Secondary Principals Statewide

Mentoring MeetingThursday, January 29, 2015

Outcomes: Grow your professional network;

Collaborate to help each other address individual leadership challenges;

Identify critical conditions for implementation of successful teacher leadership;

Analyze challenging legal issues;

Explore time management strategies to support a better leadership-life fit; and

Discuss how to provide effective feedback.

Links Resources:

http://www.sai-iowa.org/jan-secondary-statewide-meeting.cfm

Evaluation:

http://bit.ly/SecJan2015

Mentoring Matters:http://www.sai-iowa.org/2014-15-resources.cfm

Learning Community: Leadership Dilemma

Consultancy

Protocol Leader who has traveled the farthest will be

the first presenter

Timekeeper/facilitator will be the person to the left of the presenter

Presenter shares an overview of the dilemma and poses his/her focus question.

3 MINUTES

Protocol Consultancy Group asks clarifying questions –

those with brief, factual answers.

Consultancy Group asks probing questions: Worded to help presenter clarify and expand

his/her thinking about the dilemma presented to the group.

Help presenter analyze the dilemma.

3 MINUTES

Protocol Consultancy Group talks with each other about the

dilemma presented while the presenter listens and takes notes: What did we hear?

What didn’t we hear that might be relevant?

What assumptions seem to be operating?

What questions does the dilemma raise for us?

What do we think about the dilemma?

What might we do or try if faced with a similar dilemma? What have we done in similar situations?

5 MINUTES

Protocol Presenter reflects on what he/she heard and on

what he/she is now thinking, sharing with the group anything that particularly resonated during the consultancy.

5 MINUTES

Rotate to second presenter.

Creating Conditions for Effective Teacher Leadership

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don’t interfere.

~Ronald Reagan

Tackling Traditions and Norms

• Egalitarianism

• Seniority

• Autonomy

Preparing for Change How will teacher leaders contribute to the school’s

vision for school improvement?

How will teacher leaders “drum up” business?

What will you delegate and what will you share?

What do your teacher leaders know about adult learners?

How has your schedule been adjusted to support teacher leaders in working with staff both one-on-one and in groups? To support teacher leaders in collaborating with each other? To support teacher leaders in professional learning? To support teacher leaders in meeting with the principal?

Magnet Summary Identify key word/s (magnet word) from your article

and jot in center of note card.

Locate details ‘attracted’ to the magnet word and write in corner of note card. Include page # where possible.

Shared Leadership

developmental, 1

Delegate

perfectionistic, 4

credibility, 4gradual release, 3

In Search of Evidence…

Read designated article:

1. Creating a Culture of Teacher Leadership (yellow)

2. Making the Leap to Shared Leadership (green)

3. Critical Conditions: What Teacher Leaders Need to Be Effective in School (blue)

Complete a Magnet Summary for each of the key ideas in your article.

Team Talk Connect with those who have read your same

article.

Share your Magnet Summaries.

Determine which magnet words and associated details you will share back with your table groups and record on the Summaries Table.

Return to home base group and share summaries.

Next Steps Complete the “Dare to Delegate Checklist”

(pink)

Teachers21.org

Legal Lens on LeadingMatt Carver, SAI

Leadership-life Fit: Managing Your Time for a Better Fit

D.T. Magee, BoEE

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ORGANIZATION FOR ADMINISTRATORSLeadership-life Fit:

Managing Your Time for a Better Fit

D.T. MageeExecutive Director

Iowa Board of Educational Examiners@MageeDT @IowaBoEE

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Jim Collins – Good to Great

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Protect Your Time• Eliminate piles (your brain focuses on them)• Hold meetings outside your office• Hold standing meetings• Have a format for meetings• Write everything down (more on this later)• Know when you are most cognitively productive and

protect that time!• 8 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.?

• Use an electronic calendar with automated reminders

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Eliminate Distractions

• Schedule time for planning, preparation, project work, and activities you enjoy

• Turn off social media and email alerts• Don’t take email breaks (they are a myth)• Use the delayed send email function (don’t allow

emails to become a chat session)• You may close your door

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Go VerticalTickler Folders

Standing Table and Desk

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Set Goals, Have a Plan of Action, and Create Organization Systems• What are your big rocks (most important goals)?• A journey of a thousand miles begins with one step

(Identify important smaller steps as you create your plan of action)

• Read about how highly productive people manage their time

• Borrow ideas and systems

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Signature Tool

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Signature Tool Automation

• Google Docs• Evernote• OneNote (Microsoft)

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Declutter• Use tickler folders

• Daily• Monthly• Alphabetize frequently used or important folders

• Have a signature tool• Automate your signature tool

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Read Frank Buck’s Book

• Get Organized!: Time Management for School Leaders

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Shallow work is what stops you from getting fired. Deep work gets you promoted.Cal Newport

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What are your tips?

Round Table RotationsProviding Feedback

Welcome to the Activators of our Learning!

Jill Urich, Ankeny

Eric Nelson, Pella

Looking Ahead and Wrapping Up

Feb. 2 – Effective Hiring in a System of Teacher Leadership

Feb. 6 – Investigating Bullying

Feb. 10 – Law Conference

Feb. 13 – EQ: The Other Smart

Evaluation:

http://bit.ly/SecJan2015