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
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