Urban Mathematics Education Leadership Academy

Cohort 2

Session 1November 3-5, 2009

Dallas, TX

Welcome Urban Math Leaders

If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.

Isaac Newton (Leading Every Day, Book One, Day 8 Quote)

Seasonal Partners

• Summer

• Fall

• Winter

• Spring

Purposes of the Academy

• To help leaders of mathematics education succeed in their role of planning and carrying out wide-scale changes at all levels of the education system.

• To assist leaders to gain knowledge, skills, and strategies for initiating, implementing, and sustaining educational improvements that help all students learn.

• To build a strong, supportive, and ongoing learning community for leaders of mathematics education.

Guiding Principles

• The vision of the NCTM Standards and Research• A supportive, ongoing learning community• Job-embedded learning• Learning through varied formats and structures• Using knowledge from research, practice, and data-

gathering to make informed decisions• Modeling a professional learning community• Grounding all learning in the context of mathematics

education reform issues

Components of the Academy

• Four Leadership Development Workshops

• Project Learning Goals Plan and Reflections

• Portfolio Sharing

• Resources

• Ongoing Networking

You Are Here Session 1: November 3-5, 2009

– Academy Orientation & Effective Leadership Practices

– Effective Group Development & Facilitation• Session 2: January 19 - 21, 2010

– Designing, Implementing and Evaluating Effective Professional Development

• Session 3: March 2 - 4, 2010

– Leading Individual and Organizational Change

• Session 4: May 25 - 27, 2010

– Sustaining Effective Practice

– Portfolio Sharing

Session 1

AcademyLeadership

Project Learning Goals Plan and Reflections

Daily Reflections Tailored to the Topic and Content Presented

• To reflect on your learning experiences in the Leadership Academy

• To guide you to apply learning to your own leadership roles

• To facilitate the implementation of your new ideas and work

Resources

• Agenda Books• Professional Books• Resource Table (Bibliography)• Academy Colleagues• Photo Wall• Facilitation Strategies• Learning Links• Comment Cards

Ongoing Networking

• Resources and updates from Staff

• Communicating with other Academy Colleagues to support your work in your sites

• Online discussions and sharing of information

Ground Rules for Collaborative Learning

• She/he who works, learns

• Challenge ideas

• Everyone has expertise

• Share “talk time” and engage in active listening

• Phrase questions for the benefit of everyone

• Take time for assimilation of and reflection on learning

• Take care of your own needs, physically and intellectually

• Honor times

• Silent cell phones

• Others

Session 1 Goals: Day 1• Understand the components of the

Leadership Academy

• Learn effective leadership practices

• Identify strengths and areas for growth in your own leadership

• Learn about other districts’ work in mathematics education

• Apply learning to your own work

• Network with staff and academy colleagues

Leading Every Day

Effective Leadership Practices

A miracle worker who can do more with less, pacify rival groups, endure chronic second guessing, tolerate low levels of support, process large volumes of paper, and work double shifts. He or she will have carte blanche to innovate, but cannot spend much money, replace any personnel or upset any constituency.

Michael Fullan

Wanted…

Reflection on Personal Best

• What was the situation?

• What actions did you take that contributed to this being a “personal best” for you as a leader?

Pair and Share

• Get together with your summer partner

• Take 2-3 minutes each to share your examples of effective leadership

Leadership Practices

• Return to your tables and generate a list of 3-5 effective leadership practices suggested by your experiences.

• Report out

Roles of Leaders

“Leaders do not control they enable others to act.”

Kouzes & Posner

• What did the leader(s) do that demonstrated effective leadership?

• How were these similar or different from your own leadership experiences?

• What did you see? What did you not see in terms of effective leadership?

Images of Leadership: Ratatouille

District Profiles

• Brief (10 minutes) introduction to your district and your leadership team

• Key features of your mathematics program• Resources that guide your work• Challenges you face and help you need

from UMELA colleagues

Leadership Practices

• Model the Way• Inspire a Shared

Vision• Challenge the Process• Enable Others to Act• Encourage the Heart

Personal Inventory

• Complete the Inventory

• Use Response Sheet to record and then tally your scores (by columns)

Percentile Rankings

• Label the Response Sheet Columns:– Column #1: Model the Way– Column #2: Inspire a Shared Vision– Column #3: Challenge the Process – Column #4: Enable Others to Act– Column #5: Encourage the Heart

• Find your strengths/weaknesses based on the national percentiles (Note different order of practices on sheet.)

Leadership Practices

• Model the Way• Inspire a Shared

Vision• Challenge the Process• Enable Others to Act• Encourage the Heart

Model the Way

• Leaders set goals that enable followers to experience small wins as they work toward larger goals.

• They are conscious of possible roadblocks and take steps to remove them.

Inspire a Shared Vision

• This practice is about envisioning the future and enlisting others in a common vision.

• Leaders create enthusiasm and commitment among followers to embrace the common vision by appealing to their personal visions, values, interests, hopes, and dreams.

Challenge the Process

• Effective leaders search for opportunities to change the status quo because they believe that the status quo breeds mediocrity.

• Effective leaders take risks and see mistakes as opportunities for learning and growth.

Enable Others to Act

• This practice is about fostering collaboration and strengthening people.

• Leaders know that they cannot do it alone. They build teams and a culture of collaboration.

Encourage the Heart

• This practice is about recognizing contributions and celebrating accomplishments.

Leadership Practices

• Model the Way• Inspire a Shared

Vision• Challenge the Process• Enable Others to Act• Encourage the Heart

Metaphors of Leadership

“Be a lamp, lifeboat or ladder.”

Rumi 13th Century Poet

District Profiles

• Brief (10 minutes) introduction to your district and your leadership team

• Key features of your mathematics program• Resources that guide your work• Challenges you face and help you need

from UMELA colleagues

Reflections on Learning

Day 1 Learning Goals Plan:• Reflect on your learning,

set goals, identify strategies, and note resources.

• Think about how you might share your learning with colleagues.

Feedback

“Gots and Needs”• Help us reflect on the

day and plan for tomorrow by writing at least one thing you “Got” today and one thing you still “Need.” Post on the Chart as you leave.