Goals for Session
• Explore enabling structures, conditions and processes for engaging in courageous
conversations – Focus: Curriculum Leadership
• Further develop facilitation skills – coaching moves question stems– conversation starters: engaging in courageous
conversations
• All ideas will be listened to carefully and responded to respectfully
• Everyone will have a voice• All questions and comments will be presented
with the intent to move the collective forward• Clarifying questions are welcome• Everyone will engage fully in the moment
Group Norms
7 Principles of Fierce Conversations• Master the courage to interrogate reality.
• Come out from behind yourself into the conversation and make it real.
• Be here, prepared to be nowhere else.
• Tackle your toughest challenge today.
• Obey your instincts.
• Take responsibility for your emotional wake.
• Let silence do the heavy lifting. Conversation Starters, page 22
PRIME Curriculum Leadership• Review the PRIME
Curriculum Leadership indicators and leadership actions for the three stages of leadership (BLM L.1.4).
• Identify the top three actions across the three Curriculum Leadership Principles that you are currently engaged in as a leader.
• Place each red dot above a different action indicator. (We will create a bar graph.)
PRIME Curriculum Leadership: Data Wall
PRIME Curriculum Leadership: Data Wall• Trends? • Questions? • Comments?
• We will revisit the data wall at the end of the day to consolidate our learning and consider next steps for leadership action.
Administrator Look-Fors for Effective Mathematics InstructionAction: Focused Breakout Area of Observation
Determining an Area of Focus• With your Cabin Buddies,
determine the area of focus for observation– select look-fors and
questions to be used– populate observation
template (BLM L.4A.2) – determine observation
format– determine Content-Focused
Breakout room(s) to visit
Observation Debrief• Which area of focus and lookfors did you use? • Which questions did you use? Why were these effective
[or not] during your observation?• What connections did you make to PRIME Curriculum
Leadership / 5 Core Leadership Capacities / SIP/BIP / Coaching Continuums?
• What enabling structures, conditions and processes are required to effectively create a culture of coaching?
• Which administrator actions are you considering in your effort to support effective mathematics instruction?