1 Building Leadership Capacity through Professional Certification NWESD 189 August 2013 Association of Washington School Principals

2 AWSP’s Role in Principal Professional Certification 1. Assist in development & implementation of job embedded certification process 2. Support members by offering professional development aligned with certification standards 3. Gather feedback from members/candidates for continuous program improvement

3 AWSP’s Role Today To share our experiences with the POLE 360 What is the POLE 360? Why participate? What do I need to do? What results will I receive? How do I maximize results? Who else will see the results? What difference will it make?

POLE 360™ A multi-source feedback survey for leaders N.E. 8 th Street, Suite 303, Bellevue, WA

5 POLE 360 Perceptual Survey Format used in Business & Industry for years Formative, not evaluative feedback Provides personal and confidential feedback Web based, only taking minutes 66 Likert bubble-in questions The POLE 360 is LEADER-centric Directly aligned to ISLLC Standards and State 8

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Provides perceptions of your leadership behaviors from: Leader (You) Supervisor (1) Peers (3-6) Staff (12+) 7

8 Why am I doing the POLE 360? Regular feedback informs and positions you in a proactive stance! Assists in goal setting for your individual and school professional growth planning Required for attainment of professional level certification

9 What do you need to do before you begin? Follow program director’s directions explicitly! Develop invitation & directions to respondents Make list of respondents, addresses & role How many respondents do I select? Who do I select? What do I tell my staff? - What is my purpose? - What is my respondent selection process? Respondent selection is Critical

What happens & when? Complete respondent selection by _______ You receive requesting respondent names & addresses from CEE You notify respondents about this process You & respondents receive invitation –Directions include Website log-on, Survey ID and Pass code –SPAM filter issues You & respondents have ___ wks to submit Reminders sent if needed Program director/you receive results 10

11 How to Maximize your POLE 360 Results Report? Take time to reflect on the data

How to Maximize your POLE 360 Results Report? Take time to reflect on the data Remember it is only one piece of data 12

How to Maximize your POLE 360 Results Report? Take time to reflect on the data Remember it is only one piece of data Proactively use results in your professional certification plan - Identify growth targets - Set goals - Find resources and support - Get to the “So that...” 13

14 Results Report and Your Emotional “Check” This is confidential, formative data for you. Be open for self-reflection with the data. Identify what emotional response(s) are being felt and which need to be addressed. Prepare to use data to start conversations with: –Yourself –Your program director –Respondents, including supervisor –Critical friends Avoid the desire to know, “who said that?”

15 Absolute Value (Total of All) All respondent perceptions are on the chart with the different choices of responses in different colors.

16 Comparison between respondent groups

Perception of Self VS. Others’ Perception Perception of Self set to “0” 17 Gap Analysis

What Difference Will It Make? It’s up to you! 18

19 Questions? For me? For program director? Additional information you need?

20 Did We Answer These Questions? What is the POLE 360? Why participate? What do I need to do? What results will I receive? How do I maximize results? Who else will see the results? What difference will it make?

21 AWSP Contacts Don Rash – (P) (C) Web site: