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Questions?•For me?•For program director?•Additional information you need?

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Did We Answer These Questions?

• What is the POLE 360? • Why participate?• What do I need to do?• What results will I receive?• How do I maximize results?• Who else will see the results?• What difference will it make?

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AWSP Contacts

• Don Rash – don@awsp.org (P) 800.562.6100 (C) 360.951.9551

• Web site: www.awsp.org