Transcript Leadership for Innovation and Change

Leadership for
Innovation and Change
Steve Barkley
March 2015
Leadership for Innovation
and Change
How do you plan backwards from the student
success you want to the leadership behaviors you
need to implement? Can you reach the student
success you want by improving current practices
or is change/innovation required? What elements
of “teaming” are essential for innovation? Steve
will facilitate your reflection on these questions.
School Change
Source: Model developed
by Stephen Barkley
Student Achievement
What is the definition of student
achievement that drives your work?
STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT
GOALS
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ACADEMICS - knowledge and skills to be successful in
school and life.
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LIFE SKILLS - aptitude, attitude and skills to lead
responsible, fulfilling and respectful lives.
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RESPONSIBILITY TO THE COMMUNITY - attributes
that contribute to an effective and productive community
and the common good of all.
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Tough Choices or
Tough Times
…comfort with ideas and
abstractions is the passport
to the good life, in which
high levels of education – a
very different kind of
education than most of us
have had – are going to be
the only security there is.
Are we ready for this student?
Student Achievement
How has technology
modified or changed
your definition of
student achievement?
Where do gaps exist?
Current
status
gap
Vision
School Change
Source: Model developed
by Stephen Barkley
Student Behaviors
What student behaviors need to
be initiated or increased to gain
the desired student achievement?
Student Behaviors
• Reading as choice
• Writing
• Finding problem to
solve
• Researching
• Asking Questions
• Following a Passion
• Persevering/Effort
• Working independently
and collaboratively
• Taking risk in learning
• Using technology to
research and produce
• Adapting to change
Teacher Behaviors
What teacher behaviors are most likely to
generate the desired student behaviors?
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Teacher Behaviors
• Teach the desired
student behavior.
• Model the desired
student behavior.
George Couros
Compliance
Engagement
Empowerment
George Couros
So if we want to get to this idea of ‘empowering’ our
students, we are not going to have to be the ‘sage on
the stage’ or the ‘guide at the side’, but ‘architects of
meaningful learning opportunities’. Understanding our
students, their interests, abilities, and strengths, will
help us better design learning that gets them to, as
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi describes, a state of “flow“.
School Change
Source: Model developed
by Stephen Barkley
Staff Relationships
Are there changes that need to occur in the way
that staff members work with each other (staff
relationships) in order for the desired individual
staff member changes to occur?
If so, describe.
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Teacher Relationships
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Parallel Play
Adversarial Relationships
Congenial Relationships
Collegial Relationships
Roland S. Barth
Relationships Within the Schoolhouse
ASCD 2006
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Vulnerability
Individual
Franchise
My
Work
Design
together
My
Time
Implement
individually
Helping
each
other
Trust
Vulnerability ACTION
Team
Shared
responsibility
for student
achievement
Modify
Individual
Behavior,
Consensus on
implementation
Trust
School Change
Source: Model developed
by Stephen Barkley
Leadership Behaviors
What gaps in student
achievement can be closed
by improving what we are
doing?
Where must we change
rather than improve what
we are doing?
How is Professional
Development
…preparing teachers to create the
school of your vision?
Progress
Implementation of change:
• Leadership actions and
conversations
• Teacher conversations
• Teacher behaviors
• Student experiences and
behaviors
• Student Achievement
What are the early
leadership actions
needed to move your
school toward your
vision?
Assessment of leaders effectiveness in
communicating values should include the
following questions:
1. What do leaders plan for?
2. What do leaders monitor?
3. What do leaders model?
4. What do leaders reinforce through recognition and
celebration?
5. What behaviors are leaders willing to confront?
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