1. Elementary Principals’ Statewide Mentoring Meeting
Tuesday, January 26, 2016

2. Outcomes: Grow your professional network;
Identify strategies to improve your leadership-life fit;
Share with colleagues a leadership success;
Gain insight from practicing principals regarding teacher walk-through and evaluation;
Engage in collaborative conversations regarding an issue of the leader’s choice; and
Discuss pertinent legal issues.

3. Links Resources: Evaluation: Mentoring Matters:
Evaluation:
Mentoring Matters:

4. Welcome!! Name School/District
What’s your “one thing” (your focus either personally or professionally) this semester?

5. Grounding Activity http://padlet.com/dschon/jan26
How do you foster positivity and optimism during this time of year?”
Post ideas and suggestions:
Table Talk

6. Leadership-life Fit: Sharpening the Saw
Kim Nelson, Alden Elementary

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

8. 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

9. Grow your professional network—choose a new table!
Break!
Grow your professional network—choose a new table!

10. Learning Community: Leadership Success Analysis

11. 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

12. Protocol
Group asks clarifying questions about the details of the success.
2 MINUTES

13. 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

14. 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.

15. Grow your professional network—choose a new table!
Lunch!
Grow your professional network—choose a new table!

16. Discussion Panel: Teacher Walk throughs and Evaluation
Terry Hurlburt, Waukee
Mark Schlatter, Hudson
Jen Vance, Central DeWitt

17. Discussion Panel: Teacher Walk throughs and Evaluation
Please provide an overview of your evaluation process.
What influence/impact do walk-through data have on your evaluations? 
Knowing that teacher leaders do not have a role in evaluation, how do you engage their support when you know a teacher would benefit?
How do you initiate a coaching conversation?
How is your conversation different with a “high flying” teacher as compared to a teacher who may need to improve?
How do you make evaluation meaningful rather than a compliance check-off?

18. Grow your professional network—choose a new table!
Break!
Grow your professional network—choose a new table!

19. IGNITE XXX (Back--NE corner) XXX (Back Middle) XXX (Back--SE corner)
XXX (Front – NW corner)
XXX (Front – SW corner)
XXX (Work Room)
XXX (Small Conference Room)

20. 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.

21. Matt Carver, SAI
Legal Lens

22. Final Thoughts & Evaluation
Upcoming learning opportunities:
Evaluation:

23. T K A H N O ! Y U