1. Learning Teaching and Family Support Retreat September 24, 2014 9:00 am – 3:00 pm Wiki site http://ltfsleadership.wikispaces.com http://ltfsleadership.wikispaces.com

2. AGENDA  9:00 – 9:15 Welcome & Outcomes  9:15 - 10:00 PSESD 2014-15  10:00 - 10:45 Leadership to Close the Gap  10:45- 11:30 Fear of Conflict & Sense of Urgency  11:30- 12:15 LUNCH  12:45- 1:30 Leadership Problems of Practice  1:30-2:30 Open Space/System’s tools  2:30- 3:00 Reflections & Next Steps

3. Outcomes for today  Reflect on our leadership successes and challenges and further our leadership around eliminating the gap  Practice applying tools to leadership problems of practice  Explore how sense of urgency and fear of conflict get in our way of becoming and Anti-Racist Multicultural Organization  Connect and network with colleagues

4. Advocacy Early HeadStart ECEAP Educare HeadStart Peer Programs Platform for Change School Readiness WaKIDS Arts Clock Hours/MERIT Dropout Prevention, Intervention & Re-Engagement English Language Arts Equity, Inclusion & Cultural Competency Mathematics Multilingual Services Innovation, Outreach & Interagency Relations Native American Education PreK-3 rd System Support Professional Learning Race to the Top Research, Evaluation & Data Services School, Family & Community Partnerships Special Services Student Support Services Transportation WA State Learning Standards Science STEM Accreditation Common Core High School to Postsecondary Next Generation Science Relife Student & School Success Teacher Principal Evaluation Project Expanded Learning Services DRAFT 9/24/14 LEARNING, TEACHING & FAMILY SUPPORT

5. Celebration themes 13-14  Cross program, cross department work groups  Common language and common definitions  Leveraging work across programs  Greater coordination and dot connecting  Expansion of successful efforts  Greater alignment and access to resources to support our BUILD theory of change  New funding sources  Innovation fund is funding proposed strategy work  Business as unusual is now becoming business as usual

6. Leadership Dilemma  Have we solicited input from our stakeholders and modeled the way with the race equity tool?  Are we leveraging our RTT work?  Is the current strategy group structure the best structure moving forward?  Are we focused on the right leverage points?  What barriers can we systematically dismantle?  Where can we be “BOLDer” in our leadership?  Are we truly stretching our leadership in service of our END to our capacity?

7. BUILD: Expectations as LTFS Leaders  B est Practices: Learn from each other by sharing best practices and replicating success  U phold Whole Child Tenets: Healthy, safe, engaged, supported and challenged youth  I nstructional Core: Build capacity around the instructional core of effective teaching, relevant content and student engagement  L ead with Racial Equity: Eliminate systemic racial inequities that impact student achievement and implement strategies that result in racially equitable outcomes  D ata Informed: Understand our local educational issues and target needs BUILD = PSESD’s Theory of Change or the building blocks required to ensure success in meeting our END

8. MEASURES OF PROGRESS  School readiness (pre-k)  School readiness (kindergarten)  3 rd grade reading  6 th grade at risk of low commitment to school  7 th grade math  10 th grade math  High school graduation (5 year)  Direct post-secondary enrollment  Pre-college course taking in math (2 year colleges)

9. Leadership to Close the Gap C RITERION 8 R UBRIC : C LOSING O PPORTUNITY G APS AND REMOVING BARRIERS ESD leaders foster and promote a vision focused on student learning outcomes, implemented through dynamic leadership across the organization which result in removal of systemic barriers to ensure equity for all students.  Element 8.1: Focus on Student Learning  Element 8.2: Identify Systemic Barriers and Strategies to Close Resulting Gaps  Element 8.3: Demonstrate Commitment to Close Opportunity Gaps and Overcome Systemic Barriers

11. Sense of Urgency

12. Fear of Open Conflict

13. LUNCH

14. Leadership Problems of Practice  1 min: Establish process, times, and introduce and presenter.  4 min: Presenter explains an issue relating to the topic under study.  Group listens silently and takes notes.  5 min: Group asks clarifying/probing questions (not suggestions!)  6-7 min: Group shares thoughts and wonderings that might broaden the presenter’s perspective on the problem or offer solutions. Presenter takes notes silently.  4 min: Presenter reflects aloud about what he or she heard and possible next steps.  3 min: Group members silently reflect/record what they learned which might be of use to them in their practice.

15. Problems of Practice & Tools  Iceberg  Ladders of Inference  Immunity Map  Race Equity Tool

16. Iceberg

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

19. 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

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

21. 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