Leadership IdeasLeadership Ideas

A Teacher Education Project Based A Teacher Education Project Based on State Standardson State Standards

With Ashland UniversityWith Ashland University

Leadership IdeasLeadership Ideas

A company providing custom-built leadership A company providing custom-built leadership models designed to meet models designed to meet The Needs of the The Needs of the HeartHeart, provide , provide Appropriate ConditionsAppropriate Conditions, and , and achieve achieve Successful Outcomes Successful Outcomes throughthrough::Leadership and Organizational ConsultingLeadership and Organizational Consulting

Motivational PresentationsMotivational PresentationsStaff TrainingStaff Training

A Teacher Education Curriculum Based on A Teacher Education Curriculum Based on State StandardsState Standards

A Collaboration with Ashland A Collaboration with Ashland UniversityUniversity

The goal is to help young The goal is to help young teachers apply a teachers apply a “backward design “backward design process” to planning process” to planning their lessons, allowing their lessons, allowing them to unpack state them to unpack state standards and provide standards and provide their students the their students the opportunity to learn what opportunity to learn what is essential. (McTighe is essential. (McTighe and Wiggins, Marzano)and Wiggins, Marzano)

PurposePurpose StatementStatement

To introduce and provide teachers with a new To introduce and provide teachers with a new curriculum in collaboration with Ashland curriculum in collaboration with Ashland University. The core curriculum will include University. The core curriculum will include courses that focus on course content, teacher-courses that focus on course content, teacher-student relationships, student motivation, student relationships, student motivation, teacher morale, and lesson design based on teacher morale, and lesson design based on state standards.state standards.

Classrooms Today?Classrooms Today?

Leading in a Culture of Change- Michael FullanLeading in a Culture of Change- Michael Fullan

Change is a double-edged sword. Its relentless pace Change is a double-edged sword. Its relentless pace these days runs us off our feet. Yet when things are these days runs us off our feet. Yet when things are unsettled, we can find new ways to move ahead and unsettled, we can find new ways to move ahead and to create breakthroughs not possible in stagnant to create breakthroughs not possible in stagnant societies. If you ask people to brainstorm words to societies. If you ask people to brainstorm words to describe change, they come up with a mixture of describe change, they come up with a mixture of negative and positive terms. On the one side, fear, negative and positive terms. On the one side, fear, anxiety, loss, danger, panic; on the other, anxiety, loss, danger, panic; on the other, exhilaration, risk-taking, excitement, improvements, exhilaration, risk-taking, excitement, improvements, energizing. For better or for worse, change arouses energizing. For better or for worse, change arouses emotions, and when emotions intensify, emotions, and when emotions intensify, leadership is leadership is key.key.

Meeting the needs of the heart…Meeting the needs of the heart…

As one high school student, Reginald, said to me As one high school student, Reginald, said to me recently: “I’d rather be defiant and stupid in recently: “I’d rather be defiant and stupid in school than let the teacher call me a failure. school than let the teacher call me a failure. My friends know I’m not dumb, and we laugh My friends know I’m not dumb, and we laugh at the teacher together.”at the teacher together.”

““Stupidity and Tears,” Herbert Kohl 2003Stupidity and Tears,” Herbert Kohl 2003

The Bargain Students make with TeachersThe Bargain Students make with Teachers

If you will…If you will… Than we will…Than we will…

Show you care about the Believe the Show you care about the Believe the materialmaterial material can be important for us material can be important for us

Model how to act when Learn how to takeModel how to act when Learn how to takeyou or we make mistakes intellectual risksyou or we make mistakes intellectual risks

Keep private anything Trust you with Keep private anything Trust you with Personal information thatPersonal information that

could help you better teach uscould help you better teach us ““Fires in the Bathroom,” Kathleen CushmanFires in the Bathroom,” Kathleen Cushman

Schools must…Schools must…

Culture-Relationships

Conditionsof learning &

teaching forstudents &

adults

Competencies of Adults-/Content

Improvement

Tony Wagner, Harvard UniversityLeadership Ideas

Meet the Needs of the Heart

Provide Appropriate Conditions

Achieve Successful Outcomes

How can we produce more “leaders of leaders?”How can we produce more “leaders of leaders?”

Universities do a great job teaching pre-service Universities do a great job teaching pre-service teaching instructional strategies. Today’s teaching instructional strategies. Today’s young teachers enter the classroom better young teachers enter the classroom better prepared with instructional strategies then prepared with instructional strategies then ever before. What young teachers need most ever before. What young teachers need most is to learn how to design lessons based on is to learn how to design lessons based on concepts drawn from state standards.concepts drawn from state standards.

Leadership for Incremental Change

• Emphasize relationships.• Establish strong lines of communication.• Be an advocate for the school.• Provide resources.• Maintain visibility.• Protect teachers from distractions.• Create culture of collaboration.• Look for and celebrate successes.

Leadership for Second Order Change

• Shake up the status quo.• Hold everyone’s feet to the fire.• Propose new ideas.• Operate from strong beliefs.• Tolerate ambiguity and dissent.• Talk research and theory.• Create explicit goals for change.• Define success in terms of goals.

Lesson and Curriculum DesignLesson and Curriculum Design

Ohio state standards have over 90 thousand Ohio state standards have over 90 thousand words of discrete bench marks that often lead words of discrete bench marks that often lead teachers to the notion that they are in a time teachers to the notion that they are in a time crunch to cover material. “Coverage” leads crunch to cover material. “Coverage” leads to lots of classroom activities and discrete to lots of classroom activities and discrete lessons but little understanding. We need to lessons but little understanding. We need to teach teachers a curriculum design process teach teachers a curriculum design process that focuses on what is essential and builds that focuses on what is essential and builds conceptual understanding.conceptual understanding.

ContentContent

Content is the key to curiosity in the classroom Content is the key to curiosity in the classroom and the textbook approach to learning is not and the textbook approach to learning is not only expensive; it is uninteresting to students, only expensive; it is uninteresting to students, boring and often not accurate. Creating boring and often not accurate. Creating essential questions increases the likely hood essential questions increases the likely hood students will remember content.students will remember content.

Teacher-Student RelationshipsTeacher-Student Relationships

Teacher-student relationships are often mired by Teacher-student relationships are often mired by bureaucratic roles that lead to a lack of bureaucratic roles that lead to a lack of empathy and sensitivity to student needs. empathy and sensitivity to student needs.

Teacher MoraleTeacher Morale

Teacher morale in many schools is low. They are Teacher morale in many schools is low. They are being asked to do things they know are not being asked to do things they know are not sound educational practices, teach to tests, sound educational practices, teach to tests, and cover knowledge in lock-step, thoughtless and cover knowledge in lock-step, thoughtless ways. ways.

Meeting the Needs…Meeting the Needs…

The needs of the heart, both for adults and kids, must be The needs of the heart, both for adults and kids, must be fostered, respected and explored. Emotionally fostered, respected and explored. Emotionally intelligent schools are successful schools. Much of intelligent schools are successful schools. Much of what we do in schools is based on what teachers what we do in schools is based on what teachers think is important for future development. Seldom do think is important for future development. Seldom do students see the need to learn for today and students see the need to learn for today and immediately see a present use for what has happened immediately see a present use for what has happened in the classroom. Teachers ought to ask this in the classroom. Teachers ought to ask this important question: important question: What do I want students to What do I want students to remember about my class five years from now? remember about my class five years from now?

Ideas for Implementation…Ideas for Implementation…Population…Population…Undergrad StudentsUndergrad StudentsGraduate StudentsGraduate StudentsYoung TeachersYoung TeachersVeteran TeachersVeteran TeachersAdministratorsAdministrators

Possible Format…Possible Format…Elective CourseworkElective CourseworkRequired CourseworkRequired CourseworkWorkshop Workshop Continuing Education SeminarsContinuing Education SeminarsAdministrative SupplementAdministrative SupplementLeadership CourseworkLeadership CourseworkLPDC RequirementsLPDC Requirements

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