Summer Fun?

DOUGLAS SCHOOL DISTRICT

ADMINISTRATIVE COUNCIL

To share information to support your role as a school leader, manager, and decision

maker.

People – Character – Endeavor - Communication

Leadership Lessons

Character

Endeavor

Communication

Most Valuable, Favorite,

and Why?

How do we rehabilitate the Gulf of Mexico environmentally and economically?

How do we improve the physical and emotional safety of

learning environments within South Dakota’s

schools?

How do we best ensure that each student can read proficiently by

the end of third grade?

Public Problem

Facts MythsValue

s

Public Decision(Policy)

Fact: a verifiable statement of what is true

Myth: what people think is fact

Value: opinions about how things should be

Which questions were

the most difficult to

answer? Why?

Leading and Governing Associates

Phillip Boyle, Ph.D

Liberty

Prosperity

Community

Equality

Policy Decisio

ns

Competing Values

Sometimes people want to be free more than they want to be equal. Other times they want to be equal more than they want to be free.

Sometimes people want to be secure more than they want to be prosperous. Other times they want to be prosperous more than they want to be secure.

Prosperity

Equality

Community

Liberty

Consensus Defined

Consensus has been achieved when every person involved in the decision can say, “I believe this is the best decision we can arrive at for the organization at this time, and I will support its

implementation.”

Simply agreeing with a proposal is not true consensus.

Consensus implies commitment to a decision.

The Consensus Process

Define the Issue

Develop Criteria

Craft a Proposal

Test for Consensus

Agreement / Commitmen

t

Continue TCAP (Teacher Compensation Assistance Program) with the following revisions:

1. Allow reimbursement of tuition and fees to non-certified staff who are working toward teacher certification.

2. TCAP should support the district’s school improvement plan.

3. Allow districts to equally distribute the funds based on meeting or obtaining the district goal.

What values are involved in this case?How are the following values involved in this

case?

Liberty

Prosperity

Community

Equality

Policy Decision

s

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

Stephen CoveyThe Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

Which question(s) may be most useful to you during the

Back to School season?

“Live as though you’ll die tomorrow.

Learn as though you’ll live forever.”

John Wooden (1910 - 2010)

Your Leadership for This Year…

What are you

determined about?

What control

might you give up?

What will thrill you?