1. MS/HS Principals’ Statewide Mentoring Meeting Thursday, January 28, 2016

2.  Grow your professional network;  Consider ideas and strategies to improve your leadership life fit;  Share with colleagues a leadership success story;  Discuss pertinent legal issues;  Engage in collaborative conversations regarding an issue of the leader’s choice; and  Gain insight from practicing principals regarding effective evaluation practices. Outcomes:

3. Links  Resources : http://www.sai-iowa.org/jan16-secondary- principal-mentoring.cfm  Evaluation : http://bit.ly/Jan2016SecEval  Mentoring Matters: http://www.sai-iowa.org/mentoring-and- induction.cfm

4.  Name  School/District  What’s your “one thing” (your focus either personally or professionally) this semester? Welcome!!

5.  How do you foster positivity and optimism during this time of year?”  Post ideas and suggestions: http://padlet.com/dschon/jan28 Grounding Activity

6. Leadership-life Fit Dana Schon, SAI

7. Time to Reflect

8. We do not learn from experience… we learn from reflecting on experience. ~John Dewey

9. Leadership-life Fit-Self Assessment

10.  Circle your lowest scores.  How might addressing these attributes of well-being and wisdom impact your overall stress level?  Process in your mentor-mentee partnership. Now What?

11.  It’s the small changes that lead to significant impact.  “Keystone habits start a process that, over time, transform everything.” ~Duhigg, The Power of Habit The Amalgamation of 1%

12. Getting Started…

13. Setting the Stage for IGNITE What issues/concerns would you like to process with your colleagues? 2 MINUTES

14. Top 3 Topics from your Table  Share your list with your table team— not a conversation, just the list.  Come to consensus around your table’s top 3-4 topics and post at http://padlet.com/dschon/IGNI TE http://padlet.com/dschon/IGNI TE

15. Break ! Grow your professional network— choose a new table!

16. Learning Community: Leadership Success Analysis

17. Protocol  Leader with a birthday closest to today selects first presenter.  Timekeeper/facilitator will be the person to the left of the presenter.  Presenter describes the success. 5 MINUTES

18. Protocol  Group asks clarifying questions about the details of the success. 2 MINUTES

19. Protocol  Group talks with each other about the success story and offers additional analysis about what made this so successful while the presenter listens and takes notes:  What did we hear?  What didn’t we hear that might be relevant to the success?  What about the environment/context contributed to the success?  What leadership behaviors were critical to the success?  What questions does the success story raise for us?  What do we think about the success?  What have we done in similar situations? 5 MINUTES

20. Protocol  Presenter reflects on what he/she heard and on what he/she is now thinking, sharing with the group anything that particularly resonated during the consultancy. How can what we have learned apply to our own leadership? 2 MINUTES  Rotate to second presenter. Rotate

21. Legal Lens Matt Carver, SAI

22. Lunch ! Grow your professional network— choose a new table!

23. 1.XXX (Back--NE corner) 2.XXX (Back Middle) 3.XXX (Back--SE corner) 4.XXX (Front – NW corner) 5.XXX(Front – SW corner) 6.XXX (Work Room) 7.XXX (Small Conference Room) IGNITE

24. IGNITE Conversations  Brainstorm questions you have around your prioritized topic.  Move to the area where the conversation will occur.  Person who traveled the farthest begins the conversation by posing a question or comment from his/her list.

25.  Josh Manning, Pella  Jody Ratigan, Norwalk  Nathan Wear, Solon Discussion Panel: Teacher Walk throughs and Evaluation

26.  Please provide an overview of your evaluation process.  What influence/impact do walk-through data have on your evaluations?  Knowing that teacher leaders do not have a role in evaluation, how do you engage their support when you know a teacher would benefit?  How do you initiate a coaching conversation?  How is your conversation different with a “high flying” teacher as compared to a teacher who may need to improve?  How do you make evaluation meaningful rather than a compliance check-off? Discussion Panel: Teacher Walk throughs and Evaluation

27. Upcoming learning opportunities: http://www.sai-iowa.org/events.cfm Evaluation: http://bit.ly/Jan2016SecEval Final Thoughts & Evaluation