Multi-Classroom Leadership The Next 90 Days: Maintaining a Successful Team To copy or adapt this material, see OpportunityCulture.org/terms-of-use

Fresh-Thinking Moment Fresh-Thinking Moment: Things that really jump out at you to improve the rest of the year – Nagging problems to address – New approaches you can try – New approaches you can help your team try 5 minutes End ©2015 Public Impact OpportunityCulture.org 2

3 Learning Objectives ©2015 Public Impact OpportunityCulture.org Review the goals you’ve set for yourself and your team. Create new short-term goals aligned with the areas of highest-leverage need that will help you reach your year-end goals. Update your plan for implementing and communicating your revised goals.

Revising a 90-Day Plan Review the initial 90-day or first-semester plan. Use the most up-to-date data to plan for success. More accurately identify high-leverage goals. Reset the leadership approach to the team and individual teachers. ©2015 Public Impact OpportunityCulture.org 4

Remember Me? ©2015 Public Impact OpportunityCulture.org 5

Steps to Maintaining a Successful Team 1. Maintain a sense of urgency. 2. Keep the team together. 3. Refine the change vision and strategy. 4. Continue to communicate for understanding and buy-in. 5. Ensure others feel empowered to act. 6. Continue producing short-term wins. 7. Don’t let up. 8. Build on the culture. Source: Adapted from Our Iceberg Is Melting: Changing and Succeeding Under Any Conditions by John Kotter ©2015 Public Impact OpportunityCulture.org 6

7 90-Day Plan Tool ©2015 Public Impact OpportunityCulture.org

What are current levels of student performance? Have you met your short-term student learning goals, and are you on track to meet your year-end goals? What has or has not happened to influence current student performance? Are there any data patterns or trends? What are the areas of greatest need for the next 90 days? – Grades/subjects/classrooms – Particular student groups Looking at Interim Student Data ©2015 Public Impact OpportunityCulture.org 8

What surprised you in your reflections on the data? Are there conditions for learning or instructional practices that need to improve to improve student learning? Any new thoughts from your fresh thinking? What kind of work with your team teachers will you prioritize going forward? Why are your prioritizing these areas? What do you identify as the biggest challenges or obstacles? What’s the strongest piece of evidence that you have that your coaching resulted in changes in a teacher’s practice that led to changes in student learning? Reflecting on the Team Experience ©2015 Public Impact OpportunityCulture.org 9

10 SMART Goals ©2015 Public Impact OpportunityCulture.org Specific and strategic Measurable Action-oriented Realistic or Robust Timed and tracked 3 Goal Areas: 1.Student outcomes 2.Conditions for learning 3.Instructional practices Plus: Your professional growth and each team teacher’s growth needed to achieve the goals in each of those areas.

11 Work Time ©2015 Public Impact OpportunityCulture.org The Next 90 Days: Develop a Midyear Plan 20 minutes End

12 Accountability ©2015 Public Impact OpportunityCulture.org How will you be accountable for the goals? How will you check in on your progress?

What’s the most important thing that you’re taking away from this midyear review that you’d like to share with others? Reflection ©2015 Public Impact OpportunityCulture.org 13