1. WHAT? SO WHAT? NOW WHAT? Equity Conference February, 2010 Dr. Marsha Lay and Suzy Cutbirth C & L Facilitation Equity Oriented Leadership

2. Session Goals: 1. To enhance participants understanding of equitable leadership 2. To provide participants with strategies to support and strengthen the development of equity leadership practices 3. To introduce Experiential Education / Reflective Practice as effective learning processes. What?

3. Equity Attitude The role of an educational leader……. “goes beyond the notion of instructional leader to the leader as a cultural change agent” Kruse and Seashore, 2009 What?

4. Systemic Equity Leadership As a leader guiding the development of a culture that values equitable practices in education, I must challenge traditional leadership models and insist on developing leadership practices to identify and dismantle systems that produce and support inequitable results. What?

5. Setting Expectation

6. Ideal School EXPECTATIONS Behaviors/ Actions StructuresBeliefs

7. Events What’s happening? Patterns of Behavior What’s been happening? What are the trends? What changes have ocurred? Structures What has influenced the patterns? (e.g. rules, lesson plans, curriculum) What are the relationships among the parts? Mental Models What values, beliefs and assumptions do you have about teaching? What is seen What is generally unseen L e a r n i n g L e v e r a g e The Iceberg Model.... Surfacing and challenging our assumptions Adapted from Innovation Associates, Inc. 2002 So What?

8. ALL systems are perfectly aligned to get the results they get….. Margaret Wheatley, 2000

9. Equally Important!!! WHA T ABOUT ME! So What?

10. Principles in Action Reflective Practice Activity: Complete and ask leadership team to complete as they see your “Principles in Action”

12. ??????????????? “There is a mysterious connection between language and thinking” R. Rogers, 2010 Are you asking the right questions?

13. Tinkering or Transforming? Technical vs. Adaptive Change…… Significant systemic change requires more than tweaking… it is the breaking down and rebuilding of structures to support our expectations, beliefs and values……

15. Built on Leadership Practices Common Purpose Mutual Respect Accountability Interdependence Communication Commitment TRUST © M.Lay,2007

16. Collaboration Survey What skills, attitudes, experiences define a ………..good collaborator? WHAT DOES RESEARCH SAY?

17. Research Adults learn best through reflecting on their experiences. (Costa and Garmston, 2002) All learning occurs through conversation. (Bruffee, 1999)

18. EE Activities Support the development of  Expectation for equal participation (everyone has a voice)  Relationship development ( the conversation is the relationship)  Supports disequilibrium …challenges the status quo through systematic and thoughtful actions..

19. NOW WHAT? How do we know we are designing the experiences to support the work? What is our evidence? Are we asking the right questions?

20. Session Goals: 1. To enhance participants understanding of equitable leadership 2. To provide participants with strategies to support and strengthen the development of equity leadership practices 3. To introduce Experiential Education / Reflective Practice as effective learning processes. What?

21. Exit Activity – BRAIN FULL Directions: On a post it write 3 take- aways from the last 45 minutes. When I say go..you are to find someone in the room you don’t know and ask them for their 3, you share your 3 and then you move on…. When your BRAIN IS FULL….. Go back to your table and list all of the things you can remember…

22. THANKS ! Dr. Marsha Lay & Suzy Cutbirth C & L Facilitation Springfield, Missouri 417-527-1833 SuzyCutbirth@clfaciliatationpros.com NOW WHAT?