Iowa Core Leadership Academy

2010-11

Session 1

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•Leadership in The Office

Your learning experience

Take a few minutes to jot down some notes about a person you consider to be a great leader

Team up with a partnerTell your partner your ideasListen to your partners’ ideasIdentify a common theme in your

discussion

Shared Leadership

What is leadership?Collins (2001) Good to great

“Larger-than-life, celebrity leaders who ride in from the outside are negatively correlated with going from good to great.”

At your table groups

List initiatives have occurred during your years in education.

Circle those that have created lasting improvement.

What are barriers to lasting school improvement?

Understanding

Educational Change

School culture

can stop

change dead in its tracks!

There are other common

reasons why change is

difficult

People can be irrationalDecisions can be made poorlyPersonalities can get in the way

State, district, school, classroom goals

can be out of alignmentAny change can be difficult to accept

Schools engage in self-destructive

behavior

Quick Fix

Some times the most difficult leadership acts

are to refrain from intervening through popular quick fixes

Peter Senge

AttackAbandon

Attempt

Attempt, Attack, Abandon Cycle

“as the number of changes multiplies, and as the time demands

increase, people approach a dysfunction threshold, a point where they lose the capacity to implement changes”--Darryl Conner, Managing at the speed of change

So how do

we make it happen?

First Turn/Last Turn

1. Read individually. Highlight 2-3 items.2. In turn -- share one of your items, ----- but do not comment on it - The First Turn.3. Group members comment in round-robin order about the item. (No cross talk)4. The initial person who named the item then shares his or her thinking about the item and gets - The Last Turn5. Repeat the pattern around the table.

• Take a break…

Iowa Core Implementation

• Review the activities on your implementation plan.

• On sticky notes- Iowa Core activities for 2010-11.

• Decide if the activity is first order change or second order change.

• What are the implications?

Cultivating a…

Personal

Learning

Network

Ideas Spread Like a Virus

Google.doc Form

CLTs… Next Steps

• Between now and the next time we meet…– 2 CLT meetings with your team

Stay tuned… moodle?... Google.site?

Future Dates

• Jan/Feb– 8:30- 3:30: CLTs

• April– 8:30-3:30: Facilitation and Coaching