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Creating Space for Building Your Leadership Real Estate Presented by Susan Holiday Prince George’s County Public Schools

Wallace Foundation 5 Key Practices • Shaping Vision • Creating a Climate Hospital to Education • Cultivating Leadership in Others • Improving Instruction • Managing People, Data, and Processes

Objectives Participants will • identify the difference between technical and adaptive work. • engage in activities that will assist with identifying areas in their current school they can establish themselves as an instructional leader.

How can we divide our work? Make a list of 5 things that you have done in your job in the past 5 days.

PGCPS Coherence Framework Why we do our work?

Leadership Failure “….the single most common source of leadership failure we’ve been able to identify – in politics, community life, business, or the non-profit sector – is that people, especially those in positions of authority, treat adaptive challenges like technical problems” (Heifetz & Linsky, 2002, p. 14).

Challenges Leaders Face Technical Adaptive Challenges that can be Change must come from solved by knowledge of new learning and from experts. Change has a the collective clearly defined problem, intelligence of solution and employees at all levels. implementation. Ronald A. Heifetz

How can we divide our work? Kind of Work Problem Definition Solutions and Primary Focus of Implementation Responsibility for the Work Technical Clear Clear Authority Technical and Adaptive Clear Requires Learning Authority and Stakeholder Adaptive Requires Learning Requires Learning Stakeholder Center for Integrated Leadership Dr. Ronald Heifetz

Now that you know the difference between adaptive and technical Activity #1 work, label your 5 items as either: • Technical • Adaptive

Poll Questions • Which area (technical • Which area (technical or adaptive) would or adaptive) would you place classroom you place cafeteria observation? duty?

How do you create the “space” for more adaptive work?

What are your school's Big Rocks? List 2-3 items that your school is “focused on. For example: • Questioning Techniques • Writing in Math • Vocabulary • School Wide Behavior System

Elements of the PGCPS Coherence Framework Culture Systems Structures Stakeholders Resources norms and values processes and define how the work people and groups financial resources that drive the procedures through of the school gets inside and outside throughout the behavior and work which work gets done; includes how of the district organization; done people are includes people and organized, who has physical assets responsibility and such as technology accountability for and data. results, and who makes or influences decisions.

• Leadership Meeting Glen Dale E.S. • Data Instructional • Quarterly Benchmark • Student Work Samples Rock • Staff Meeting • Professional Development • Vertical Planning

DataWise Improvement What is DataWise? Process The mission of the DataWise Improvement Process is to support educators in using collaborative data inquiry to drive continuous improvement of teaching and learning of all students.

School Example: Vertical Planning Culture Systems Structures Stakeholders Resources ● ● ● ● ● Data Wise Administration Collaborative All teachers, SBB Money ● Norms Meeting Planning paraprofessi Classrooms ● ● Timekeeper (Allocating (Provide onals, Technology teachers time and Money for specialists (laptops, to collaborate) ● Notetaker materials) Administration overhead ● Master ● ● ● District Meeting Professional projectors) Schedule ● Content Notes in Development Postage Rolling Specialist Google Drive (Content & pads Agenda ● ● ● Custodians Weekly Instructional Markers ● Grade Level Practice Curriculum ● Meetings Leadership Maps ● ● Collaboration Meetings Performance ● ● Plans for a Staff Surveys Matters culture of learning that meets the needs of all students

Rolling Agenda Structure in which meetings are held and facilitated. Key Components: • Objectives • Times • Notes • Next Steps • Plus/Deltas • Archives Information

Big Rock: Discipline System Culture Systems Structures Stakeholders Resources

Create Your Space! The best way to predict the future is to create it Abraham Lincoln Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. Albert Einstein

Resources • Wallace Foundation www.wallacefoundation.org • DataWise Improvement Process

Creating Space for Building Your Leadership Real Estate Q & A Write your questions for the presenters in the “Question” box on the webinar panel.