1. Organizational Management
NIUSI, 2007

2. The steady work of Education for All
Grounded in
How schools can partner with families to build powerful contexts for learning 24/7
How teachers learn to teach
How school organization affects practice
How districts can support school and practitioner effort, and
How these factors affect children's opportunities to learn, participate and succeed.

3. Changing the way that we think
From Isolation to Collaboration
From Rhetoric to Action
From Marginalization to Inclusion
From Commonalities to Diversities
From External to Internal Locus of Control

4. What systemic work needs to be engaged?
Develop Coalitions
Build Consensus
Focus on Message
Renew Practice Simultaneously at the Professional, School, and District levels

5. What systemic work needs to be engaged?
Build Tools that Encourage Reflection, Action, & Continuous Improvement
Build Expertise for the Future
Build Communities for Change
Link Communities of Practice

6. Focus

7. What People Bring

8. What does leadership have to do with it?
Foregrounding Culture
Technical Expertise
Evidence-based decision making
Complexity-conscious policy making
Transparency
Connections

9. My Identity

10. Benchmarks Students Teachers Critical Incidents
% of time spent on crisis response vs community development
Who is in your circles?
What does the community have to say?

11. How do I lead others? Know what you need Listen in sophisticated ways
Demonstrate empathy
Satisfy the “basic self” in others, then…
Appeal to the “better self”
Build capacity for collegiality
Accomplish small “wins” early and celebrate

12. Implementation Maintain a Tight Instructional Focus
Routinize Accountability for Practice and Performance
Open Practice Up to Direct Observation, Analysis, and Criticism
Support differentially based on Performance and Capacity
Devolve increased direction based on practice and performance

13. Implementation Time Communication Calendaring Patterns Discipline
Newsnotes
Face to Face
Teams
Individuals

14. Implementation Your Administrator Systems Leadership Teams Mentorship
Data Collection and Automation
Use of Technology
Leadership Teams
Mentorship
Coaching

15. Flow Out Inside Empower Let go or burn out Practice aikido Be a willow
Fill others’ buckets
Help others frame the situation
Inside
Let go or burn out
Be a willow
Fill your bucket
Learn to live with chaos & ambiguity