Transcript Chapter 6 Collaborative Leadership

Chapter 6
Collaborative Leadership
Perry C. Hanavan
Collaborative Leadership
- is a process or method to guide a diverse
group of people to find solutions to complex
problems that affect them all
Collaborative Leadership
• It is leadership shown by a group that is
acting together to solve agreed upon issues.
• It uses supportive and inclusive methods to
ensure that all people affected by a decision
are part of the change process.
• It requires a new notion of power...the more
power we share, the more power we have to
use.
Social Capital (Chapter 1)
• - refers to those stocks of social trust,
norms and networks that people can
draw upon to solve common problems.
• Networks of civic engagement, such as
neighborhood associations, sports clubs,
and cooperatives, are an essential form of
social capital, and the denser these
networks, the more likely that members of a
community will cooperate for mutual
benefit.
Types of Capital
• "Social capital adheres in the set of relationships
among people and those relationships are
productive to the extent that they are based on a
common set of expectations, a set of shared values,
and a sense of trust among people."
• "Financial capital is based on money," "whereas
human capital is the stock of knowledge and skills
individuals have, based on what their education or
experience has given them.“
• President Bush referred to using his “political
capital” after winning re-election in which he is
pushing for social security reform
Social Capital in Schools
• Various school reform approaches are noteworthy
• The Algebra Project District 4 in East Harlem develop
various strategies for: mobilizing networks of parents and
developing their leadership capacities; incorporating
parents into multidisciplinary teams; bringing adult
education and services into school buildings; developing
student internships and service learning in community
organizations; organizing oral history and other projects
around the stories of community leaders; involving
community and local business leaders in mentoring
• Schools build on the notion of creating a "conspiracy of the
entire community" to educate the child
Social Capital Web Sources
• Bowling Alone
• New Leaders (MCREL)
Leadership
• Schools, Parents and Teachers are
increasingly involved in a collaborative
manner in the schools
– Site-based teams
– Collaborative decision-making teams
• Each brings many ingredients of stimulating
productive experiences
Collaborative Leadership
"Discovery consists of looking at the
same thing as everyone else and
thinking something different.“
-Albert Szent Gyorgi
Leadership
"Strength lies in differences, not in
similarities"
--Stephen R. Covey
Wants, Needs, Desires
• Parents, Teachers and Administrators have
essentially the same goals
– Each has an interest in student success
• "In the best of all possible worlds, community
members would participate to a high degree in all
aspects of their community life. Service
organizations such as welfare would find many
better ways to involve the people they serve in
decisionmaking and in the formation of policy. In
the worst-case scenario, social service
professionals sit in their offices in high-rise
buildings in the city and dispense forms."
Wehlage on Social Captital
• "If collaboration is such a good idea, why is it so
hard to do?"
• "The successful programs try to serve youth in
general instead of identifying who is at risk and
who is not at risk and then only serve those
labeled at risk. Why not just serve them all?"
• "Who wants to go to the clinic if it is only for kids
who are pregnant or have something wrong with
them? If you create a different environment,
everybody wants to come to it."
Collaborative Leadership
School
Parents
Each has an
interest in
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education
Community
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classroom management
parent involvement
parent education
cooperative education
charter school
site-based management
Continuum of Parent Leaders
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Parent leader with no training
parent leader with leadership training
parent leader with a structured curriculum
parent leader with professional support
parent leader with parent support
professional teacher
To be successful:
• shared goal setting and decision making
• mutual accountability
Needs Assessment
1. Developing items for a needs assessment
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Brainstorming
Annoyance Test
Open-ended questions
Question-answer sheet
Question box
2. Development of Objectives
How Parents Learn Best
• positive climate
• risk eliminated
• parents are recognized for having something worthwhile to
contribute
• parents are actively involved in their own education
• curriculum addresses their concerns and needs
• parents discover the need for change on their own
• respect and encouragement
• real situations and analogies are used
• positive feedback
• different approaches
• problem solving and analysis
• relevant topics
• parents are considered part of the learning-teaching team
Types of Meetings
• Formal
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lectures
lecture-forum
symposium
audio
audio visual
book review
debate
colloquy
panel
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brainstorming
roundtable
concentric table
buzz sessions
workshop
dyad interaction
role playing
dramatization
panel
Roles in Groups
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Initiator
Leader
Information seeker
Clarifier
Questioner
Asserter
Energizer
Elaborator
Orientator
Opinion giver
Summerizer
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Encourager
Harmonizer
Listener
Follower
Tension breaker
Compromiser
Standard setter
Observer
Recorder
Gatekeeper
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Dominator
Aggressor
Negativist
Playboy
Blocker
Competitor
Deserter
Recognition
seeker