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WHAT? SO WHAT? NOW WHAT? Equity Conference February, 2010 Dr. Marsha Lay and Suzy Cutbirth C & L Facilitation Equity Oriented Leade
WHAT?SO WHAT?
NOW WHAT?Equity Conference
February, 2010 Dr. Marsha Lay and Suzy Cutbirth
C & L Facilitation
Equity Oriented Leadership
Session Goals:
1. To enhance participants understanding of equitable leadership
2. To provide participants with strategies to support and strengthen the development of equity leadership practices
3. To introduce Experiential Education / Reflective Practice as effective learning processes.
What?
Equity Attitude
The role of an educational leader…….
“goes beyond the notion of instructional leader to the leader as a cultural change agent”
Kruse and Seashore, 2009
Wha
t?
Systemic Equity Leadership
As a leader guiding the development of a culture that values equitable practices in education, I must challenge traditional leadership models and insist on developing leadership practices to identify and dismantle systems that produce and support inequitable results.
Wha
t?
Setting Expectation
If you can’t decide what an ideal system would look like, you can’t create policies to get
there.It is easier to get from point A to point B if you know where point
B is and how to recognize it when you arrive.
Naisbitt and Aburdene
Ideal School EXPECTATION
S
Behaviors/Actions
Structures Beliefs
Events
What’s happening?
Patterns of BehaviorWhat’s been happening?
What are the trends?What changes have
ocurred?
Structures
What has influenced the patterns?(e.g. rules, lesson plans, curriculum)
What are the relationships among the parts?
Mental Models
What values, beliefs and assumptions do you have about teaching?
What is seen
What is generallyunseen
Learning
Leverage
The Iceberg Model .... S urfacing and challenging our assumptions
Adapted from Innovation Associates, Inc. 2002
So
Wha
t?
So What?
ALL systems are perfectly aligned to get the results they get….. Margaret Wheatley, 2000
Equally Important!!!
WHA T ABOUT ME!
So What?
Principles in Action
Reflective Practice Activity:
Complete and ask leadership team to complete as they see your
“Principles in Action”
???????????????
“There is a mysterious connection between language and thinking”
R. Rogers, 2010
Are you asking the right questions?
Tinkering or Transforming?
Technical vs. Adaptive Change……
Significant systemic change requires more than tweaking… it is the breaking down and rebuilding of structures to support our expectations, beliefs and values……
Built on Leadership Practices
TRUST
Commitment
Communication
Interdependence
Accountability
MutualRespect
Common Purpose
© M.Lay,2007
Collaboration Survey
What skills, attitudes, experiences define a ………..good collaborator?
WHAT DOES RESEARCH SAY?
ResearchResearchAdults learn best through reflecting on their experiences.
(Costa and Garmston, 2002)
All learning occurs through conversation.
(Bruffee, 1999)
EE Activities
Support the development of Expectation for equal participation
(everyone has a voice) Relationship development ( the
conversation is the relationship) Supports disequilibrium …challenges the
status quo through systematic and thoughtful actions..
NOW WHAT?
How do we know we are designing the experiences to support the work?
What is our evidence?
Are we asking the right questions?
Session Goals:
1. To enhance participants understanding of equitable leadership
2. To provide participants with strategies to support and strengthen the development of equity leadership practices
3. To introduce Experiential Education / Reflective Practice as effective learning processes.
What?
Exit Activity – BRAIN FULL
Directions: On a post it write 3 take- aways from the last 45 minutes.
When I say go..you are to find someone in the room you don’t know and ask them for their 3, you share your 3 and then you move on….
When your BRAIN IS FULL….. Go back to your table and list all of the things you can remember…
THANKS ! Dr. Marsha Lay & Suzy Cutbirth
C & L Facilitation Springfield, Missouri
NOW WHAT?
