1. Welcome! PreK-3 Principal Leadership Series
Ensuring High-Quality Learning Environments and Teaching
Session Two, September 27, 2016
“Leading for educational excellence and equity. Every day for every one.”

2. Introduction to Session 2
Bondo and Jessica
Jessica: Distractions happen when leading-there is no prevention of minor or major hiccups in our journey.  However we can control the time/resources loss in re calibrating our GPS to get us back on course.  
Leading today in PreK-3 also inundates us with so many things:  Innovation, Back to Basics, Mediation, Flexible Seating, Recess, Coding, STEM/STEAM, PLC's, PBIS, RtI...and so much more.  All of these concepts may/or may not be part of your school vision but until you have a clear end in mind all of the above can take you off course and steer you away from what is best for your students.
Dr. Holland today will immerse us with practical knowledge surrounding our abilities to ensure we are providing effective instruction for ALL students EVERYDAY.  This assurance comes with research and leaders like us who have used these competences to build a system that prevents students from falling behind by building solid foundational skills delivered in a developmentally appropriate manner.  
One word you will here today is Intentional.  When we do anything with a clear end in mind the odds of success significantly raise as compared to throwing ideas/strategies at a problem and crossing our fingers that one will be the trick.   
Today we will have time to work with each other to create solid pathways towards all students' success so no matter the road block ahead we can regain our course quickly with a clear end in mind.
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3. Agenda
Agenda for this session includes a work time at the beginning. There will also be more group discussion, compared to first session.
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4. Strategy Building – Taking Action
For our first work time, we will be using our strategy building worksheet from Session 1. Take time to discuss this with your colleagues. During this time, or at another time, please complete the Strategy Building Survey.
In our experience working on PreK-3 initiatives, the most common questions revolve around action: “What do we do?” What does it look like when we implement?”
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5. Creating and Sharing Strategies
We will take your contributions and add them to our Principal Leadership webpage.
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6. Self-Assessment
Our second work time (over lunch) will be the same as our last session.
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7. Strategy Building – Taking Action
End the day with strategy building for competency 2.
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8. Series’ Website Twitter
Twitter
#MNP3Principals
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9. Introduction to Session 2
Principal Leadership Series
What we have learned
PreK-3 is a K-12 reform effort
Not building PreK-3 system, but leading PreK-3 work.
“Not who is leading, but who is not leading PreK-3 work”
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10. Focusing on Right Things
“Coherence represents going into action with the right drivers as the foundation.”
Fullan and Quinn, 2016, p. 16
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12. Evaluation: Highest Priorities
Engage your learning community in understanding the importance of the early learning continuum and the transitions along it.
Set expectations that the continuum of learning from age three to grade three is fundamental to your school’s mission.
80% respondents listed these as top priorities.
Session 1 evaluation. 80% listed these as top priorities.
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13. Goal for Session 2
Understand how quality teaching, supported by standards, developmentally appropriate curriculum and instruction work together to help foster children’s learning and growth.
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14. Dr. Adam Holland
Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Teaching Experience
First grade, pre-kindergarten, and three year-olds with special needs but spent most of his teaching career in kindergarten. 
Projects
FirstSchool Implementation
From Evaluation to Inquiry
Ready Classrooms
Snapshot Data Collection Project
Chief Interest
Children's motivation and engagement.
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