Leadership: Session #4A

Goals for Session

• Explore enabling structures, conditions and processes for engaging in courageous

conversations – Focus: Curriculum Leadership

• Further develop facilitation skills – coaching moves question stems– conversation starters: engaging in courageous

conversations

• All ideas will be listened to carefully and responded to respectfully

• Everyone will have a voice• All questions and comments will be presented

with the intent to move the collective forward• Clarifying questions are welcome• Everyone will engage fully in the moment

Group Norms

7 Principles of Fierce Conversations• Master the courage to interrogate reality.

• Come out from behind yourself into the conversation and make it real.

• Be here, prepared to be nowhere else.

• Tackle your toughest challenge today.

• Obey your instincts.

• Take responsibility for your emotional wake.

• Let silence do the heavy lifting. Conversation Starters, page 22

PRIME Stages of LeadershipMinds On: A Focus on Curriculum

PRIME Curriculum Leadership• Review the PRIME

Curriculum Leadership indicators and leadership actions for the three stages of leadership (BLM L.1.4).

• Identify the top three actions across the three Curriculum Leadership Principles that you are currently engaged in as a leader.

• Place each red dot above a different action indicator. (We will create a bar graph.)

PRIME Curriculum Leadership: Data Wall

PRIME Curriculum Leadership: Data Wall• Trends? • Questions? • Comments?

• We will revisit the data wall at the end of the day to consolidate our learning and consider next steps for leadership action.

Administrator Look-Fors for Effective Mathematics InstructionAction: Focused Breakout Area of Observation

Administrator Look-Fors for Effective Mathematics Instruction

Determining an Area of Focus• With your Cabin Buddies,

determine the area of focus for observation– select look-fors and

questions to be used– populate observation

template (BLM L.4A.2) – determine observation

format– determine Content-Focused

Breakout room(s) to visit

Observation

Observation DebriefConsolidation

Observation Debrief

• Triads: Sharing of evidence of lookfors during observation.

Observation Debrief• Which area of focus and lookfors did you use? • Which questions did you use? Why were these effective

[or not] during your observation?• What connections did you make to PRIME Curriculum

Leadership / 5 Core Leadership Capacities / SIP/BIP / Coaching Continuums?

• What enabling structures, conditions and processes are required to effectively create a culture of coaching?

• Which administrator actions are you considering in your effort to support effective mathematics instruction?

Evening Activity

Reflective Journal• How has my new learning shifted my thinking

related to…– PRIME Leadership Framework– 5 Core Leadership Capacities– School / Board Improvement Planning ?

• How will I bring this back to my school / board?