WELCOME & INTRODUCTIONS Principal Partnership Program

How did P3 begin? Cross-state collaboration (August 2015) Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) and Education Delivery Institute (EDI) A Kentucky Problem of Practice: Lack of Principal Support Statewide Evidence and Data Lack of support for new administrators No KPIP for past 11 years PGES Implementation Data Call to Action Sooner, not later Twitter: #P3Ky 2

What is P3? Principal Partnership Program Collaboration with Colleagues Collective Problem Solving Differentiated and Specific Here’s what P3 is NOT: One-size-fits-all curriculum Telling/Showing ‘how it needs to be done’ Twitter: #P3Ky 3

What are the P3 Focus Areas? Building capacity to increase effectiveness of principals in: using data for decision making and to inform a system of continuous improvement mentoring skills and strategies (consulting, collaborating, coaching), including effective feedback distributed leadership (developing effective teacher teams) purposeful, focused collaboration with other administrators Twitter: #P3Ky 4

What is the P3 plan for the year? Statewide Kick Off (Oct. 21) In-school support (Nov) Regional Support Session (Dec 9-16) In-School support (Jan-Feb) Statewide Support Session (Mar 1) at KHSAA in Lexington, KY Regional Support Session (April) Twitter: #P3Ky 5

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CCSSO & The Wallace Foundation “Research shows that a main reason teachers leave the profession is because of weak principals...Thus, more resources smartly invested in developing effective principals can, in turn, help support teachers and ultimately benefit students as well.” (p. 22) Twitter: #P3Ky 7

Focus Area 1 Building capacity to increase effectiveness of principals in: using data for decision making and to inform a system of continuous improvement Twitter: #P3Ky 8

Focus Area 2 Building capacity to increase effectiveness of principals in: mentoring skills and strategies (consulting, collaborating, coaching), including effective feedback Twitter: #P3Ky 9

Focus Area 3 Building capacity to increase effectiveness of principals in: distributed leadership (developing effective teacher teams) Twitter: #P3Ky 10

Focus Area 4 Building capacity to increase effectiveness of principals in: purposeful, focused collaboration with other administrators Twitter: #P3Ky 11

Focus for Today Building capacity to increase effectiveness of principals: In using data for decision making and to inform a system of continuous improvement In mentoring skills and strategies (consulting, collaborating, coaching), including meaningful feedback In distributed leadership (developing effective teacher teams) Through purposeful, focused collaboration with other administrators Twitter: #P3Ky 12

Continuum of Interactions for Mentoring Take a few moments to read through the information Think of situations when consulting, collaborating, and/or coaching are appropriate Twitter: #P3Ky 13

Dilemma or Problem of Practice Reflection Refinement of your thoughts, if you’ve already uncovered your dilemma or problem of practice Guide your thoughts in determining a possible problem of practice you would like to work through Twitter: #P3Ky 14

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Problem of Practice Protocol Small groups of 3-4 Roles: Coach (Principal), Client (Principal), Time- Keeper/ Note taker (Critical Friend, Teacher Leader, PLEE Coach) Presentation of Problem: 2 minutes Clarification Questions: 5 minutes Restate Problem: 1 minute Probing Questions: 5 minutes Reflection: 2 minutes (Repeat for each PoP) Twitter: #P3Ky 16

Reflection What were the shifts in thinking? I used to think, but now I think… Twitter: #P3Ky 17

Problem Solving Planning Tool 1. Please reflect on the conversation from the PoP protocol group and use this tool to plan next steps 2. Share your ideas with those in your group by exchanging plans and using post-it notes for feedback 3. Ask clarifying questions about the feedback notes. Twitter: #P3Ky 18

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Making Connections… Twitter: #P3Ky 20

A Sampling of Approved SGGs 4 Criteria to consider, first: 1. Includes 100% will grow 2. Proficiency target included 3. Specific measure included 4. Time-bound Choose 1 goal for feedback purposes What 3 questions would you have for this teacher about their goal that pushes further than the compliance pieces? Twitter: #P3Ky 21

Open Space Discussion Time Please use the post-it notes to write a discussion topic or question. Twitter: #P3Ky 22

Website questions… Twitter: #P3Ky 23 1.Go to 2.Principal Partnership tab 3.P3 Resources (pull-down tab and/or clickable from P3 main page)

Reflection and Questions Building capacity to increase effectiveness of principals in: using data for decision making and to inform a system of continuous improvement mentoring skills and strategies (consulting, collaborating, coaching), including effective feedback distributed leadership (developing effective teacher teams) purposeful, focused collaboration with other administrators Twitter: #P3Ky 24

Collection of data points for P3 Surveys (Baseline at statewide event and End-of-Year at last regional event) Feedback on Evaluations Feedback on Website Feedback from Critical Friends Feedback from teachers SREB focus groups across state responding to survey questions about quality feedback. Possible use of SREB survey with P3 subset of teachers Twitter: #P3Ky 25

Evaluation Feedback Twitter: #P3Ky 26