Wolf River Leadership

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April 6, 2011Brad Neuenswander, Deputy CommissionerKansas State Department of Education

Kansas State Department of Educationwww.ksde.org

Base State Aid Per Pupil

2010-11 2011-12

Governor 3,937 3,780

Senate 3,937 3,786

House 3,937 3,762

Reduction $50,000,000 $99-115,000,000


2009-10 School YearSTATE AID REDUCTIONS/UNDERFUNDING

State Aid Reduction

General State AidBSAPP $4,400 to $4,012 $ 241,288,471

Supplemental General State Aid 37,816,280

Capital Outlay 25,600,000

Professional Development 1,750,000

Teacher Mentoring 200,000

Discretionary Grants 85,000

National Board Certification 240,000

Special Education 4,000,000

TOTAL $ 310,979,751


General Fund State Aid

$4,400 - $4,012 = $388 reduction to BSAPP-OR –

$241,288,000$4,012 - $3,780 = $232 reduction to BSAPP

-OR –$154,512,000

$75 reduction in 2010-11 and $157 reduction in 2011-12


Base State Aid Per PupilSchool Year BSAPP

1992-93 3,600

1993-94 3,600

1994-95 3,600

1995-96 3,626

1996-97 3,648

1997-98 3,670

1998-99 3,720

1999-00 3,770

2000-01 3,820


Base State Aid Per PupilSchool Year BSAPP

2001-02 3,8702002-03 3,8632003-04 3,8632004-05 3,8632005-06 4,257*2006-07 4,3162007-08 4,3742008-09 4,4002009-10 4,012


Base State Aid Per Pupil

* Approximately $244 of the increase was a result of raising the BSAPP and lowering the enrollment weighting which resulted in no increased spending authority.

$ 3,780 - $244 = $3,536 (below the 1992 level for BSAPP)


Special Education

• For 2010-11, an increase in state aid of $21.2 million in order to meet Federal Maintenance of Effort laws.

• For 2011-12, an increase of $60 million in state aid to replace a loss of $56 million of ARRA funds.


Cash Balances: Why are they needed?

• Bond & Interest: you have to have the cash in the bank on July 1 to make your Fall payments.

• Capital Outlay: preparing for large purchases and projects.

• Special Education: schools do not receive their first state aid payment until October 15, so you have to survive 4 months with your balance.

• Food Service: funded by students and federal free/reduced lunch program, so you have to survive up to 3 months with your balance.


If your only tool is a hammer, If your only tool is a hammer, everything looks like nails.everything looks like nails.


Legislative Progress

• HB 2269: Local Foundation. Does nothing but change the formula.

• SB 11: Lowers the transportation 10 mile Rule to 2.5 miles.

• Suitability: Re-defines what a suitable education is.


A Crisis does not necessarily build Character,

but it certainly does reveal it.


Keeping Your Focus


People are not self-centered on purpose; it’s just in the

nature of humans to think of their own interests first.

It takes training and intentions to place others first.


Agency Initiatives• Multi Tier System of Supports (MTSS)• Common Core Standards• Re-write Quality Performance Accreditation (QPA)• Reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary

Education Act (ESEA), known as NCLB• Develop a Growth Model at State, District, School

and Student level.• Sunflower Literacy Project• Provide Technical Assistance to Schools • Collaborative Workspace


A great company is much more likely to die of indigestion from

too much opportunity than starvation from too little. The

challenge becomes not opportunity creation, but

opportunity selection.


“If you’ve taught it five times the same way and they still don’t get it,

who’s not learning?”


Questions?

• Does your School Board, as a whole, have a personality?

• Does your School District have a personality?• What is the culture/atmosphere of your

district?


Cultural Leaders

Whether or not leaders are perceptive enough to recognize it, organizations have cultures, which take root, grow, evolve, and silently control the attitudes and behaviors of organizational members even when, and perhaps especially when, no one pays them any special attention. - William Spady


Things Everybody Needs to Understand About

People:1. Everybody Wants to be Somebody – There isn’t a

person in the world who doesn’t have the desire to be someone, to have significance. Even the least ambitious and unassuming person wants to be regarded highly by others.

Things Everyone Needs to Understand About People:


2. Nobody Cares How Much You Know Until He Knows How Much You Care – The moment that people know that you care about them, the way they feel about you changes. Showing others that you care isn’t always easy. Your greatest times and fondest memories will come because of people, but so will your more difficult, hurting and tragic times. People are your greatest assets and your greatest liabilities. The challenge is to keep caring about them no matter what.


If you have to ask the question, “Why should we try to make it great? Isn’t success enough?” then you’re probably engaged in the wrong line of work.

Good to Great – Jim Collins

Question: “What work makes you feel compelled to try to

create greatness?”


Technical vs. CulturalToo often, the technical side of leadership eclipses available time and willingness for its much-needed cultural aspects. As a result schools become sterile, incapable of touching the hearts of students and teachers, or securing the trust and confidence of parents and local residents. - Terrance Deal, Shaping School Culture


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The Future of Schools

• Students deserve the best schools we can give them – schools full of heart, soul, and ample opportunities to learn and grow.

• Reforms that bring new technologies or higher standards won’t succeed without being embedded in supportive, spirit-filled cultures. Schools won’t become what students deserve until cultural patterns and ways are shaped to support learning.


“The only thing worse than training someone and losing

them is not training them and keeping them.”


Pathways to Successful Culture

• The way leaders spend their time, what they attend to, and how they direct their efforts all serve to communicate the school’s values and model its principles.

• One element of the school’s purpose is to make school a place that is fun and offers children special chances to enrich their lives.


Leaders Encourage Others

The reality is that difficulties seldom defeat people; lack of

faith in themselves usually does it.


Always remember that your goal is not to get people to think more highly of you. It’s to get them to think more highly of themselves. Have faith in them, and they will begin to do exactly that.


If You Panic, They all Panic


A highly effective school leader can have a dramatic influence on the overall academic achievement of

students.

Marzano, Waters, & McNulty, 2005


Today’s leaders are expected to involve and empower their people,

to be visible to their employees and constituents, to act with

integrity, and to be accountable for their organization’s performance

and results. -William Spady


True Leadership• “Doing the right thing isn’t always easy – in fact

sometimes it’s real hard – but just remember that doing the right thing is always right.”

• “Everything you do matters because your team is watching… and depending on you to do the right thing.”

• “Guard your integrity as if it’s your most precious leadership possession, because that is what it is.”

• “You are the Chief Bucket-Filler, and the best way to fill buckets is with excellent communication.”

• MTSS will not be successful without Leadership, and a culture to support it.


“Brick walls were not built to stop us, they were built to see how

determined we are.”-Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture


Why it Matters!!A poor quality product or service can be recycled, but a young person who does not learn or who drops out is hard to salvage-

a lost treasure.


Make it Enjoyable


• Laboratory Rat #1: Placed in a jar of water in total darkness to see how long it would swim for survival. Lasted a little more than 3 minutes.

• Laboratory Rat #2: Placed in the same jar of water with just a ray of light, and it kept swimming for over thirty-six hours.

• Because the rat could see, it continued to have hope.

A Ray of Light


FinalQuestions

&Closing

Comments


Do You Have Diamonds?


“We all live under the same sky, but we don’t all have the same horizon.”

Make it your goal to help others see beyond today and their current

circumstances and dream big dreams.

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