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Greenwood Middle School Simulation
“Only a change in practice produces
a genuine change in norms and
values. Or, to put it more crudely,
grab people by their practice and
their hearts and minds will follow.”
--Richard Elmore
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Pennsylvania Inspired Leadership
Greenwood Middle School Simulation
Regional Host: Mike Young
Facilitators: Cindy Burkhart and Jacques Gibble
v3 Mar 2014
Leadership in Pennsylvania
The leader must be…
Student-centered
Standards-Based
Data-Informed and
Future-focused
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PA CORE Standards
The leader …
has the knowledge and skills to think and
plan strategically, creating an organizational
vision around personalized student
success.
is grounded in standards-based systems
theory and design and is able to transfer that
knowledge to his/her job as the architect of
standards-based reform in the school.
knows how to access and use appropriate data
to inform decision-making at all levels of the
system.
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Corollary Standards
The Leader…
 creates a culture of teaching and learning with an emphasis
on learning.
 manages resources for effective results.
 collaborates, communicates, engages, and empowers
others inside and outside of the organization to pursue
excellence in learning.
 operates in a fair and equitable manner with personal and
professional dignity.
 advocates for children and public education in the larger
political, social, economic, legal, and cultural context.
 supports professional growth of self and others through
practice and inquiry.
Where we are in the Program
Understanding
what needs to
change
Learning how
to change it
Unit 13 Final Simulation
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What is educational leadership?
The
guidance,
direction
and
The guidance, direction and
support
of
sustained
support of sustained
instructional
improvement
instructional improvement
leading
to
higher
student
leading to higher student
achievement
achievement
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Today’s Agenda
Thinking processes
Course Themes
Key Concepts and Ideas
Getting the ‘skinny’ on Greenwood
Simulation
Debrief
Visionary
Thinking
Strategic
Thinking
Systemic
Thinking
Change Agent
Thinking
Ethical
Thinking
Instructional
Thinking
Review 1
Courses
and
Big Ideas
Review 2
Thinking
Motifs
and Big
Ideas
Review 3
Big Ideas
integrated
across
courses and
motifs
Getting the ‘skinny’ on Greenwood
1 Introduction to Facilities
2 Facilities to Student Progress
3 Student Progress to School Vision
4 Vision to School Organization
5 School Organization to Key Players
6 Key Players to Your Task
What are the implications of these facts as you
take on the role of principal at Greenwood
Middle School?
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Your Tasks as Principal :
is to lead the improvement of instructional practice and
to achieve higher student performance during the next
two years.
is to have 55 percent of the students proficient in
Reading and 50 percent in Math at each grade by the
end of next year, and then achieving ongoing
improvement thereafter.
is to begin with the data.
is to take your time, and dig beneath each of the
decisions, the feedback, and the consequences
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Answer Key Log for Discussion
Jan and Bill
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Work with 8, this will allow
us to give extra help to kids
in grade 9 getting ready for
Keystones
Greenwood Middle School Simulation
Alone
Data
Instructional Leadership
Teams
Leadership for
ELA
Vision
Pair
Coherence
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Session:
What are the major challenges facing
this school and its principal in
attempting to improve instruction and
in gaining high achievement for all
students?
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Greenwood Middle School Simulation
“Only a change in practice produces
a genuine change in norms and
values. Or, to put it more crudely,
grab people by their practice and
their hearts and minds will follow.”
--Richard Elmore
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Welcome
Back,
NISLeers!
2014
2017
No 1 ELA
2 Math
No 3 Just, Fair and Caring
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Your ILI Then- ILI Now
Area
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Vision
Systems/Data
Effective instruction
Alignment and Coherence
Learning
Communities/Teams
Sustaining Improvement
David Marsh on Challenges
What are the major challenges facing the
school and its principal in attempting
to improve instruction and in gaining
high achievement for all students?
What is the biggest problem and what
strategies could they implement to
make the changes one student at time?
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