Assistant/Associate Principals and Deans Statewide Mentoring Meeting Tuesday, January 20, 2015.
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Assistant/Associate Principals and
Deans Statewide Mentoring Meeting
Tuesday, January 20, 2015
Outcomes: Grow your professional network;
Collaborate to address challenges and celebrate successes;
Explore different aspects of observation and/or evaluation from the walk-through to coaching teachers to preparing the summative evaluation;
Identify time management strategies to support a better leadership-life fit;
Solicit feedback and insight regarding a leadership dilemma; and
Increase awareness of the most current legal issues.
Links Resources:
http://www.sai-iowa.org/jan-ap-statewide-meeting.cfm
Evaluation:
http://bit.ly/APJan2015
Mentoring Matters:http://www.sai-iowa.org/2014-15-resources.cfm
Celebrations & Challenges
What has been your greatest celebration?
Your greatest challenge?
Round Table RotationsMaking the Most of Evaluation
Welcome to the Activators of our Learning!
Dana Deines, Cedar Falls
Jen Lindaman, Ankeny
Joy Kelly, Bettendorf
Leadership-life Fit: Managing Your Time for a Better Fit
D.T. Magee, BoEE
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ORGANIZATION FOR ADMINISTRATORSLeadership-life Fit:
Managing Your Time for a Better Fit
D.T. MageeExecutive Director
Iowa Board of Educational Examiners@MageeDT @IowaBoEE
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Jim Collins – Good to Great
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Protect Your Time• Eliminate piles (your brain focuses on them)• Hold meetings outside your office• Hold standing meetings• Have a format for meetings• Write everything down (more on this later)• Know when you are most cognitively productive and
protect that time!• 8 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.?
• Use an electronic calendar with automated reminders
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Eliminate Distractions
• Schedule time for planning, preparation, project work, and activities you enjoy• Turn off social media and email alerts• Don’t take email breaks (they are a myth)• Use the delayed send email function (don’t allow
emails to become a chat session)• You may close your door
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Go VerticalTickler Folders
Standing Table and Desk
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Set Goals, Have a Plan of Action, and Create Organization Systems• What are your big rocks (most important goals)?• A journey of a thousand miles begins with one step
(Identify important smaller steps as you create your plan of action) • Read about how highly productive people manage
their time• Borrow ideas and systems
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Signature Tool
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Signature Tool Automation
• Google Docs• Evernote• OneNote (Microsoft)
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Declutter• Use tickler folders• Daily• Monthly• Alphabetize frequently used or important folders
• Have a signature tool• Automate your signature tool
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Read Frank Buck’s Book
• Get Organized!: Time Management for School Leaders
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Shallow work is what stops you from getting fired. Deep work gets you promoted.Cal Newport
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What are your tips?
Learning Community: Leadership Dilemma
Consultancy
Protocol Leader who has traveled the farthest will be
the first presenter
Timekeeper/facilitator will be the person to the left of the presenter
Presenter shares an overview of the dilemma and poses his/her focus question.
3 MINUTES
Protocol Consultancy Group asks clarifying questions –
those with brief, factual answers.
1 MINUTE
Consultancy Group asks probing questions: Worded to help presenter clarify and expand
his/her thinking about the dilemma presented to the group.
Help presenter analyze the dilemma.
2 MINUTES
Protocol Consultancy Group talks with each other about the
dilemma presented while the presenter listens and takes notes: What did we hear?
What didn’t we hear that might be relevant?
What assumptions seem to be operating?
What questions does the dilemma raise for us?
What do we think about the dilemma?
What might we do or try if faced with a similar dilemma? What have we done in similar situations?
5 MINUTES
Protocol Presenter reflects on what he/she heard and on
what he/she is now thinking, sharing with the group anything that particularly resonated during the consultancy.
5 MINUTES
Rotate to second presenter.
Looking Ahead and Wrapping Up
Feb. 2 – Effective Hiring in a System of Teacher Leadership
Feb. 6 – Investigating Bullying
Feb. 10 – Law Conference
Feb. 13 – EQ: The Other Smart
Evaluation:
http://bit.ly/APJan2015
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