Learning Teaching and Family Support Retreat March 25, 2014 9:00 am – 3:30 pm Wiki site .

Learning Teaching and Family Support Retreat

March 25, 2014

9:00 am – 3:30 pm

Wiki site http://ltfsleadership.wikispaces.com

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

9:30 - 10:00              Welcome and Outcomes

10:00 - 10:45            Leadership Problems of Practice using the Consultancy Protocol

10:45- 11:30             BUILD: 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

Best Practices: Learn from each other by sharing best practices and replicating success

Uphold Whole Child Tenets: Healthy, safe, engaged, supported and challenged youth

Instructional Core: Build capacity around the instructional core of effective teaching, relevant content and student engagement

Lead with Racial Equity

Data 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

https://progress.psesd.org

LUNCH

Moments of Impact

Connecting to 5D – Purpose

Last Time Today

How

Connecting to 5D - Purpose

Last time

What

Today

HOW

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?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AA1NfbAvUSY

Next Steps

Book Study Optional Purchase the book look for details via email

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?