WEB CONFERENCE TO SUPPORT BOARD LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY Please standby, the web conference will begin shortly! We invite you to use the chat feature to introduce yourself and your team This web conference is hosted on behalf of REGISTER ONLINE ICP 2011 World Convention August 15 – 18,

 Differentiating Professional Development for Experienced Leaders Presented By Tricia Dyson Kathleen Fraumeni Joanne Robinson

Overview 1. In addressing professional development for experienced school administrators and business leaders, what are the guiding principles? 2. What are the design criteria for district level professional development? 3. How do you establish the individual professional development needs of experienced administrators (academic and business roles)? 4. How can the PPA and the Growth Plan be used to drive professional development and the alignment of individual, school, and board goals?

Overview 5. What is the balance between individual and system responsibility for addressing professional development needs? 6. What certified programs are available to address individual needs? 7. How should boards assist underperforming administrators? 8. How do boards evaluate their professional development activities/plans? 9. Closing comments

Question 1: In addressing professional development for experienced school administrators and business leaders, what are the guiding principles?  Focus on questions concerning problems of practice related to teaching and learning  Find the “authentic problems” to address  Engage participants in an examination of their own practice  Develop in-depth understanding of the essential features of the high performance learning community  Explicitly shape the content of professional development  Programs should fit overall district professional development plan

Question 2: What are the design criteria for district level professional development? Answer five questions in designing PD. Question 2:1 What are the readiness levels of the different administrators and how can resources and development opportunities be best targeted to the most open and most reluctant learners? Have a question? Please use the chat function on your screen.

PD Design Criteria – Question 2:1 Principal Performance Appraisal and Principal Learning “Through the systematic identification of effective practice and the careful measurement of both student results and leadership actions, system wide accountability and individual evaluation can transform random acts of good and bad practice into the brains of a learning organization.” Assessing Educational Leaders. Douglas B. Reeves 2009 Page 14

PD Design Criteria – Question 2:1 Leadership Matrix LUCKY High Results, Low Understanding of Success Factors Replication of Success… UNLIKELY! LEADING High Results, High Understanding of Antecedents Replication of Success… LIKELY! LOSING Low results, Low understanding of Success Factors Replication of Failure… LIKELY! LEARNING Low Results, High Understanding of Success Factors Replication of Success… LIKELY! UNDERSTANDING OF ANTECEDENTS OF SUCCESS RESULTSRESULTS

Question 2: What are the design criteria for district level professional development? Question 2:2 Given the district’s strategic improvement plan and staff development plan for principals, what is the best balance between packaged, generic instruction and programs, or self- developed and directed experiences?

Question 2: What are the design criteria for district level professional development? Question 2:3 What is the appropriate community for the development of the particular capacities in question?

Question 2: What are the design criteria for district level professional development? Question 2:4 What problems and skills are the appropriate foci? Have a question? Please use the chat function on your screen.

Question 2: What are the design criteria for district level professional development? Question 2:5 How can the routine processes and structures of the school and district be exploited as opportunities for professional development?

Question 2:What are the design criteria for district level professional development? Exploiting Opportunities  Community Conversations Around “Essential Questions”  Principal Conferences  Portfolio Development  District Professional Development Opportunities  Tailored and Packaged External Programs  Discretionary Professional Development Funds

Question 2: What are the design criteria for district level professional development? Exploiting Opportunities  Self-managed growth  Self-Assessment  360˚ Feedback  Growth Plan  Performance Plan  Collaborative Learning

Question 3: How do you establish the individual professional development needs of experienced administrators (academic and business roles?)  Professional Learning Opportunities  Expose admin to research for the antecedents of success  Individual self assessment  Determine an area for further development  Ensure chosen area of growth is purposeful to the BIP and the SIP  Q & A between colleagues or between Principal and SO to probe initial areas for identification  Leadership Maps

Question 4: How can the PPA and the Growth Plan be used to drive professional development and the alignment of individual, school, and board goals?

Question 5: What is the balance between individual and system responsibility for addressing professional development needs?  It is not about balance, it is about “a state of mind”  The administrator demonstrate how to connect goals that “do not fit” within the context of system and provincial initiatives to student growth

Question 6: What certified programs are available to address individual needs?  EPDC  Crucial Conversations  Lumina  Covey 7 Habits  Covey Focus Have a question? Please use the chat function on your screen.

Question 7: How should boards assist underperforming administrators?  Prevention Strategies  Early Notification of Issues  Intervention Strategies  Clarification of Issues/Tasks/Expectations/Time  Role Supervisor  Successful Interventions  Less Successful Interventions

Question 8: How do boards evaluate their professional development activities/plans?  Design/revision of plan subsequent to BIP design  Careful analysis of system needs re: data results in schools, across system, pockets of need  Feedback from participants  Within context of each series of learning / activity / learning team /etc. use of a “common assessment tool” based upon the principles of staff development  Use of online feedback forms

Closing Comments Have a question or comment? Please use the chat function on your screen.

Thank You for Participating in this Web Conference We would appreciate any feedback that you are able to provide and will be sending you a brief survey to complete shortly. Hosted on behalf of