“Preserve the Core” Presented by Michelle Aube-Barton

“Preserve the Core”

Presented by

Michelle Aube-Barton

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Learn what research says about maintaining a set of core values

Become aware of professional development opportunities that promote trust, teamwork, and thinking

Learn how the core values of trust, teamwork and thinking serve as an anchor of success at Chester E. Jordan Elementary


Core Values

Do you have a set of core values that guide your decisions and

keep you grounded?


Preserve Core Values


Preserve the core and stimulate progress

Enduring great companies preserve their core values and purpose while their business strategies and operating practices endlessly adapt to a changing world.

Jim Collins, Good to Great


Core Values

• It is not about what core values you have, but that you have core values that you know, and that you build them explicitly into the organization, and that you preserve them over time.

• The notion of preserving your core ideology is a central feature of enduring great companies.

Jim Collins, Good To Great


Chester E. Jordan/Triangle

Faculty and Staff collectively developed our core values

Brainstormed, grouped the values together

Chose 3 values framed around the triangle


Living by Core Values

Trust

Teamwork Thinking

Our Pathway to Success


Achieving Excellence by promoting Trust, Teamwork, and Thinking

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Reflection

• Take a moment to think about a mentor, supervisor, former principal, coach, boss who has made a difference in your life

• What might be some qualities that they possessed that contributed to your special relationship?

• Turn to elbow partner and discuss


Did you Trust that person?

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TRUST

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Trust and Rapport

What might be some types of behaviors you would see and hear in a school where trust is present?


Cognitive Coaching (8 day training)

The mission of Cognitive Coaching is to produce self-directed persons with the cognitive capacity for high performance, both interdependently and as members of a community

Arthur Costa and Robert J. Garmston, Cognitive Coaching


The Coach

• Skilled at constructing and posing questions with the intention of engaging and transforming thought

• They employ nonjudgmental response behaviors to establish and maintain trust

• Use non-verbal behaviors to maintain rapport


Coaching

Planning conversation

Reflective conversation

Problem resolving conversation


Building Trust


Relational Trust (13 behaviors)

Straight TalkDemonstrate RespectCreate transparency Right wrongs with restitutionShow loyaltyDeliver resultsGet better Stephen Covey, The Speed of Trust


Relational Trust

Confront reality

Clarify expectations

Practice accountability

Listen first

Keep commitmentsExtend trust Stephen Covey, The Speed of Trust


Demonstrate Respect

“You can judge a person’s character by the way he treats

people who can’t help him or hurt him.”

Anonymous


Actions That Matter


Candy Grams


Candy Grams to build trust• I “mint” to tell you how much I appreciate you!• You deserve an extra “pay day”!• Thanks for helping during the “crunch”!• You surely are a “joy” to work with!• You are a valuable player on the team!• You “SKOR” high in my book! • You are “numero U-NO”!• Thanks for going the “EXTRA” mile!


Demonstrate Respect

• Genuinely care for others• Treat everyone with respect, especially those

who can’t do anything for you• Show kindness in the little things• Call people, write thank-you notes, e-mails, send

candy grams, acknowledge publicly• LISTEN


Listening

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Listening is hard work!

• Self-management• Stop what you are doing• Stop talking• Stop the monologue that may be running

through our mind• Stop thinking ahead to what you are going to say

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Listening Set-Asides

Autobiographical

Inquisitive

Solution

Arthur Costa and Robert J. Garmston, Cognitive Coaching


Listening

“Many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request.”

Phillip Standhope Earl of Chesterfield


Building Trust

People want more than a pay check for coming to work: They want to know that their efforts are valued and the sacrifices they make for their employer are appreciated!

Travis Brandberry and Jean Greaves, The Emotional Quick Book


Building Engaged Schools by Gary Gordon

“In our efforts to create the best possible schools for America’s kids, we’ve allowed process concerns such as standards, curriculum, and testing to overshadow the importance of people”


Gallup’s Workplace Research

• 3 decades of studies have taught Gallup researchers much about the qualities and characteristics of a healthy workplace!

• The most significant results: 1 the leader plays a critical role and 2) employee satisfaction is related to the culture and climate of the organization Gary Gordon, Building Engaged

Schools


The Good News!

• Local workgroup conditions aren’t that difficult to assess and change

• And doing so affects employee’s satisfaction, loyalty, and pride

Gary Gordon, Building Engaged Schools, pg. 225


Gallop’s Critical Twelve

• Do I know what is expected of me at work?

• Do I have the materials and equipment I need to do my work right?

• At work, do I have the opportunity to do what I do best every day?


The Critical Twelve

• In the last seven days, have I received recognition or praise for doing good work?

• Does my supervisor, or someone at work, seem to care about me as a person?

• Is there someone at work who encourages my development?


The Critical Twelve

• At work, do my opinions seem to count?

• Does the mission/purpose of my company make me feel my job is important?

• Are my co-workers committed to doing their work?


The Critical Twelve

• Do I have a best friend at work?

• In the last six months, has someone at work talked ot me about my progress?

• This last year, have I had an opportunity at work to learn and grow?


The Critical Twelve

• Intended to gauge the overall culture and climate of the

workplace


for a cause• Enlist the support of specialty

faculty and staff to mentor an at risk child

• Builds child’s self-esteem• Promotes trust among staff,

parents, and students• Spend 20 minutes twice a

week making a connection• Read, eat lunch together,

talk, tutor



Family Night


Family Night


Family Night


Enlist the support of community members


Community Math

Enlist the support of your local grocery stores to donate the weekly expired advertisements

Use them with parents and students to promote problem solving

Provide them to parents to use at home


TEAMWORK

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Teamwork

Whatever we have accomplished has been because other people have

helped us.

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Adaptive Schools (2 days)

• The mission of Adaptive Schools is to help schools develop the technical and social resources to realize continuing student improvement

• It provides skill development in:• Dialogue, discussion, exceptional

meeting management, advocacy, inquiry, norms of collaboration


Strategies and Structures that support teamwork and

collaboration

• Hand signal

• Group norms

• Agenda

• First Word


Teamwork


Data Driven Dialogue Professional Development

• Practical structure for using data• Model for guiding data driven

dialogue• Tools for mediating productive

group learning, planning, and problem solving

Bruce Welman and Laura Lipton


Sharing benchmark results

Each grade level was asked to make predictions on how they did and why

Responses: limited materials, new students,Students coming from different states Predictions were recorded to honor and value their

perspectivesShared data Asked what could we learn from the data


• Commitment to team purpose, goals, and approach

• Mutual accountability and trust

• Sharing Best Practices

• Grade Level

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How do we want each student to learn?

Teacher Teams are Based on


Placement Cards

Help us create balanced classes

by gender, number, ability,

and needs


Positive Behavior Support TEAM

Prevention

Multi-tiered support

Data-based decision making


Jordan’s Expectations


Jordan’s Expectations


Jordan’s expectations


Jordan’s expectations


Class Profiling


Thoughtful Thursdays Extended Time for teachers to look at student

assessment and modify lesson plans

Student Name

Grade Level - Weekly Assessments#1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8 #9


Thoughtful Thursdays weekly assessment planning

• Look for patterns • Plan interventions• Create flipcharts for the

IWB• Look for other instructional

strategies to support students who are exhibiting difficulty


THINKING

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Thinking


Habits of Mind

• Habits of Mind aid students in schools and adults in every day life as they are challenged by problems and enigmas for which there solutions are not immediately apparent

• Arthur Costa and Bena Kalleck


Habits of Mind• Persisting• Managing impulsivity• Listening with understanding and empathy• Thinking flexibly• Thinking about thinking (Metacognition)• Striving for Accuracy• Questioning and posing problems• Applying past knowledge


Habits of Mind

• Thinking and communicating with clarity and precision• Gathering data through all senses• Creating, imagining, innovating• Responding with wonderment and awe• Taking responsible risks• Finding Humor• Thinking interdependently• Remaining open to continuous learning


In what ways have the Habits of Mind helped you as a student?


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What Students Want from Teachers• Take Me Seriously• Challenge Me to Think• Nurture My Self-Respect• Show Me I Can Make a Difference• Let Me Do It My Way• Point Me Toward My Goals


“PAWS” to Think Reflection

• Without blaming others describe or draw what you did.

• Explain in your own words or draw a picture of what you could have done.

• What Habit(s) of Mind will you remember to use if this situation should happen again?


Remain open to continuous learning

• We encourage students to set their own goals

• They rate their effort• Work at improving


HABITS

Habit is a Cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we can not break it.

Horace Mann, American Educator, 1796-1859


Questioning to promote thinking

Use of pluralsUse of positive pre-suppositionsUse of tentative languageExample:What might be some strategies that you can

consider as you think through this problem?


Homework Hut/Math Masters


Websites for Math MastersMath Magician Games (from the Oswego City School District)

http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/Mathmagician/cathymath.html


Professor “Lionstein” • Asks a scientific question each week

over announcements that promotes higher order thinking

• Students answer questions using picture, words, and numbers

• Winners are rewarded each week


Professor Lionstein

A way to motivate students to think about science and math in a fun way.

Apply past knowledge to new learning.

Students placed two identical toy cars on these wooden ramps. The students let the cars roll down the ramps. This experiment most likely tests the hypothesis that —

A. ramps made of wood make cars roll fasterB. the height of the ramp makes the cars roll fasterC. the tires make the cars roll fasterD. plastic cars are faster than metal cars

Level 1, TEK 5.2A, TAKS 2003


Professor Lionstein

A way to motivate students to think about science and math in a fun way

Apply past knowledge to new learning


Book of the Month

• Each grade level selects a book that is shared each month (Monthly book launch)

• Each teacher is provided a copy of the book to share with students

• Students respond to the read a loud in a variety of ways (Pictures, poems, writing, connections)

• Common thread of Literature through out the school

• Connect the Habits of Mind to theme of book


Books of the Month


Books of the Month


Living by Core Values

Trust

Teamwork Thinking

Our Pathway to Success


Leadership

Go to the people.Learn from them, love them.

Build on what they have.But the best leaders, when their task is

accomplished, and their work is done, The people will remark:

“We have done it ourselves”

Chinese Proverb


As leaders our goal should be:

• To empower others to become leaders• Promote trusting, high-performance

relationships• Create the conditions for everyone to succeed• Help all employees find meaning in order to fulfill

their own goals and those of the organization


Thank you!

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“Preserve the Core” Presented by Michelle Aube-Barton