Workshop+3

“Learning to lead Effective Schools”  //Power Bases – // //Influencing Tactics – // //Ignored behaviour – //  //Having a common goal with a core focus sticking to a time limit with opportunities to address for the following up next meeting and knowledge of what is being discussed/ shared – being able to allow for the priorities to shift and allow for the best approach to manage this. //  **//Qualities of effective leaders - Shared Understandings: //** Common Knowledge Be aware of Communication Core focus Time – Protocols – Rules of engagement Be aware of Monopolisers Sharing Priorities – flexibility in leaderships Flexibility in the style of leadership is crucial Constructive – positive – passionate Be Aware of Negatives <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Ownership Be Aware of Personal Agendas <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Tactic - Acknowledgment of views <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Being under pressure – using a time bomb list as many qualities of a leader. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Organisation Supportive Positive Confident <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Friendliness Strategic Encouraging Learner <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Approachable Calm Knowledgeable Purposeful <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Respectful Communication Shared/Team work oriented <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> It is more important to remember that the focus is always – student centred and not teacher centred //** **//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Leadership - always remember the word //****//<span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">learning //****//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> – as a leader you’re a learner always learning. //** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Do not prejudge people when describing difficult people – it’s the behaviour that is the issue. This document is a guide to see a trend over a period of time. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">What are some of the strategies to address this?: establishing a protocol. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Separating the emotion behind the challenged behaviour and maintain calm. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Focus on the behaviour. – How do you make the person aware of it when they are not and don’t wish to be? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">How do we not offend when we still have to work with that person the next day? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Finding the balance between being honest and being careful? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Communication that leadership team know and that we can move on. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">When protocols are established – we need to discuss what happens when protocols are broken? What happens when someone doesn’t adhere to the protocol what do you do?? – Ideas to deal with this: talk about the group to respond to the individual, it is agreed that a nominated person would say at every meeting that they would say – 2 positives things that happened in the meeting and two negative things that happened with a reminder of the behaviour and not a personal attack. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Don’t go down to the swamp – watch the conservatives and monitor the high achievers. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">How do we encourage staff to attend meetings when there is a culture of ‘complaint’ – look at the meeting structure, establishing protocol and reminding expectation //e.g.: local agreement says...// //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">SCHOOL MUST HAVE CLEAR SHARED BELIEFS – Goals! – Now that this is in place – how do we achieve this? – Take a big breath and take time. //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Strong organisation is the by product –Daniel Goleman says that you cannot have the 4th key – Social Skills unless you have all other 3 in place. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">‘The capacity for recognising our own feelings and those of others, for motivating ourselves, and for managing emotions well in ourselves, and in our relationships’ <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Buying time to think about your response – let me have some time to think about this? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">3 styles of negotiation: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Finding the equilibrium – putting the positives to one side and the negatives to the other and find a balance. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">If someone comes in with an idea / complaint – then also bring in a solution. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Communication – conversations– don’t finish off other peoples conversations. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Conversations should be curious: the more that you invite to tell you more about it allows for more invitation to bring it out more by curious conversations - **//instead of saying why? Say – tell me more about it?//** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Key thing //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">: people observe classes but make NO JUDGEMENTS. //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Definition //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">: “The rounds process is an explicit practice that is designed to bring discussions of instruction directly into the process of school improvement. By //practice//, we mean something quite specific. We mean a set of protocols and processes for observing, analysing, discussing, and understanding instruction that can be used to improve student learning at scale.” (Elmore et al 2009) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Situational – how you see things in terms of competencies and capabilities. – refer to the Hersey- Blanchard Model // //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Transformational leadership – using seven factors related to this model. // //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Post – transformational // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">What does Professionalism look like in a school with the 3 leadership models?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Leaders in the making – 2009 – September 3rd **
 * //<span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Meeting Observations: //**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">community meetings have two leading teachers
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">developing protocols
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">other people pushing their own agendas – managing this by focusing back on developing a protocol
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">general staff meeting – rotating chair person
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">issues based around what groups they participate in – PLT unit / The Pontificator / time user
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">sometimes time management can impede on other staff agendas
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">underhand behaviour – such as friendship groups, hidden agendas
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">not expertise to the knowledge of what is being discussed
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Activity: //**
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">The structure of a meeting can shift – flexibility in leaders is important – depending on what is trying to be achieved.
 * //<span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Reflective Leadership: //**
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Difficult Situations and Behaviours: //**
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">A culture of complaining: //**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Leadership modelling
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">professionalism
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Accountability
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Organised agenda
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Looking at the structures
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Goals – focus on children – how can we improve things
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Having a formal meetings scheduled is also important - and decide not to have it.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Cultures take time.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Staff Morale – Put in staff book – DFM day – ‘Day for Me’ – lighter load day.
 * //<span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Emotional Intelligence: //**
 * 1) **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Self Awareness: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> To be emotionally self aware – do you know your boiling points and exploding points? Know where you’re at, at that point in time. Aware of ourselves. Accurately assess ourselves. Do I like myself?
 * 2) **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Social Awareness **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">: Do we have empathy? Organisational awareness – understanding that organisational structure of the place of where you are at. Having a service focus.
 * 3) **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Self Management: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> Do we have self control. Are we trustworthy. Are we adaptable. Are we conscientious. Do we have a high achievement focus. Do we show initiative. Adaptable.
 * 4) **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Social Skills: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> Developing others. Leadership. Influencer. Strong communication skills. Being able to change. Cope with change and Mange with change. Managing conflict. Teamwork. Building bonds, connections, networks.
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Emotional Intelligence and Principled Negotiations: //**
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Soft position – easy out – more appealing position
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Hard Position – sometimes this is a way to go – but in general to have a negotiated position
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Principled position – negotiated – you may need to buy time. – with this you always get more background information about the issue at hand.
 * //<span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Contemporary leadership models: //**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Effective and ineffective delegator: **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Make sure you choose the right person for the right job.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Encourages always
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Reflection always helps us to determine which way we will move next.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Leadership styles **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">3 in particular that we use: **
 * 1) **//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Distributive //**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> – sharing responsibilities – empowering other people in an organisation/team to share the leadership to be accountable and responsible with what they are doing – always been given a role that your empowered with trust and there is accountability.(Pages 161 – 162 of Developing Leadership Book.)
 * 2) **//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Transformational //**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> – bringing about change in the way we look at an organisation. – Developing vision and goals, individual support, culture, structure, performance and expectation, intellectual stimulation – professional development.(Pages 142 – 143 of Developing Leadership Book.)
 * 3) **//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Instructional //**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> – using learning walks with protocols, analysing performance and what is good practice, to also find some common language.
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Other Leadership styles: //**
 * //<span style="color: #cc3399; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Reflections: //**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">How did the team or staff move?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">What did the leader do to influence the staff?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">What did the leader not do?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Why did the leader act the way they did?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">What would you try to change?
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Wondering //**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">: