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What? So what? Now what?
Questions to Help SAM Teams
Achieve Their GoalsDr. Kevin Ballard, EdD; NBCT
Seventh Annual National SAM/Principal Conference Hotel Del Coronado ~ San Diego, California
February 1, 2014
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Lifelong Learning
What more would you like to learn from your experience as a SAM administrator or a member of a SAM team?
What have you learned from your experience as a SAM administrator or as a member of a SAM team?
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What is SAM?“SAM is a professional development process using a unique set of tools to change a principal’s focus from school management tasks to instructional leadership—activities directly connected to improving teaching and learning.”
http://www.samsconnect.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/SAM-Info.pdf
Primary Activities of SAM Teams
• Collect data
• Analyze data
• Use data
• What?
• So what?
• Now what?
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GoalTo help SAM teams use three questions – What? So what? Now what? – to be more reflective, purposeful, and effective by engaging in a reiterative process in which they collect, analyze, and use data to inform decisions.
What? So what? Now what?
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What?
An integral part of the SAM process to change a principal’s focus from school management tasks to instructional leadership is to collect data about how much instructional, management, and personal time a principal uses.
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Instructional Descriptors
Student Supervision Work With Student(s)Feedback: DirectiveOffice Work/PrepWalkthroughObservationFeedback: Non-DirectiveParents/GuardiansDecision Making Committees, Groups, MeetingsDistrict: Meetings, Supervisor, OthersExternal: Officials, OthersModeling/TeachingProfessional DevelopmentPlanning, Curriculum, AssessmentCelebration
What?
General ManagementStudent SupervisionStudent DisciplineEmployee SupervisionOffice Work/PrepBuilding ManagementParents/GuardiansDecision Making Committees, MeetingsDistrict: Meetings, Supervisor, OthersExternal: Officials, OthersCelebration
Management Descriptors
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First Responders – What? Walkthroughs – What?TimeTrack – What? SAM meetings – What? Did ___ – What? Did not do ___ – What?
What?
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What?Merely doing something and collecting data is not an effective and efficient way to change a principal’s focus from school management tasks to instructional leadership.
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Merely collecting data does not help SAM teams reach their goals “to change a principal’s focus from school management tasks to instructional leadership.” Therefore, successful SAM teams analyze data to make meaning of their data.
So what?
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Leading change to create high performing, results driven organizations • A principal can be more effective by using his/her
TimeTrack data to inform decision making and determine next steps with a teacher or group to focus on the team’s goals
• The SAM team must regularly consider and reflect on the impact of the principal’s instructional leadership work using TimeTrack data and charts• Discuss the impact of the leader’s time on an individual
teacher’s practice • Discuss the impact of the leader’s time on a group’s practice • Discuss the impact of the leader’s time on a student or
parent’s practice
So what?
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TimeTrack Review: Seven Questions 1. Is the team at/above goal? 2. Is the team scheduling at/above goal in advance? 3. Is the team connecting events with individual
teachers and groups? 4. Is a TimeTrack daily meeting scheduled every day? 5. Do you see evidence of follow-up scheduling? 6. Are events reconciled? 7. Is the principal/SAM scheduling the descriptors
they said they wanted to do more of?
So what?
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Interpretive Questions • What are you learning about yourself through
this experience? • What things could you have done/could you do
to increase your instructional time? • What things could you have done/could you do
to increase your principal’s instructional time? • What are things that you might have done/could
do in the next month to find ways to provide meaningful feedback to your teachers?
So what?
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First Responders – What? So what?Walkthroughs – What? So what?TimeTrack – What? So what?SAM meetings – What? So what?Did ___ – What? So what?Did not ___ – What? So what?
So what?
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So what?
Merely collecting and analyzing data is not an effective and efficient way to change a principal’s focus from school management tasks to instructional leadership.
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Merely collecting and analyzing data does not help SAM teams reach their goals “to change a principal’s focus from school management tasks to instructional leadership.” Therefore, successful SAM teams use the findings of their data analysis to engage in reflective practice and to inform their decisions; thereby, continuing the reiterative process of collecting, analyzing, and using data to inform decisions.
Now what?
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“Making an impact means taking action.”
(Pam Salazar)
VisionInquiryAction
ACTION – MAKE IT HAPPEN – GO!
Now what?
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“Begin with the end in mind.” (Stephen Covey)
Backwards planning – (McTigghe and Wiggins)
The focus is on learning by having a good design which is based on the development and use of good strategies and best practices which are supported by data.
Now what?
Find effective and efficient ways to reach your goal
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Now what?
Analyze
Use
Collect
“Creating organizational cultures that value learning, coaching and continuous improvement.”
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“Intentionally lead and approach change through multiple perspectives, identify high leverage
change strategies, and achieve an early-win to success.” (Bert Hendee)
“…. understanding develops and deepens as a result of rethinking and reflection (i.e., to dig deeper into the Big Ideas), and to refine and
reflect their work based on feedback.” (McTighe and Wiggins)
Now what?
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• Ways to rethink• Shift perspective• Reconsider key assumptions• Confront alternate versions• Reexamine the argument and evidence• Consider new information
Now what?
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Decisional Questions • What things will you do differently between now
and a specified future date? • What things will you do to increase your
instructional time in your goal areas? • What can you do during this next month to
contribute to your principal’s future success? • What are your next steps? • What actions/ideas has this triggered for you? • What are you going to do to ensure that the two of
you have the required daily meeting every day?
Now what?
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Now what?Three Easy Questions for Daily Meetings for Every
Event
SAM Daily Meeting - http://www.samsconnect.com/forms/NSIP%20Flip%20Book.pdf)
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First Responders – What? So what? Now what?Walkthroughs – What? So what? Now what?TimeTrack – What? So what? Now what?SAM meetings – What? So what? Now what?Did ___ – What? So what? Now what? Did not ___ – What? So what? Now what?
So what?
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Now what?Merely collecting and analyzing data is not an effective and efficient way to change a principal’s focus from school management tasks to instructional leadership. Change requires using data.
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What? So what? Now what?
• Collect data
• Analyze data
• Use data
• What?
• So what?
• Now what?
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What did I learn?
So what does this learning mean to me?
Now what will I do with that I learned?
What? So what? Now what?
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Dr. Kevin Ballard, EdD; NBCT
Dr. Kevin Ballard is a National Board Certified teacher in library media. He is the Information Specialist for a middle school in Illinois, where he is also the SAM. Kevin is also a certified advanced facilitator for the University of Phoenix where he has taught more than 200 undergraduate classes since 2006. Additionally, Kevin a professional church musician who has directed vocal choirs, handbells, chamber orchestras, and contemporary worship bands. He is active in the American Guild of Organists and the National Association of Pastoral Musicians. Dr. Ballard received his doctorate in higher education and adult learning from Walden University, his master's degree in educational leadership from the American College of Education, his master’s degree in adult education and distance learning from the University of Phoenix, his master’s in music performance from Mankato State University, and his bachelor’s in curriculum and instruction from Dr. Martin Luther College. Kevin can be contacted at [email protected].