MS/HS Principals’ Statewide Mentoring Meeting Thursday, January 28, 2016
Grow your professional network; Consider ideas and strategies to improve your leadership life fit; Share with colleagues a leadership success story; Discuss pertinent legal issues; Engage in collaborative conversations regarding an issue of the leader’s choice; and Gain insight from practicing principals regarding effective evaluation practices. Outcomes:
Links Resources : principal-mentoring.cfm Evaluation : Mentoring Matters: induction.cfm
Name School/District What’s your “one thing” (your focus either personally or professionally) this semester? Welcome!!
How do you foster positivity and optimism during this time of year?” Post ideas and suggestions: Grounding Activity
Leadership-life Fit Dana Schon, SAI
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…
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 TE TE
Break ! Grow your professional network— choose a new table!
Learning Community: Leadership Success Analysis
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 success. 5 MINUTES
Protocol Group asks clarifying questions about the details of the success. 2 MINUTES
Protocol Group talks with each other about the success story and offers additional analysis about what made this so successful while the presenter listens and takes notes: What did we hear? What didn’t we hear that might be relevant to the success? What about the environment/context contributed to the success? What leadership behaviors were critical to the success? What questions does the success story raise for us? What do we think about the success? What have we done in similar situations? 5 MINUTES
Protocol Presenter reflects on what he/she heard and on what he/she is now thinking, sharing with the group anything that particularly resonated during the consultancy. How can what we have learned apply to our own leadership? 2 MINUTES Rotate to second presenter. Rotate
Legal Lens Matt Carver, SAI
Lunch ! Grow your professional network— choose a new table!
1.XXX (Back--NE corner) 2.XXX (Back Middle) 3.XXX (Back--SE corner) 4.XXX (Front – NW corner) 5.XXX(Front – SW corner) 6.XXX (Work Room) 7.XXX (Small Conference 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.
Josh Manning, Pella Jody Ratigan, Norwalk Nathan Wear, Solon Discussion Panel: Teacher Walk throughs and Evaluation
Please provide an overview of your evaluation process. What influence/impact do walk-through data have on your evaluations? Knowing that teacher leaders do not have a role in evaluation, how do you engage their support when you know a teacher would benefit? How do you initiate a coaching conversation? How is your conversation different with a “high flying” teacher as compared to a teacher who may need to improve? How do you make evaluation meaningful rather than a compliance check-off? Discussion Panel: Teacher Walk throughs and Evaluation
Upcoming learning opportunities: Evaluation: Final Thoughts & Evaluation