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Teacher LeadershipThe Best Hope for
Improving and Sustaining Student Achievement
Build Relationships “Friendship” Group Name School Share something that happened to you
recently or that you did recently that meant a lot to you.
Quotation Quest – Famous Leaders Pairs/Groups Work together to select the best words to fill
in the blanks ___ Minutes Let’s check your answers.
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Quotation Quest – Answers 1. “Be willing to make decisions. That’s the most
important quality in a good leader.”2. “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each
other.”3. “As we look ahead into the next century, leaders
will be those who empower others.”4. “Few things help an individual more that to place
responsibility upon him and to let him know you trust him.”
5. “Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.”
Quotation Quest – Answers 6. “Nothing great was ever achieved without
enthusiasm.” 7. “Nothing gives one person so much advantage over
another as to remain always cool and unruffled under any circumstances.”
8. “You can't build a reputation on what you’re going to do.”
9. “The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight but has no vision.”
10. “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.”
Reflect How do these quotations apply to you as a
leader?
Hardy Handshakes
Shake the hand of everyone in your group.
Say, “You worked hard on that!”
Objectives
Determine what is meant by leadership.
Identify leadership skills (EM)² to build connectedness for members of your department.
Identify some leadership strategies used to build a supportive community for your department, your students, and your school.
FCPS Review of Literature and Research
Leadership is: considered the single most important aspect of effective
school reform. important in setting the tone in a school. Climate is the
best predictor if a school will have high achievement. positively and significantly correlated to positive working
conditions. cause for employees to have an overall increase in
satisfaction. a predictor of adequate yearly progress (AYP) status. a powerful predictor of whether a school was included in
top school designation categories.
Evaluation ofLiterature and Research
These points demonstrate that: each FCPS employee needs to recognize him or
herself as a leader. Each employee needs to understand their
importance as a valuable contributor in the education and achievement of our students.
Leadership is Everyone’s Business
Teacher Leadership“When given opportunities to lead, teachers
can influence school reform efforts. Waking this sleeping giant of teacher leadership has unlimited potential in making a real difference in the pace and depth of school change.”
Katzenmeyer and Moller, Awakening the Sleeping Giant: Helping Teachers Develop as Leaders, 2001
What is Leadership?• Mobilizing others to get extraordinary things done in
organizations.• “It’s about the practices leaders use to:
• transform values into actions, • visions into realities, • obstacles into innovations, • separateness into solidarity, • and risks into rewards.” Kouzes and Posner
“Leadership is a choice not a position” Covey
Leaders energize people to excel, reach for greater heights and
achieve higher levels of performance.
Teacher LeadershipWhat is teacher leadership?
Charlotte Danielson defines it as:
“Skills demonstrated by teachers who continue to teach students but also have an influence that extends beyond their own classrooms to others within their school and elsewhere.”
Leadership Modules- (EM)2
Envision- Personal and organizational visions are understood by all
employees and they are aligned. All actions, structures and resources are aligned and in support of the vision.
Model- All employees work on a daily basis with integrity, caring for
others and serves as an example for others to emulate. Empower-
All employees feel empowered to do their job on a daily basis in order to carry out the vision and mission of the school system.
Motivate- All employees believe their well-being is cared for and
accomplishments are celebrated.
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Envision – Personal Vision, Organizational Vision, Align Visions
Purpose, Mission, Vision – Defined
Page 3 Leadership Department Example
Page 4 Personal Mission and Vision
Page 5 Department - Purpose, Mission, Vision
Page 5
Envision – Personal Vision, Organizational Vision, Align Visions
Create Buy-In – Tossed Salad Ways to Enlist Others (Ways to get to know your teachers, ways to
learn personal vision, ways to align their visions with others, etc.) Write ideas on slips of paper. One idea per slip of paper Put in bowl Toss and Pass Take one Read Discuss and Record Ideas – Page 6
Reflection on Envision – Personal Vision, Organizational Vision, Align Visions
What are you already doing to create buy-in for the mission/vision of the your department?
What new ideas do you have for creating a shared vision?
Page 7
Model - Set the Example, Inspire Trust, Develop Relationships, Enhance Communication
Department Chairs/Specialists - Simultaneously Working with Peers and School Administrators
Lead Across and Lead Up – Card Sort
Reflection – Page 8
Model - Set the Example, Inspire Trust, Develop Relationships, Enhance Communication
Enhanced Communication Skills Rank Effective Listening Empathic Listening
Defined Helpful Language Tips Scenarios
Rank Effective Listening
Partner/Group Read the student and teacher exchange on
each card Rank the teacher responses from effective to
ineffective according to how the response shows effective listening in order to build relationships.
Empathic Listening Defined
… is reflecting what a person feels and says in your own words.
It is not listening to advise, counsel, reply, refute, solve, fix, change, judge, agree, disagree, question, analyze, or figure out.
Empathic Listening
Helpful Language to Get You Started “You feel …” “You seem…” “You must have felt…” “You sound…” “What I’m hearing is …” “Your feeling now is…”
Empathic Listening
Tips: Focus on the speaker, not on your “correct”
response to the speaker. If you get stuck, just repeat what the speaker
says. If you are sincerely trying to understand, you won’t be perceived as being manipulative.
Don’t be afraid of silence. Sometimes just listening and saying nothing is the best way to get to the heart of an issue.
Empathic Listening
Scenarios
Partners/Groups Read each scenario Write an empathic response to each scenario
Teacher LeadershipDealing with Negativity
Expressions of negativity are common in school.Questioning and challenging comments are healthy, but
negativity for its own sake is not!“We tried that once and it didn’t work.”“Without additional funding, there is nothing we can
do.”“That’s ridiculous to ask us to do that. Will we get
extra pay?”
Teacher LeadershipPerhaps the most important contribution
that a teacher leader can make to school improvement is to resist the temptation to become negative or cynical. Where
negativity and cynicism abound, there is neither energy nor motivation for
change.
Model - Set the Example, Inspire Trust, Develop Relationships, Enhance Communication
Reflection Create a visual of what it means to
“Model” Leadership. Use no words or as few words as
possible. Be ready to explain your visual to the
rest of the group.
Empower – Collaborate, Build a Team, Provide Opportunities
What is Team Building? Brainstorm list of team building activities
Empower – Collaborate, Build a Team, Provide Opportunities
Benefits of Team Building Prioritize items on list
Motivate – Recognize Contributions, Show Appreciation, Celebrate
The Encouragement Index Debrief – Boosting Your Score
How often do you engage in encouraging behaviors?
Rank yourself on “The Encouragement Index.”
How often do you engage in each of these behaviors?
Add to get a total. Check the explanation of your score.
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Boosting Your ScoreBy rating yourself… You’ve gained insight You’ve automatically gotten ideas about
ways to improve Trust your intuition to choose the next
right step.
“What separates effective leaders from ineffective leaders,… is how much they really care about the people they lead.” Kouzes and Posner
The Theory of the Dipper and the Bucket
“We are truly magnificent when our buckets are full.”
Each has an invisible bucket. Constantly emptied or filled, depending on
what others say or do to us. Full bucket = Positive outlook and renewed
energy Empty bucket = poisons our outlook, saps
our energy, and undermines our will.
The Theory of the Dipper and the Bucket
“We are truly magnificent when our buckets are full.”
So we have a choice every moment of every day:
We can fill one another’s buckets, or we can dip from them. It’s an important choice—one that profoundly influences our relationships, productivity, health, and happiness.
ReflectReflectHow Will You Fill Buckets?
List 5 strategies to use with your department or with individuals in your department that will help you fill buckets.
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What is Leadership?
“The litmus test of all leadership is whether it mobilizes people’s commitment to putting their energy into actions designed to improve things. It is individual commitment, but above all it is collective mobilization.”
Michael Fullan
Leading in a Culture of Change, p.9
FCPS Leadership Development Programs and Initiatives Aspiring Assistant Principal Internship Aspiring Assistant Principal Course Higher Education Partnerships – Pending Summer Symposium
Ongoing Leadership Development Opportunities
Book Studies College Masters’ Degree and Certification in
Admin. and Supervision or Ed. Leadership Curriculum Writing Workshops Local, State and National Conferences and
Workshops
Ongoing Leadership Development Opportunities
Mentor and Coaching Opportunities MSDE Professional Development Courses National Board Certification School-based Leadership and Professional
Development Opportunities
Objectives
Determine what is meant by leadership.
Identify leadership skills (EM)² to build connectedness for members of your department.
Identify some leadership strategies used to build a supportive community for your department, your students, and your school.
Leadership Modules- (EM)2
Envision- Personal and organizational visions are understood by all
employees and they are aligned. All actions, structures and resources are aligned and in support of the vision.
Model- All employees work on a daily basis with integrity, caring for
others and serves as an example for others to emulate. Empower-
All employees feel empowered to do their job on a daily basis in order to carry out the vision and mission of the school system.
Motivate- All employees believe their well-being is cared for and
accomplishments are celebrated.
Reflect on Leadership and (EM)2
What w
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training? H
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Who You Are
Makes a Difference