Learning-Focused Leadership

LEARNING-FOCUSED LEADERSHIPAngela Peery, Ed. D.

drangelapeery@gmail.com

MaterialsHandouts provided in hard copy and electronically

Powerpoint can be sent electronically after our session

Long-term coaching available

Other services described at drangelapeery.com

LEARNING FROM EXPERTSMichael FullanDouglas ReevesLiz Wiseman

THE POWER OF METAPHORWhen you’re leading – and you’re at your best – what are you most like?

DOUGLAS REEVES

LEADERSHIP FOCUS ImpactLeverage Implementation

Impact

WHICH ACTIONS HAVE THE HIGHEST IMPACT? Using tracking or ability grouping

Using mastery learning Using effective feedback Assigning homework Using cooperative learning Using effective questioning Using peer tutoring Explicitly teaching vocabulary

Using team teaching

Using 1:1 ratio for devices (for ex., every student has an iPad)

Accelerating gifted students Teaching character/values Retaining a student in a grade

Using thematic or interdisciplinary instruction

Teaching for metacognition Maintaining small class sizes

Leverage

Implementation

Initiative FatigueResearchers caution against adopting too many initiatives that detract from the improvement focus on the building and result in “initiative fatigue.”

Elmore, 2006; Fullan, 2010; Reeves, 2006

EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP PRACTICES

Focus

MonitoringEfficacy

Leadership DimensionsStudent-Centered Leadership (V. Robinson, 2011)

Dimension Rank OrderEstablishing goals and expectationsResourcing strategically

Ensuring quality teaching

Leading teacher learning and development

Ensuring an orderly and safe environment

RESEARCH

Safe environment

Teacher learning

Quality teaching

Resources

Goals and expectations

0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9

Student-Centered Leadership (V. Robinson, 2011)

Effect Size

MICHAEL FULLAN

FROM MICHAEL FULLAN

“The goal is not to innovate the most. Innovating selectively with coherence is better.”

“Never a checklist, always complexity.”

Professional Capital

Professional Capital

Decisional

SocialHuman

ACTIVITY: (STANDING) COMMUNITY CIRCLE

Community Circle

LIZ WISEMAN

MULTIPLIERS

They attract and optimize talent They require people’s best thinking They extend challenges They debate decisions They instill accountability

Do you think you’ve had a multiplier for a supervisor before? Describe that person.

Activity: Double Bubble Map

HOW HAVE YOU HELPED OTHERS

GROW? HAVE YOU BEEN A

MULTIPLIER?

ACTIVITY: TOP THREEWhat three points or focus areas do you want to keep in mind as you begin crafting your 100-day action plan?

Let’s create an action

plan…