Superintendents’ Statewide Mentoring Meeting Thursday, January 21, 2016
Grow your professional network; Reflect on efforts to ensure continued understanding of shared expectations between the board and you; Identify practices to support a better leadership-life fit; Collaborate around approaches to negotiations; Discuss pertinent legal issues; Engage with colleagues around topic/s of interest and priority; and Access the expertise of colleagues regarding strategies, practices, and approaches for navigating the issues you face. Outcomes:
Links Resources : mentoring.cfm Evaluation : Mentoring Matters: induction.cfm
Name School/District Welcome!!
How have you communicated progress toward your goals and the board’s priorities with appropriate stakeholders? How have you gathered informal feedback from your board regarding your performance? How do you know you and the board still share the same set of expectations for the focus of your leadership? Grounding Activity
Leadership-life Fit Dana Schon, SAI
What is problematic about the word balance in terms of work-life balance? T-P-S
Time to Reflect
We do not learn from experience… we learn from reflecting on experience. ~John Dewey
Leadership-life Fit-Self Assessment
Circle your lowest scores. How might addressing these attributes of well-being and wisdom impact your overall stress level? Process in your mentor-mentee partnership. Now What?
It’s the small changes that lead to significant impact. “Keystone habits start a process that, over time, transform everything.” ~Duhigg, The Power of Habit The Amalgamation of 1%
Getting Started…
Ottie Maxey, Ballard Darwin Lehmann, Forest City Navigating Negotiations: Tales from Two Districts
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BREAK ! Grow your professional network— choose a new table!
Legal Updates Matt Carver, SAI
Setting the Stage for IGNITE What issues/concerns would you like to process with your colleagues? 2 MINUTES
Top 3 Topics from your Table Share your list with your table team— not a conversation, just the list. Come to consensus around your table’s top 3-4 topics and post at Mentoring Mentoring
LUNCH !
1.Topic 1 (Small Conference Room) 2.Topic 2 (Middle of Large Room) 3.Topic 3 (West End of Large Room) 4.Topic 4 (East End of Large Room) 5.Topic 5 (Work Room) IGNITE
IGNITE Conversations Brainstorm questions you have around your prioritized topic. Move to the area where the conversation will occur. Person who traveled the farthest begins the conversation by posing a question or comment from his/her list.
Leading for the Long Term
1.What is the main issue facing your district over the next 6 months? One year? 2.What ideas have you considered/steps you have taken to address that issue? 2 minutes 2-minute Quick Writes
Protocol Leader with a birthday closest to today selects first presenter. Timekeeper/facilitator will be the person to the left of the presenter. Presenter describes the main issue he/she faces in the next 6 months/year. 3 MINUTES
Protocol Group processes presenter’s issue/s while presenter is silent observer—jotting notes and reflecting on the comments of the group. What did we hear? What didn’t we hear that might be relevant to the issue? What leadership behaviors will be critical to this issue? What questions does the issue raise for us? What have we done in similar situations? 5 MINUTES
Protocol Presenter joins in conversation by reflecting on what he/she heard, sharing with the group anything that particularly resonated during the consultancy and seeking any additional clarification. 4 MINUTES Rotate to second presenter. Rotate
Upcoming learning opportunities: Evaluation: Final Thoughts & Evaluation