Transcript Principal practices: Planning for instructional leadership

Dave Sechler
[email protected]
PRIMARY AUDIENCE
•Principals – to create* the plan
•SAMs – to help implement the plan
TAKE-AWAYs
•School-wide Expectations outline
•Tools & Templates
Feel free to adopt, adapt, ignore…
NSIP CONFERENCE CONNECTIONS
KIM MARSHALL
WILL BOWEN
•Big Rocks
•Weekly staff memo
•Clear expectations
•“No weeds in my garden.”
INTRODUCTIONS
•Presenter: Dave Sechler
•Participants
•Thought Partners
The REAL work of the SAM project
“SAM is a complex change process
disguised as a simple idea.”
Jody Spiro
Wallace Foundation
3 PRECEPTS:
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BEST PRACTICE: ASSESSMENT
Would you expect teachers to assess
their students without first telling
students what they were going to be
expected to know or be able to do?
BEST PRACTICE: ASSESSMENT
Be crystal clear about your
expectations for staff.
GOAL: School-Wide Expectations
•“Living” document
•Short: 1-3 pp.
•Plan / Prepare before school year begins
•Execute / Implement during school year
SCHOOL-WIDE EXPECTATIONS – GOALS
•Common beliefs / understandings
•What do you expect teachers
and/or students to know or be
able to do?
SCHOOL-WIDE EXPECTATIONS – PARTS
•Introductory Statement
•Expectations
•Concluding remarks
SCHOOL-WIDE EXPECTATIONS – STYLE
•Sense of connection
•Build on what you’ve done
•Past work doesn’t get lost
•Sense of direction
•Forward – always forward
SCHOOL-WIDE EXPECTATIONS – FLOW
•Past
•How you got to where you are now
•“The past is prologue”
SCHOOL-WIDE EXPECTATIONS – FLOW
•Present
•Next steps (connection)
•What I/we expect to see
•What I/we will use to evaluate you
SCHOOL-WIDE EXPECTATIONS – FLOW
•Conclusion
•Wrap it up
•Bring it home
SCHOOL-WIDE EXPECTATIONS – WRITE
•Past
•How you got to where you are now
•“The past is prologue”
•5 minutes
THOUGHT PARTNERS
•Share with your thought partners:
•Where you are now
•How you got there
•2 minutes or less, then switch
SCHOOL-WIDE EXPECTATIONS – WRITE
BE
•Present
•Next steps (connection) SPECIFIC
!!!
•What I/we expect to see
•What I/we will use to evaluate you
•10 minutes
THOUGHT PARTNERS
•Share with your thought partners
•Thought Partners – prepare for
“critical friends” critique
•5 minutes per team
SCHOOL-WIDE EXPECTATIONS – WRITE
•Conclusion
•Wrap it up
•Bring it home
THOUGHT PARTNERS
•Share with your thought partners:
•How did you wrap it up?
•How did you “bring it home”?
•2 minutes or less
SCHOOL-WIDE EXPECTATIONS
•Sample
SCHOOL-WIDE EXPECTATIONS
•Q & A
SCHOOL-WIDE EXPECTATIONS
•Revisions
TOOLS
•Important Dates List
•Monday Morning Mail
•Parent/Community newsletters
TOOLS – MAKING THEM EFFECTIVE
•Don’t enable your staff’s lazy habits.
•Don’t fall for answering the easy questions.
•“If it’s important enough for me to write,
it’s important enough for you to read.”
SCHOOL-WIDE EXPECTATIONS
•Q & A