Medina Elementary School School Board Presentation – February 6 th , 2018 Presented by: Laurie Harvey ‐ Principal For additional information regarding this presentation contact: Name – Laurie Harvey, Principal Email: harveyl@bsd405.org Phone: (425)456‐5405 1 The Bellevue School District Mission: To provide all students with an exemplary college preparatory education so they can succeed in college, career and life.
Updates to Share Since Medina’s School Improvement Plan was recently approved by the School Board, there have been no updates on progress, goals, and strategies. This report will instead focus on implementation of two core school goals/initiatives: • Distributive Leadership • Equity and Inclusion 2
Distributive Leadership 10 Principles to Move Your School Toward Distributive Leadership Nicole Assisi, CEO Thrive, Public Schools in San Diego, CA, March 2 administrators may have the trickiest 1. Remember: Everyone is a Novice & an Expert part to play—they must share the 2. Embrace ALL Parts of Entrepreneurship leadership role, and trust “their 3. Know the Vision & Share it Often people”—their students, teachers, parents. This distributed leadership 4. Give People Voice and Choice approach is a collaborative effort 5. Create Systemic Autonomy undertaken between people who trust and respect each other’s 6. Hire Well contributions. By using principles of 7. Get Out of the Way: Don’t Micromanage! distributed leadership, school 8. Allow Opportunities for Assessment administrators can empower people to make great decisions, learn from 9. Focus on Skill & Will 3 mistakes and reach new heights. 10. Celebrate Small Victories
Organizational Health Survey 2017 ‐ 2018 4
Distributive Leadership: Teams 5
Building Initiative Reflections Wasn’t really working… Leadership Team Communication System : ‐ Teams struggled to find their rhythm or system for communicating topics, needs, decisions or outcomes discussed within the teams So we… ‐ Questioned our processes within our team structures plan to determine where the breakdowns were and we developed a Distributed Leadership Plan Now we’re seeing… 6 ‐ More cohesion in process, significant reduction of frustration, increased levels of communication across Teams and staff
Reflections : Distributive Leadership Challenges: • Assumptions about weekly team meetings (small teams) • Teachers were frustrated due to lack of information shared • Team decisions not getting made due to lack of cohesion with staff Actions: • Conducted informal interviews with team members • Shared findings with the Equity and Inclusion team to discuss solutions • Increased use of OneNote by teams, emailed staff OneNote link Outcomes: • Teams working with clear and specific focus/intent • Improved systemic communication – increased staff leadership 7 • Staff ownership of topics of interest, need, and outcomes on behalf of students served daily
SIP Reflections Wasn’t really working… Equity And Inclusion : ‐ Equity Team collaboratively learning together year prior, but fear from team and staff about roll out to all staff this year, some push back So we… ‐ Went to the Equity and Inclusion Team to discuss and plan next steps Now we’re seeing… 8 ‐ Increased trust, improved levels of ownership and partnership within Equity and Inclusion Team
Reflections : Equity and Inclusion Challenges: • Equity Team working cohesively, not rolled out to full staff yet • Fear/push back from staff regarding full staff Equity professional development • Support team working independently on behalf of students of need Actions: • Conducted informal inquiries with team members • Shared findings with the Equity and Inclusion team, and discussed at large • Created a proposal regarding timeline and approach for staff Equity and Inclusion professional development • Modeled and then Positioned our Equity and Inclusion team leaders to lead building based professional development Outcomes: • Increased trust and transparency within team, across staff • Improved levels of ownership and partnership within Equity and Inclusion 9 Team • Team ownership in staff Equity and Inclusion conversations and shared learning responsibility
Next Steps Distributive Leadership Model: Analyze and share 2017 Organizational Health Survey data with staff Discuss next steps with Equity and Inclusion Leadership team based on OH data Solicit ongoing feedback from staff, both openly and confidentially to inform our practice Discuss how our staff performance data is impacting our student performance data with Equity and Inclusion Leadership Team Equity and Inclusion: Partner more proactively with District Equity Team and our Equity Specialist Encourage remaining staff to take Beyond Diversity 1 Discuss and develop ways to keep our community informed of our EI 10 work
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