Superintendents Statewide Mentoring MeetingWednesday, January 22, 2014

Outcomes: Grow your professional network; Revisit the instructional leadership priority

established in September and examine progress to date;

Explore strategies and approaches for engaging in collective bargaining;

Revisit the Learning Forward Standards for Professional Learning and the components of the Iowa Professional Development Model;

Collaborate around relevant pertinent issues; and

Examine your leadership-life fit.

Grounding our work today…“Teaching your Principal” (p. 30)

Skim and Say SomethingHow have you grown in addressing

the instructional leadership priority you established in September?

Round Table RotationsCollective Bargaining

Welcome to the Activators of our Learning!Dick Grimoskas, TiptonTodd Wendt, Le MarsSusie Meade, Winterset

Promoting the Learning of the Organization Dana Schon, SAI

Standard 2A school administrator is an educational leader who promotes the success of all students by advocating, nurturing, and sustaining a school culture and instructional program conducive to student learning and staff professional development.

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Activating Background Knowledge Mindstreaming

In your mentor-mentee partnership... Decide who will be partner ‘A’ and who

will be partner ‘B’. Partner A will have one minute to talk

about whatever comes to mind when you see the phrase on the next slide.

Partner B will listen without commenting.

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Standards for Professional Learning

Activating Background Knowledge Mindstreaming:

Partner B will have one minute to talk about whatever comes to mind when you see the phrase on the next slide.

Partner A will listen without commenting.

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Standards for Professional Learning

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Standards for Professional Learning

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Iowa Professional Development Model

Analyzing our Professional Learning Context:Read p 5Code each bullet according to the

following+ represents a strength in my district represents an area of progress in my

district represents an area not yet in place in

my districtPair-Share in a standing meeting

Implications for our Work

Open ForumWhat upcoming issues/concerns need our attention?

Identifying the IssuesOne-minute quick write: Jot down the

issues most pressing for you now.Consensus-building: In your table

team, identify the top 5 issues for your table and post athttp://padlet.com/wall/suptopenforum

Focused ConversationsVote with your Feet!

Choose your topic Choose the topic from this list you most

want to process: Budget TLC Calendar and future planning

Write down 3-5 questions/concerns you have about the topic.

Move to the area of the room designated for that conversation

Launch the Conversation A volunteer shares one of the

questions/concerns he/she jotted down. Group members respond and engage in

the conversation. Rotate until all questions/concerns have

been addressed. Generate a summary of the group’s

conversation to share with the large group.

Leadership-life FitDana Schon, SAI

By the end of this segment, participants will have… Used a Life Wheel to compare our

current leadership-life fit to our desired leadership-life fit, and

Identified an area for attention in order to move toward a better leadership-life fit.

Why the wheel?Yields a visual representation of

your current fit compared to your ideal fit.

Helps to identify the gaps keeping you from a better fit.

Increases awareness of how time and energy are spent.

Wheel of Life Example

Wheel of life Example

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Taking a Helicopter View Brainstorm the 6 to 8 dimensions of your life

that are important for you. The roles you play in life: husband/wife,

father/mother, manager, colleague, team member, sports player, community leader, or friend.

Areas of life that are important to you: artistic expression, positive attitude, career, education, family, friends, financial freedom, physical challenge, pleasure, or public service.

Your own combination of these (or different) things, reflecting the things that are your priorities in life.

Taking a Helicopter View

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Taking a Helicopter View Assess each area:

Consider each dimension in turn. On a scale of 0 (low) – to 10 (high), write down the

amount of attention you're devoting to that area of your life. You might also think of the ranking scale in terms of how satisfied you are with this area.

Mark each score on the appropriate spoke of your Life Wheel.

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Connect the dots! Consider your ideal fit.

Not a ‘5’ for each area—that echoes of that antiquated notion of balance.

Recognize some areas need more focus at any given time than others.

Leadership-life fit is unique to each individual—one person’s fitness may be another’s stress!

Energy and time are not in unlimited supply! Plot your ideal scores around your wheel.

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Commit to Action Note the gaps between your current fit and your ideal

fit as indicated by your wheel. Gaps can be both in areas that are not getting as

much attention as you'd like and in areas where you're putting in more effort than you'd ideally like. These areas could be sapping energy and enthusiasm that may better be directed elsewhere.

Start with the neglected areas: What things do you need to start doing to attain a better

fit? In the areas that currently take your energy and time,

what can you stop doing or reprioritize or delegate to someone else?

Note your commitments on the back of your wheel.

Next steps… Consider having a colleague or close

friend complete the wheel for you so you can compare your perception with theirs.

Final Thoughts & EvaluationUpcoming learning opportunities:http://www.sai-iowa.org/events.cfm

**Executive Leaders: Jan. 30-31, FFA Enrichment Center, Ankeny

Evaluation:http://bit.ly/JanEvalSupts