1. ISLLC Standard #3 Implementing Effective Meetings Name Workshop Facilitator

2. Welcome  Name of Superintendent  Welcome  Why Important © AZ Board of Regents, All rights reserved, 2012.

3. Overview & Introductions  Name of Facilitator  Introductions  Overview / Agenda  Guiding Questions  Targeted Objectives  ISLLC Standards © AZ Board of Regents, All rights reserved, 2012.

4. Proposed Norms & Expectations  Stay focused and fully engaged  no competing conversations please  Participate to grow  share openly and monitor your listening  Be a learner  create your own meaning and application  Get your needs met  ask questions that benefit the group  personal questions on breaks  Housekeeping  silence cell phones  handle business later  share ONE point …then next person

5. Leadership Model A Systems Thinking Approach: ISLLC Standards and improvement strategies are managed through Key Processes Student Achievement Teacher Quality Instructional Leadership ImplementingMonitoring Supporting CommunicatingAdvocatingPlanning

6. ISLLC Standards  A principal may choose to implement specific strategies to meet the ISLLC Standards and/or improve his/her performance relevant to the ISLLC Standards. The standards are: 1.Facilitating the development, articulation, implementation, and stewardship of a vision of learning 2.Advocating, nurturing, and sustaining a school culture and instructional program conducive to student learning and staff professional growth 3.Ensuring management of the organization, operation, and resources for a safe, efficient, and effective learning environment 4.Collaborating with faculty and community members, responding to diverse community interests and needs, and mobilizing community resources 5.Acting with integrity, fairness, and in an ethical manner 6.Understanding, responding to, and influencing the political, social, economic, legal, and cultural context

7. Sample Application Focus

8. Application Focus At the conclusion of this module you will identify key concepts and plan your application focus In the column labeled “Current Reality” –Rate yourself on a scale of 1-5  5 = Highly effective  3 = Satisfactorily Effective  1 = Ineffective –Describe the evidence that supports your application of this concept

9. ISLLC Standard 3 Workshop Objectives Participants will:  Identify steps necessary to implement effective and meaningful meeting procedures.

10. ISSLC Standard #3 Segment Guiding Question As a school leader what procedures can you implement to ensure that meetings on your campus are effective and productive?

11. What are the Characteristics of an Effective Meeting?  With a partner think of your experience with meetings and  Brainstorm the characteristics of the “good meetings”  Discuss why effective meetings are important to a positive school climate.

12. Video Clip How to Lead a Meeting That People Enjoy Attending http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1QWPTYTC yo  As you watch and consider…  What are the steps in the meeting process?  At the end of the meeting what do the participants need to know?

13. Engaging staff in Effective Meetings  Handout: Article #1—Conducting Effective Meetings (The Community Tool Box—ctb.ku.edu)  Handout: Article #2—Focus on Learning to Improve Your Meetings (Classroom Leadership, June 2004: Vol. 7, Num. 9) As you read the articles consider the following question:  How can you engage staff in meetings and the meeting process to make meetings meaningful for the participants?

14. Engaging staff in Effective Meetings As a table group discuss:  What you can do on your campus to engage staff more effectively in the meeting process.  Do you currently incorporate any of the meeting types outlined in the “Focus on Learning” article?  Could these concepts be incorporated in your current meetings, replace current less meaningful meetings or added to the meeting schedule?

15. Meeting Planning Form Handout: Meeting Planning Form  Review the Meeting Planning Form  Identify any changes you would make to this form to make it effective for your school.  Use the form to plan an up-coming meeting.

16. Application Focus  Consider the guiding question, and think about connects between the ISSLC Standard and workshop’s key concepts  Use column labeled “Strategies/Ideas”  List at least THREE things per box  Pair Share ONE strategy you learned today and how you plan to use it at your school. 16

17. Workshop Closure  Review the following…  Targeted Objectives  ISLLC Standard (Elements, Criteria, or Targeted Behavior list on Application Focus)  Next Steps  What additional data do you need?  Who will you involve in process?  What resources do you need?  Application Focus  Do what?  By when?

18. Workshop Closure  Please complete “Participant Feedback” form  Grant research  Improve future workshops