1. GCSD Leadership Academy Mission
The Greece Leadership Academy seeks to provide a robust leadership development program customized to meet the needs of the district. This rigorous, experiential school leadership refinement program is designed to engage Greece leaders to be the change agents and transformative school leaders who measurably impact student achievement.
One Vision ● One Team ● One Greece

2. Supporting the CCSS Implementation
What are some of the Common Core instructional strategies we have modeled this week?
One Vision ● One Team ● One Greece

3. One Vision ● One Team ● One Greece
Purpose Day 5
To understand systems thinking and be able to apply it as an approach to problem solving and analysis
To understand the implications and impact of systems on the role of the leader
To build the relationship between school community members
One Vision ● One Team ● One Greece

4. Team Building: Sorting
One Vision
One Team
One Greece

5. One Vision ● One Team ● One Greece
What does this activity have to do with leadership?
How did you organize yourselves when reasons for sorting were arbitrary? What were you looking for? Why did you pay attention to those particular organizing principles?
How does sorting data relate to decision making?
Are you looking for data that affirm your beliefs and values? Why do we tend to look for and sort what is alike?
Sorting
One Vision ● One Team ● One Greece

6. Systems Thinking Leadership Academy
One Vision
One Team
One Greece

7. Systems Thinking Purpose
To explore how a systems thinking approach can help school leaders analyze and think through a change event, specifically the changing role of Teacher Leaders in GSCD
To understand the “iceberg” construct and be able to use it to identify leverage points within a system

8. Systems Thinking: Iceberg
One Vision ● One Team ● One Greece

9. Systems Thinking: Iceberg
One Vision ● One Team ● One Greece

10. Ladder of Inference/ Mental models
Observable “data” and experiences
Select “Data” from observations
Add Meanings (cultural and personal)
Make Assumptions based on the added meanings
Draw Conclusions
Adopt Beliefs about the world
Take Actions based on beliefs
The reflexive loop (Our beliefs affect what data we select next time)
Senge, P., et al. (2000). Schools that learn: A fifth discipline field book for educators, parents, and everyone who cares about education. New York: Doubleday/Currency.
One Vision ● One Team ● One Greece

11. Teacher Leader Roles: Administrative Perspective Barb Deane-Williams Jason Cooney Shaun Nelms Doug Pacelli
One Vision
One Team
One Greece

12. Political Mapping Leadership Academy
One Vision
One Team
One Greece

13. Political Mapping Purpose
To use a Political Mapping Tool to explore the Teacher Leader Position in your school
In order to
Identify who will be affected by the work of the teacher leaders and consider strategies for moving forward
Be able to apply a systems thinking approach to problem solving

14. Political Mapping: Process
Teacher Leaders
One Vision ● One Team ● One Greece

15. Political Mapping: Process
Clearly state the change or initiative to be undertaken and place that statement in a circle.
Begin to identify, in satellite fashion, each of the people or groups (stakeholders) who are likely to have an interest in the change.
For each satellite created, determine if the potential impact of the person or group is High, Medium, or Low.
For all High and Medium impact satellites, create a new set of satellites, indicating the specific individual or groups with whom you need to communicate.
For each individual or group, create a strategy.
One Vision ● One Team ● One Greece

16. Political Mapping: Debrief
What kinds of strategies did you come up with for your school?
How did what you heard from the superintendent, GTA, GASA, and deputy superintendent earlier today impact your thinking/strategizing?
One Vision ● One Team ● One Greece

17. Reflections & Recap Week 1 Leadership Academy
One Vision
One Team
One Greece

18. Reflection and Looking Forward
What do you want Teacher Leaders to understand about how your school will be moving forward related to,
Strategic Plan
Instructional Practice
PLCs
Teacher Effectiveness
Mission and Vision
What actions will you take? What supports will you need?
How will the Teacher Leader figure into your plans?
One Vision ● One Team ● One Greece

19. Reflection and Looking Forward: Debrief
How do these plans connect to the strategic plan?
What have you seen or heard ideas from your colleagues that resonates with you?
One Vision ● One Team ● One Greece

20. Overview: Week Two
One Vision
One Team
One Greece

21. One Vision ● One Team ● One Greece
Making Connections
Day 5
Day 6
Teacher Leader Roles
TL vision for the district
Unpack & apply the TL standards and job description
Journey Lines
One Vision ● One Team ● One Greece

22. One Vision ● One Team ● One Greece
Making Connections
All Week 1
Day 7
Team building
Developing & supporting effective teams
Reflections/ SIP work
TPOV
Share best practices to support TL
One Vision ● One Team ● One Greece

23. One Vision ● One Team ● One Greece
Making Connections
Day 2 & Day 3
Day 8
Curriculum Review of the CCSS
Revisit Hattie’s
Dissect further CCSS ELA & Math to gain an understanding of vertical alignment
Develop implementation plans & identify priorities
Visible Learning
One Vision ● One Team ● One Greece

24. One Vision ● One Team ● One Greece
Making Connections
Day 2 & Day 3
Day 8
Curriculum Review of the CCSS
Revisit Hattie’s
Dissect further CCSS ELA & Math to gain an understanding of vertical alignment
Develop implementation plans & identify priorities
Visible Learning
One Vision ● One Team ● One Greece

25. One Vision ● One Team ● One Greece
Making Connections
Day 1
Day 9
Strategic Plan with an emphasis on Goal 1 & Goal 2
Identifying work priorities for SIP work
Every Student by Face and Name
Systems to support the implementation
Multi-tiered support systems
One Vision ● One Team ● One Greece

26. One Vision ● One Team ● One Greece
Making Connections
All Week
Day 10
Reflections, Goals, SIP, Strategic Plan, Mission
Develop plans to engage all stakeholders
Set personal goals
One Vision ● One Team ● One Greece

27. Making Connections What resonates with you?
Use the agendas to select the session that had the most impact for you.
Write it on a post-it note.
Using the Strategic Map by your table, determine where the post-it fits and place it on the map.
One Vision ● One Team ● One Greece

28. School Community: SIP Work
One Vision
One Team
One Greece

29. Select someone other than the principal 55 min. action plan templates
Reflections - Day 5
In school teams, map out the strategies that would be used to support your school mission/ vision as you work to make connections to the strategic plan.
Complete reflection on pre-work as a team (11x16)
Focus on strategies or activities to make explicit connections to the mission/ vision
Continue SIP Goal Setting template
Who should facilitate?
Select someone other than the principal
55 min. action plan templates
One Vision ● One Team ● One Greece

30. Leadership Follies Day Five
One Vision
One Team
One Greece

31. One Vision ● One Team ● One Greece
Purpose
To highlight in a fun way what has been learned
One Vision ● One Team ● One Greece

32. Silent reflection time
Solo Jot: Reflecting on the previous discussions and the week’s activities, write yourself some notes about what stands out for you.
This is SILENT time.
One Vision ● One Team ● One Greece

33. One Vision ● One Team ● One Greece
In your school groups
Share your stand outs.
Everyone should contribute at least a couple.
One Vision ● One Team ● One Greece

34. Prepare a Presentation
Your goal is to share your group’s learnings with the rest of the participants. In a way that keeps our interest.
Suggest you use some (three?) of the following components: music, physical movement, props, audience participation, sound effects, drama or role-playing, art/pictures.
All group members must have a visible role.
25 minutes to prepare. Between 2 and 4 minutes max.
One Vision ● One Team ● One Greece