GCSDLeadership Academy Mission
The Greece Leadership Academy seeks to provide a robust leadership development program customized to meet the needs of the district. This rigorous, experiential school
leadership refinement program is designed to engage Greece leaders to be the change agents and transformative school
leaders who measurably impact student achievement.
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Supporting the CCSS Implementation
What are some of the Common Core instructional strategies we have modeled
this week?
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Purpose Day 5• To understand systems thinking and be
able to apply it as an approach to problem solving and analysis
• To understand the implications and impact of systems on the role of the leader
• To build the relationship between school community members
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Team Building:Sorting
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Sorting• What does this activity have to do with leadership?• How did you organize yourselves when reasons for sorting
were arbitrary? What were you looking for? Why did you pay attention to those particular organizing principles?
• How does sorting data relate to decision making?• Are you looking for data that affirm your beliefs and
values? Why do we tend to look for and sort what is alike?
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Systems ThinkingLeadership Academy
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Systems Thinking
Purpose
•To explore how a systems thinking approach can help school leaders analyze and think through a change event, specifically the changing role of Teacher Leaders in GSCD
•To understand the “iceberg” construct and be able to use it to identify leverage points within a system
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Systems Thinking: Iceberg
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Systems Thinking: Iceberg
Ladder of Inference/ Mental models
Senge, P., et al. (2000). Schools that learn: A fifth discipline field book for educators, parents, and everyone who cares about education. New York: Doubleday/Currency.
Observable “data” and experiences
Select “Data” from observations
Add Meanings (cultural and personal)
Make Assumptions based on the added meanings
Draw Conclusions
Adopt Beliefs about the world
Take Actions based on beliefs
The reflexive loop (Our beliefs affect what data we select next time)
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Teacher Leader Roles:
Administrative Perspective
Barb Deane-Williams Jason CooneyShaun NelmsDoug Pacelli
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Political MappingLeadership Academy
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Political MappingPurpose
To use a Political Mapping Tool to explore the Teacher Leader Position in your school
In order to
•Identify who will be affected by the work of the teacher leaders and consider strategies for moving forward
•Be able to apply a systems thinking approach to problem solving
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Political Mapping: Process
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1. Clearly state the change or initiative to be undertaken and place that statement in a circle.
2. Begin to identify, in satellite fashion, each of the people or groups (stakeholders) who are likely to have an interest in the change.
3. For each satellite created, determine if the potential impact of the person or group is High, Medium, or Low.
4. For all High and Medium impact satellites, create a new set of satellites, indicating the specific individual or groups with whom you need to communicate.
5. For each individual or group, create a strategy.
Political Mapping: Process
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• What kinds of strategies did you come up with for your school?
• How did what you heard from the superintendent, GTA, GASA, and deputy superintendent earlier today impact your thinking/strategizing?
Political Mapping: Debrief
Reflections & Recap Week 1
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Reflection and Looking Forward
• What do you want Teacher Leaders to understand about how your school will be moving forward related to,
• Strategic Plan• Instructional Practice• PLCs• Teacher Effectiveness• Mission and Vision
• What actions will you take? What supports will you need?
• How will the Teacher Leader figure into your plans?
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Reflection and Looking Forward: Debrief
• How do these plans connect to the strategic plan?
• What have you seen or heard ideas from your colleagues that resonates with you?
Overview:Week Two
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Making Connections
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Making ConnectionsWhat resonates with you?
•Use the agendas to select the session that had the most impact for you.
•Write it on a post-it note.
•Using the Strategic Map by your table, determine where the post-it fits and place it on the map.
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School Community:SIP Work
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Reflections - Day 5In school teams, map out the strategies that would be used to support your school mission/ vision as you work to make connections to the strategic plan.•Complete reflection on pre-work as a team (11x16)•Focus on strategies or activities to make explicit connections to the mission/ vision•Continue SIP Goal Setting template
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Select someone other than the
principal
Who should facilitate?
55 min. action plan templates
Leadership FolliesDay Five
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Purpose
• To highlight in a fun way what has been learned
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Silent reflection time• Solo Jot: Reflecting on the previous
discussions and the week’s activities, write yourself some notes about what stands out for you.
• This is SILENT time.
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In your school groups
• Share your stand outs.
• Everyone should contribute at least a couple.
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Prepare a Presentation• Your goal is to share your group’s learnings with the
rest of the participants. In a way that keeps our interest.
• Suggest you use some (three?) of the following components: music, physical movement, props, audience participation, sound effects, drama or role-playing, art/pictures.
• All group members must have a visible role.• 25 minutes to prepare. Between 2 and 4 minutes
max.
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