Assistant/Associate Principals’ & Deans’ Statewide Mentoring Meeting Tuesday, January 19, 2016

 Grow your professional network;  Gain insight from practicing principals regarding teacher leadership, teacher evaluation, and student interviews;  Consider ideas and strategies to improve your leadership life fit;  Share with colleagues a leadership success story; and  Discuss pertinent legal issues. Outcomes:

Links  Resources : 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

1.Leveraging Teacher Leaders Jeremy Hissem, Cardinal 2.Navigating Teacher Evaluation Katie Ferguson, Waukee 3.Student Discipline Tim Carver, Urbandale Round Table Rotations

Lunch ! Grow your professional network— choose a new table!

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…

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

Break ! Grow your professional network— choose a new table!

Legal Update and Scenarios Matt Carver, SAI

Upcoming learning opportunities: Evaluation: Final Thoughts & Evaluation