Working with Your M, TLD August 3, 2011. 2 First 8 Weeks Priorities for CMs 1. Forging authentic relationships with students, families, colleagues and.

Working with Your M, TLD

August 3, 2011

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First 8 Weeks Priorities for CMs

1. Forging authentic relationships with students, families, colleagues and Teach For America staff

• Beginning with our work today

2. Establishing a transformative vision/big goal and beginning to invest their students/influencers

3. Independently pursuing the learning, solutions and resources they need to have a meaningful instructional start to the year

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Getting to Know Me: 5 Fun Facts

• I proudly hail from Spokane, Wa

• I bleed Hoya Blue!

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Getting to Know Me

• I have my Masters in Teaching, Secondary English from Johns Hopkins University

• I love discovering restaurants in Baltimore and testing recipes at home

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Most Importantly…I am a teacher!

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My Vision

My Story: Growing up, I … had no understanding of the ways my family’s passion for learning and their support of my own educational growth would infuse my values and priorities as an adult.

On the personal level: The problem-solvers, innovators, and trail-blazers who will shape our future are now students in the classrooms of our Corps Members. …The innocence of these children demands that we work tirelessly to even the playing field and give everyone a choice about their future.

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My Vision, Cont’d

On the CM level: CMs will achieve transformational change in all of their classes and will undertake personal journeys to grow their own understanding of the complexities of the achievement gap. I will spark and inspire a long-lasting leadership mindset that will give my CMs the confidence to set their students on new life paths and to catalyze change that will end educational inequity on a national scale.

On the student level: In a CMs classroom, students will acquire the skills, the savvy, and the perseverance to overcome stereotypes about students of color and students from low income communities and live the lives they deserve.

On the national level: This state of disparity in educational access is not functional for our cities or our nation long-term. All of our children, … deserve opportunities and choices for their futures.

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Getting to know you!

• Fill out an Index Card with this information– Full Name (and name you’d prefer to be called)– Hometown– College and Major – School Placement (content and grade level)– Favorite guilty pleasure TV show (be prepared to share

out)

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The Manager, Teacher Leadership Development (M,TLD) Role

CMA M, TLD

Time Frame 5 weeks 2 years (!)

Ratio 1:12 1:39

School Based 1 school 11 schools

Frequency of Observations

Weekly extended & briefs

~ biweekly

Type of solutions Direct, immediate, resource based

Help designing professional development plan

Availability On campus, “on call’

At school on scheduled days, qualified “on call”

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Scope of the M, TLD Role

A Manager, Teacher Leadership Development wears many hats and is involved in many aspects of our regional and national organization.

Engages in catalytic relationships with

CMs to push their development and drive towards

academic gains

Builds relationshipswith district partners,

including principals

Manages one-two regional projects,

(e.g. 100 Days Celebration,Induction, Alumni Induction)

Develops and executesCM professional development,

sometimes with Director ofTeaching and Learning

Supportsnewly matriculated

corps members Interviews applicants for next year’s corps

Helps Development Team as needed

Engages in regionaland national trainingsto develop our own

competencies

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Measures of Success for the M,TLD

• CM Effectiveness– Are you working towards transformational

student achievement?

• CM Retention– Will you be there to realize transformational

student achievement?

• CM Strength Measure– Are you happy while working towards

transformational student achievement?

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An M, TLD’s Many Levers and Impacts

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View of the Role of the M, TLD

Coach- Instructiona

l- Problem

solve- Think

through challenging situations

- Build leadership

Manager- Execute team- Facilitate

professional development/ collaboration

- Offer feedback

Cheerleader

- Build confidence

- Push you to be asset based and positive

- Give perspective

Partner- Thought

partner- Make sure

you feel supported- personally & professionally

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Where we’re headed

• I will synthesize the ideas here and in our Beginning of Year Conversations to create our Team Vision– The Why– Be thinking of a team name!

• I will synthesize our norms to create standards that will apply to all interactions across our team– The What

• I will add a list of the nitty-gritty expectations to ensure supportive, authentic relationships for all– The How

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Our Team Vision

• How do you envision living out this core value as an M,TLD group?

• How can our team create a vision that inspires our work together?

Team: We value and care about each other, operate with a generosity of spirit, and have fun in the process of working together. To maximize our collective impact, we inspire, challenge, and support each other to be our best and sustain our effort.

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Team Operating Norms

CM M, TLD

CM CM CM M, TLD

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Closing and Next Steps:

• Please complete the survey I sent you via email and review the guiding questions for your own vision.

• Trust the journey• Challenge your thinking• Ask questions and follow up• Keep your students top of mind

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Inspiration

“Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.” Teddy Roosevelt

"If there's going to be joy and laughter and poetry and music at the end of the revolution, there needs to be joy and laugher and poetry and music along the way." Gloria Steinem