1. Instructional Leadership Supporting High Standards

2. © AZ Board of Regents, All rights reserved, 2012. Name of Superintendent –Welcome –Why Important Welcome

3. © AZ Board of Regents, All rights reserved, 2012. Name of Facilitator –Overview / Agenda –Enduring Understandings –Guiding Questions –Targeted Objectives –Introductions Overview & Introductions

4. Proposed Norms & Expectations Stay focused and fully engaged –no competing conversations please Participate to grow –share openly and monitor your listening Be a learner –create your own meaning and application Get your needs met –ask questions that benefit the group –personal questions on breaks Housekeeping –silence cell phones –handle business later – share ONE point …then next person

5. © AZ Board of Regents, All rights reserved, 2012. Student Achievement Teacher Quality Instructional Leadership ImplementingMonitoring Supporting CommunicatingAdvocatingPlanning Instructional Leadership Core Component is Managed through Key Processes

6. © AZ Board of Regents, All rights reserved, 2012. There are individual, team and school goals for rigorous student academic and social learning. High Standards for Student Learning

7. © AZ Board of Regents, All rights reserved, 2012. Encourages students to successfully achieve rigorous goals for student learning –Promotes recognition and rewards for students who achieve high standards of academic learning Supports teachers in meeting school goals Supports teachers in helping students reach high standards of learning –Provides safety nets so all students can meet high standards of learning. Create conditions that help faculty and students reach ambitious learning targets Research-based Critical Behaviors

8. © AZ Board of Regents, All rights reserved, 2012. Review & make notes regarding… –Definition of core component (top) –Definition of key process (left-top) –Research-Based Critical Behaviors Rate self –5 = highly effective –3 = effective –1 = ineffective List evidence to support rating Action Plan

9. © AZ Board of Regents, All rights reserved, 2012. How do instructional leaders use research findings to focus their leadership on sustain high standards? Supporting High Standards Segment Guiding Questions

10. © AZ Board of Regents, All rights reserved, 2012. Distribute handout: Believe in Me Poem: “Believe In Me” –by Principal Dave Hardy, Achievement First East New York Middle School Play video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiiNgF2upXc&f eature=player_detailpagehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiiNgF2upXc&f eature=player_detailpage Believe in Me

11. © AZ Board of Regents, All rights reserved, 2012. First as a table group –Compare lists of items in each column from each person in your group. –Which items support sustaining high standards in Principal Hardy’s school? Which 1-2 are most significant? Discussion

12. © AZ Board of Regents, All rights reserved, 2012. Now let’s share our collective observations about Dave Hardy’s beliefs about … –Which items support sustaining high standards in Principal Hardy’s school? Which 1 is most significant? Discussion

13. © AZ Board of Regents, All rights reserved, 2012. Read the article: McRel’s Balanced Leadership Framework: Developing the Science of Educational Leadership by Waters, Marzano & McNulty Consider how the experts’ insights FIT into your foundational knowledge of what makes… –a strong instructional leader –a principal with High Standards for Student Learning Global Picture: What do the Experts Say?

14. © AZ Board of Regents, All rights reserved, 2012. Read the article: Balanced Leadership Framework: Developing the Science of Educational Leadership Everyone – Reads page 1-5 (including Figure 3) ARead pp 5 - 7 The Differential… & The Focus… B Read pp 7 - 8 The Magnitude… C Read pp 8 - 9 Continuing Research … Identify and record: –+ for key concepts & ideas – “star” something you think is significant and you might want to implement in your school Be prepared to teach your section to the rest of the group. Global Picture: What do the Experts Say

15. © AZ Board of Regents, All rights reserved, 2012. Working as a table group –Teach the group your section –Discuss Figure 3 –Discuss how each impacts sustaining high standards The Differential Impact of Leadership The Focus of Change The Magnitude or “Order” of Change –Identify 3-5 responsibilities that your group believes are most significant in sustaining high standards in a school Global Picture: What do the Experts Say

16. © AZ Board of Regents, All rights reserved, 2012. Whole group share –Each group will share ONE identified responsibility We may go “round-robin” 2 or 3 times to enable all groups to share their thoughts Global Picture: What do the Experts Say

17. © AZ Board of Regents, All rights reserved, 2012. Focus on critical responsibilities Ideals/Beliefs Optimize Focus Discipline Affirmation Change Agent Culture of Learning NAESP research converted to McREL vocabulary Sustaining High Standards

18. © AZ Board of Regents, All rights reserved, 2012. Compare the lists from … –Principal Hardy’s video –McREL’s article –NAESP research How can your school benefit from a focus on these responsibilities? Connecting article & Video…

19. © AZ Board of Regents, All rights reserved, 2012. Spend a Buck (100 pennies) Focusing on the 7 leadership responsibilities –The NAESP short list Making Choices… –Individually - Reflect on the behavior and the value you will place on each behavior (record your thoughts) –Group - Discuss within the group, and come to consensus as a group for the value placed on each behavior (record) –Be prepared to share your reasons for your choice regarding bang for the buck (payoff choices) Connect… Principal Supporting High Standards for Student Learning – Principal Behaviors

20. © AZ Board of Regents, All rights reserved, 2012. Spend a Buck (100 pennies) Share your choices –Provide an explanation of WHY you put the most pennies into one responsibility Connect… Principal Supporting High Standards for Student Learning – Principal Behaviors

21. © AZ Board of Regents, All rights reserved, 2012. 'Through learning we re-create ourselves. Through learning we become able to do something we were never able to do.' Peter Senge Sustaining High Standards for Student Learning

22. © AZ Board of Regents, All rights reserved, 2012. Consider the Guiding Question Use column labeled “Strategies/Ideas” –connect today’s work with the “Research- Based Critical Behaviors.” –List at least THREE things per box Pair Share ONE strategy you learned today and how you plan to use it at your school. Closure for this Segment 22

23. © AZ Board of Regents, All rights reserved, 2012. Review the following… –Targeted Objectives –Research-Based Critical Behaviors Next Steps –What additional data do you need? –Who will you involve in process? –What resources do you need? Action Plan –Do what? –By when? Conclusion and Development of an Action Plan

24. © AZ Board of Regents, All rights reserved, 2012. In table groups (in a round robin format) –Share one new learning and describe how you will apply it in your job –NO REPEATS! Workshop Closure

25. © AZ Board of Regents, All rights reserved, 2012. Please complete “Participant Feedback” form –Grant research –Improve future workshops Workshop Closure