Learning Teaching and Family Support Retreat March 25, :00 am – 3:30 pm Wiki site

Learning organizations are organizations where people continually expand their capacity to create the results they truly desire, where new and expansive patterns of thinking are nurtured, where collective aspiration is set free, and where people are continually learning how to learn together. In essence, leaders are people who ‘walk ahead,” people genuinely committed to deep change, in themselves and in their organizations. - Peter Senge

AGENDA  9:00-9:30 Coffee  9: :00 Welcome and Outcomes  10: :45 Leadership Problems of Practice using the Consultancy Protocol  10:45- 11:30 BUI LD : Framing Conversations about Race: Part  11:30-12:15 LUNCH  12:15- 1:30 BUILD: Instructional Core: 5 D Framework and Purpose Resources  1:30-2:30 Problems of Practice & Systems Tool Application  2:30- 3:00 Reflections & Next Steps

Outcomes for today  Reflect on our leadership successes and challenges and further our leadership around eliminating the gap  To deepen our skills in engaging in conversations about race  To learn more about the data available within Progress.  Continue to learn how to apply the our 5D Instructional Framework to our work with adult learners, focusing on “PURPOSE”  Practice applying tools to leadership problems of practice  Connect and network with colleagues

Strategic Work Group Activities  How are you engaged and connected with the READY, ACHIEVE, SUCCEED or BUILD work?  What can you to ensure these groups are successful?

BUILD: Expectations as LTFS Leaders  B est Practices: Learn from each other by sharing best practices and replicating success  U phold Whole Child Tenets: Healthy, safe, engaged, supported and challenged youth  I nstructional Core: Build capacity around the instructional core of effective teaching, relevant content and student engagement  L ead with Racial Equity  D ata Informed: Understand our local educational issues and target needs BUILD = PSESD’s Theory of Change or the building blocks required to ensure success in meeting our END

Leadership Challenge

Leadership Problems of Practice  1 min: Establish process, times, and introduce and presenter.  4 min: Presenter explains an issue relating to the topic under study.  Group listens silently and takes notes.  5 min: Group asks clarifying/probing questions (not suggestions!)  6-7 min: Group shares thoughts and wonderings that might broaden the presenter’s perspective on the problem or offer solutions. Presenter takes notes silently.  4 min: Presenter reflects aloud about what he or she heard and possible next steps.  3 min: Group members silently reflect/record what they learned which might be of use to them in their practice.

Framing Conversations about Race

Activity Goals  To deepen our skills in engaging in conversations about race.  To engage in self-reflection regarding our work in engaging conversations about race.  To learn more about the data available within Progress.

Activity Directions: 1.Choose partner. 2.Identify a data set from Progress that shows opportunity gap by race. 3.Read the scenario with your partner and use the talking points to answer the questions. 4.Practice engaging in the conversation through role-play. 5.When complete, write down any thoughts or reactions regarding the role-play.  How did this exercise strengthen your skills in framing conversations about race?

PROGRESS 

LUNCH

Moments of Impact

Connecting to 5D – Purpose Last TimeToday How

Connecting to 5D - Purpose Last timeToday

Purpose  Develop a shared understanding of core principles for designing strategic conversations  Outcomes  Summarize core principles outlined in Moments of Impact  Make connections to our work

Success Criteria  I can…  Summarize the core principles of strategic conversations  I can make connections between the core principles and my work

Anchor Reading 10 minutes  Review chapter 1 - Moments of Impact.  Read and underline key words

Group  Number off (1-5) in your group  Reread the core principle that matches your number  Underline important words or phrases

Poster  Bring your text  Each group moves to one poster

Summary  6 minutes  Record a summary of core principle in 1 or 2 sentences

Key idea  6 minutes  Read summary written by prior group  Add two key ideas from the text related to the core principle

Example  6 minutes  Read the summary and key ideas written by previous groups  Provide an example for the core principle

Applications/Connections  6 minutes  Read the summary, key ideas and examples written by previous groups  Record applications/connections to our work related to the core principle

Video  What principles are implemented in this scenario?

Next Steps  Book Study  Optional  Purchase the book  look for details via  Tweet Up at PSLA meeting in April  Focus on connections to CEL 5D Framework

Success Criteria  I can…  Summarize the core principles of strategic conversations  I can make connections between the core principles and my work

Debrief  Our purpose today was to  Develop a shared understanding of core principles for designing strategic conversations  To what degree did this protocol support this purpose?

RACE EQUITY TOOL 1.Educate on racial issues and raises racial consciousness. 2.Promote racially inclusive collaboration and engagement. 3.Assess community conditions and set goals for affecting the desired community impact. 4.Expand opportunity and access for individuals. 5.Affect systemic change. 6.Develop and implement strategies for eliminating racial inequity. “A tool is only as good as the mindset using it”…-fullan

Ladders of Inference: 2+2=5?

Reflections  Reflect on your learning from the day  Consider what/how you will share with those you lead  Internal Next Step? External Next Step?