1. Learning Teaching and Family Support Retreat April 24, 2013 11:00 am – 3:00 pm Wiki site http://ltfsleadership.wikispaces.com http://ltfsleadership.wikispaces.com

2. Learning organizations are organizations where people continually expand their capacity to create the results they truly desire, where new and expansive patterns of thinking are nurtured, where collective aspiration is set free, and where people are continually learning how to learn together. In essence, leaders are people who ‘walk ahead,” people genuinely committed to deep change, in themselves and in their organizations. - Peter Senge

3. AGENDA  Welcome and Outcomes  Introductions  HR Survey Reflections  LTFS: Cradle to Career  LUNCH  Whole Child  E & I Communication Tools & RET  Problems of Practice & Systems Tool Application  Reflections & Next Steps

4. Outcomes for today  Reflect on our leadership successes  Further our leadership around eliminating the gap  Practice applying tools to problems of practice  Connect and network with colleagues

5. In order to accomplish our goals….. Principles & Anti-Racist MCO Our established values- based framework. We hold each other accountable to sustaining these Principles to meet the Agency END. Leadership Profile  Ethical  Visionary  Strategic  Creative  Relational  Culturally Competent  Communicative We solicit, provide and use regular feedback and communication in every direction.

6. Vs. Tools in our Toolbox

7. Learning Focus  PSLA Sessions  Leadership Challenge  White Silence  Race Equity Tool  Whole Child: Engagement  Cultural Competency: Intercultural Dialogue  January Retreat  Systems-thinking tools

8. Expectations as LTFS Leaders  Program/Department Leadership, Agency Workgroups & Race to the Top  Principles that Guide our Culture  Leadership Challenge  White Silence  Race Equity Tool  Whole Child: Engagement (BU I LD)  Cultural Competency: Intercultural Dialogue(BUIL D )  Systems-thinking tools

9. Shift in Practice….  General ENDS  Program Outcomes  Various Program Strategies  Isolated Impacts  Eliminate the Gap  Measures of Progress (MOPS) with Aligned Program Measures  Foundational & Targeted Strategies with Aligned Program Strategies  Collective Impact

11. LUNCH

12. Challenge the Process "Our agency has a strong tradition of innovation and risk-taking and I'd like to honor those staff members who embrace these actions and encourage others to do so," said Superintendent John Welch. "These are clearly values illustrated in our Principles that Guide Our Culture by viewing risk-taking as an opportunity to learn and our Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership by challenging the process."

13. BU I LD: WHOLE CHILD HOMEWORK QUESTION: “What have you done to ensure a Whole Child approach, focusing on ENGAGEMENT? What else can be done? What is the first “next step” needed to deepen the work?”

14. BUIL D :  RET  Intercultural Dialogue Tools  Work Force Equity  Caucusing  Diversity Coaches  WPC  Community Engagement

15. RACE EQUITY TOOL 1.Educate on racial issues and raises racial consciousness. 2.Promote racially inclusive collaboration and engagement. 3.Assess community conditions and set goals for affecting the desired community impact. 4.Expand opportunity and access for individuals. 5.Affect systemic change. 6.Develop and implement strategies for eliminating racial inequity. “A tool is only as good as the mindset using it”…-fullan

17. Ladders of Inference: 2+2=5?

18. Future Learning  Data (B U ILD)  Common Language of Instruction ( B UILD)  RTT Engagement

19. B U ILD: DATA & RESOURCES  PROGRESS: Data repository  Using data to inform practice

20. B UILD: 5D Instructional Framework

21. Reflections  Reflect on your learning from the day  Consider what/how you will share with those you lead  Internal Next Step? External Next Step?

22. Despite current ads and slogans, the world doesn't change one person at a time. It changes when networks of relationships form among people who share a common cause and vision of what's possible. This is good news for those of us intent on creating a positive future. Rather than worry about critical mass, our work is to foster critical connections. We don't need to convince large numbers of people to change; instead, we need to connect with kindred spirits. Through these relationships, we will develop the new knowledge, practices, courage and commitment that lead to broad-based change. Margaret Wheatley, Using Emergence to Take Social Innovation to Scale, by Margaret Wheatley and Deborah Frieze