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Developing Effective School
Improvement Teams
October 20, 2009
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Regional
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HSTW NE Ohio
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Don
Washburn
Catherine
Imperatore
Diana
Rogers
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Electronic Media
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ACTE
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HSTW/MMGW
School Improvement
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HSTW C/SE Ohio
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Creating Our Own Future
Change is disturbing when it is done to
us, exhilarating when it is done by us.
SOURCE: Resabeth Moss Kanter
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Take Away from Today
If teachers are to successfully
teach all students to high
standards, virtually everyone who
affects student learning must be
learning virtually all the time.
SOURCE: Sparks in Guskey 2000, Evaluating Professional Development
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Our Essential Questions
• Why should we have instructional leadership
teams (ILT)?
• What is the purpose of ILTs?
• How do we structure teams?
• Who should serve on teams?
• What are team members’ roles?
• How do we find time for meetings?
• What do regular meetings look like?
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Why ILT?
 When teachers formed learning teams for
sharing, observing, and peer coaching
 88% used new strategies regularly and effectively.
SOURCE: Lashway, 1988, Effective Leadership Effective Schools
 The effectiveness of the classroom teacher’s
instructional strategies is the
 #1 factor in increasing student achievement…
SOURCE: What Matters Most: Teaching for America’s Future
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What is the purpose of ILT?
ILT’s are small groups of people with
complimentary skills who are committed to:
• Shared purpose
• Shared performance goals
• Shared approach to school improvement
SOURCE: Building Instructional Leadership Teams That Make a Difference, SREB, 2008-2009
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Instructional Leadership Teams:
• A Real Team
• Researchers, Questioners, Decision-Makers, Collaborators
• Focused on Instructional Practices that Impact Student
Achievement
SOURCE: Building Instructional Leadership Teams That Make a Difference, SREB, 2008-2009
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Poll Activity
Share an example from your own experience in working
together with teachers.
How would you classify this experience?
 a) Committee
 b) Instructional Leadership Team
 c) Unsure
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How do we structure ILTs?
The litmus test of all leadership is whether it mobilizes
people’s commitment to putting their energy into
actions designed to improve things.
SOURCE: Fullan, 2001, The Moral Imperative of School Leadership
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ILT Structure and Principal Readiness
– Have you experienced shared leadership?
– What authority are you willing to share?
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Principal’s Role in Sharing Power
The principal builds capacity of ILT:
– Models shared leadership
– Shapes cultural conditions that support people to
grow and to be at their best
– Provides vision, guidance, resources
– Encourages and supports teams
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Structures of ILTs
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Horizontal alignment
Vertical alignment
Specialist arrangement
Combination of teams
SOURCE: Center for Performance Assessment, 2006
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Horizontal ILT
Middle Grades
Grade 6 Math Teacher
Grade 6 ELA Teacher
Grade 6 Science/SS Teacher
SOURCE: Center for Performance Assessment, 2006
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Vertical ILT
Middle/High School Math Team
Grade 7 Math Teachers
Grade 8 Math Teachers
Grade 9 Math Teachers
SOURCE: Center for Performance Assessment, 2006
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Specialist ILT
Grade 9 Transition Team
Special Education
Language Support
Specialist
Grade 9 English
Music
Art
Grade 9 Math
SOURCE: Center for Performance Assessment, 2006
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Poll Activity
What types of Instructional Leadership Team (ILT)
structures do you have in place in your school?
 a) Horizontal teams
 b) Vertical teams
 c) Specialist teams
 d) Two or more of the above
 e) None of the above
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Who should serve on the teams?
• Getting people on the “ILT” team bus — and in
the right seats…
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ILT Members on the Right Bus…
SOURCE: Center for Performance Assessment, 2006
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What are Team Members’ Roles?
Team Leader:
Recorder:
Reminds members of tasks
and purpose
Refocuses dialogue on
processes and agenda items
Takes minutes
Distributes Minutes to Data
Team leader, colleagues,
administrators
 minutes
Timekeeper:
Entire Team Members:
Follows time frames
allocated on the agenda
Informs group of time frames
during dialogue
Listens
Questions
Contributes
Commits
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Team Development Wheel
SOURCE: Building Instructional Leadership Teams That Make a Difference, SREB, 2008-2009
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How do we find time for meetings?
• Rotating Substitutes
• Assembly Schedule
• Early Release/Late Start Days
• Waiver Days
• Planning Period Exchange
• Common Planning Time
• Monthly Use of Rotating Period
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How often should we meet?
Frequency of Meetings:
• District Reviews Progress of ILT’s Quarterly
• ILT’s Meet Monthly at a Minimum
Duration of Meetings:
• ILT’s Meet from 45 to 120 minutes
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Principal’s Expectations
for Monthly Meeting
• Meet at least monthly to discuss
– Achievement gaps
– Successes and challenges
– Progress monitoring
– Assessment schedules
– Intervention needs
– Resources
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What do regular meetings look like?
You should pay special attention to a handful of
high leverage behaviors.
 Use data well.
 Focus your goals.
 Share instructional practices.
 Implement deeply.
 Monitor and provide feedback and support.
Source: Patterson, K., et. Al. (2008). Influencer: The Power to Change Anything. McGraw-Hill. NY, NY
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Establishing Meeting Norms
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Listen Actively
Speak from your Own Experience
Practice Timely Attendance
Respectfully Challenge One Another
Participate to the Fullest of Your Ability
Be Conscious of Body Language and
Non-verbal Responses
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The Meeting Process
Pose a
question
10 minutes
Take action
8- 10 minutes
Decide how
to change
practice
5 - 10 minutes
Gather data
Analyze
data
3 -5 minutes
3 - 5 minutes
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Sample Meeting Agenda & Minutes
Team: Literacy
Date: 9/28/09
Time: 2:30 – 3:15 p.m.
Attendees: Snow, Miller, Brown, T Jones, P Jones, Sims
Location: Room 201
Objectives: Prepare for Technical Assistant
Visit (TAV)
Data Needed: HSTW
Assessment, Report Card
Purpose/Topics of Discussion:
Actions Taken by Whom/When
1) Complete TAV Goal 3 Students Actively
Engaged
Snow/Miller by 10/8/09
2) Review district, school and HSTW site
action plan for alignment to Goal 3
Brown/TJones by 10/8/09
3) Discuss evidence needed from teachers
for data notebook
P Jones/Sims by 10/8/09
4) Review next steps and set agenda for the
next meeting
Snow by 10/1/09
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Adult Actions Produce
Student Performance
Goal
A broad
statement that
specifies a
desired change
Strategy
Key approaches
the district will
implement
Action Steps
Specific steps to
operationalize a
strategy
Tasks
A list of
activities to
complete an
action
Adult Implementation and Student Performance Indicators
Gauge/measurement to determine if the strategy is met
and the overall impact of the strategy.
Baseline Measure - Establishes a starting point.
Progress Measures - Assess short-term measures of change.
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How do we communicate?
• Internal ILT/stakeholders
– Minutes
– Agendas
– Data Walls
• External stakeholders
– Newsletter
– School Web site
– School TV Channel
– Stakeholder Meeting
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Data Walls
“The Science Fair for Grownups”
Data
State and
district
Strategies
Actions of the
adults
Analysis
Why are we
getting the
results we
are?
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Month-to-Month Focus
• Simple bar graphs
• Can be student
generated
• Updated frequently
• Data from various
sources
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How do we communicate?
• Internal ILT/stakeholders
– Minutes
– Agendas
• External stakeholders
– Newsletter
– School Web site
– School TV Channel
– Stakeholder Meeting
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How to sustain ILTs?
Steps to sustain the work of ILT’s while
implementing a continuous school
improvement :
 How will you implement each step?
 When will it happen?
 Who is responsible?
 What resources will you need?
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The Purpose of Monitoring the Plan Is
Continuous Improvement
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Recommended Resources
• Publication:
– Developing Effective Leadership Teams – Implementing the
High Schools That Work School Improvement Design
www.sreb.org/programs/hstw/publications/site-guides/
SiteDevelopmentGuide2.asp
• Websites:
– Golden & Gall. The complete toolkit for building high
performance work teams. Eric Clearinghouse on Educational
Management
https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/1794/
3295/toolkit.pdf
– Southern Regional Education Board www.sreb.org
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available for developing effective leadership
teams?
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Contact Information
If you have questions or would like to learn more
about developing effective leadership teams,
please contact:
Don Washburn, Presenter
• [email protected]
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