DLT RetreatSeptember 20, 2012

District Level Leaders

Please spread out among school groups

to facilitate "mixed group"

conversations!!!

Do you have the admin social next Monday afternoon on your calendar?? 3:30 - 6pm at

Carbones!!

Learning communities: Where improvement is driven by the

commitment to improving students' learning, well-being, and

achievement; where the process of improvement is heavily informed by

professional learning and inquiry into students' learning and into

effective principles of teaching and learning in general; and where any problems are addressed through organizational learning in which

everyone in the organization learns their way out of the problems

instead of jumping for off-the-shelf, quick-fix solutions. p 128

Leading to Learn & Learning to Lead

Form a TRIAD of mixed job responsibilities. Share your responses to the following questions:

• How do you distribute your own time and energy across Quadrants I and II behaviors?

• How do you recognize and stop the drift into Quadrant III behaviors?

• What do you do when

you notice a fellow leader drifting into Quadrant III behaviors?

At your tables:

• Discuss where your CTs currently fall into place on the PLC Flow diagram.

• How does this lens inform your planning work?

• How will you address the needs of teams as they move around on this framework?

"To keep your teams at a level of optimal performance, you must achieve

the proper balance between their current knowledge and skill level and

the level of complexity for the new task actions or challenges." p 138

Leadership Metacognition

What commitments can and will you make to this team about how you will lead in ISD 191 this year?

My Own Behaviors and Thinking

(When no one is looking)

My Leadership of Others(How I lead and direct others)

60 Second LectureJoin 2 - 3 schools into table groups, use the "60 Second Lecture" protocol to share your response to the following questions:

• How did you share the Strategic Roadmap with your staff or dept this fall?

• What were some of the responses/reactions?

Connecting the Dots...

Discuss and identify our next steps to develop:

• Direct alignment of Improvement Plans, Vision Cards, and Roadmap

• Common formative and summative assessments for Vision Cards that also serve as evidence for Improvement Plans

• District-wide understanding of the direction, the purposes, and the pieces

"A rock-solid school vision acts as a constraint on actions that are inconsistent with it. It

is designed to unleash and then focus the energies of the school in a common direction for the greater good of student and adult learning. Although you need to understand your

personal vision well, your ultimate goal is to merge the

personal visions of all those in your sphere of influence into a single clear, concrete message about which adult actions will

move your school closer to your desired future." Kanold, p 17

As we roll forward with a district vision, what do you see as our greatest challenge? How can we use the power of collaboration and

partnership to overcome it?