1. Superintendents’ Statewide Mentoring Meeting Thursday, January 21, 2016

2.  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:

3. Links  Resources : http://www.sai-iowa.org/jan16-superintendent- mentoring.cfm  Evaluation : http://bit.ly/Jan2016SuptEval  Mentoring Matters: http://www.sai-iowa.org/mentoring-and- induction.cfm

4.  Name  School/District Welcome!!

5.  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

6. Leadership-life Fit Dana Schon, SAI

7. What is problematic about the word balance in terms of work-life balance? T-P-S

8. Time to Reflect

9. We do not learn from experience… we learn from reflecting on experience. ~John Dewey

10. Leadership-life Fit-Self Assessment

11.  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?

12.  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%

13. Getting Started…

14.  Ottie Maxey, Ballard  Darwin Lehmann, Forest City Navigating Negotiations: Tales from Two Districts

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16. BREAK ! Grow your professional network— choose a new table!

17. Legal Updates Matt Carver, SAI

18. Setting the Stage for IGNITE What issues/concerns would you like to process with your colleagues? 2 MINUTES

19. 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 http://padlet.com/dschon/Supt Mentoring http://padlet.com/dschon/Supt Mentoring

20. LUNCH !

21. 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

22. 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.

23. Leading for the Long Term

24. 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

25. 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

26. 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

27. 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

28. Upcoming learning opportunities: http://www.sai-iowa.org/events.cfm Evaluation: http://bit.ly/Jan2016SuptEval Final Thoughts & Evaluation