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Building Distributed Leadership in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia
Building Action Plans
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Building Distributed Leadership in the Archdiocese of PhiladelphiaBuilding Action Plans
With assistance from University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education, Dr. James O’Toole, Project Co-Director
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Think about it
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Objectives
• Put into action what you learned so that you make a difference.
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Time for Leadership Action
• Need an individual Action Plan to put knowledge to use for Instructional Improvement
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What is this?
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• Who can help each individual with his/her Action Plan?
• What information do I need to construct an Action Plan?WHO CAN
HELP? WHAT INFO DO I NEED?
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• The Team Review (document is in folder).
• Outline of what to look for in an Action Plan with a Performance Score.
• Notes section offers open ended feedback to improve team member’s proposal.• Each Action Plan is shared and the
Team Review is discussed in a team meeting.
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How Are You Doing?
• Monitoring Tool• Completed at least “quarterly” and
shared/discussed with team members (all receive copies)
• Trust/Honesty are Important
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What Do You Need?
•Information & Data•SIP, PLN, PLC, Terra Nova – obtain from schools•Others?
•“Action” to Complete•Targeted Outcome
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The Logic of the Annenberg Distributed Leadership Program
Contextual Factors
Teacher Leadership in Instructional Improvement
School Culture and Instructional Improvement
Student Outcomes
Community Characteristics
Organizational Culture
Planning and selecting curriculum materials and course
content
Instructional Leadership
Instructional strategies for the
subject(s) you teachStudent Engagement Grades
School Characteristics
Collective Responsibility
Instructional strategies to assist low performing
students
Test scores
Collaborative Planning
Classroom management
AttendanceDisciplinary
problems
Family Characteristics
Structured Training Ongoing Coaching
Teacher-teacher and Teacher-
principal Leadership
Teams
Assessing students’ understanding of the subject(s) you teach
Attention in classSchool persistence
and completion (high school)
InnovationHomework completion
Distributed School Leadership Program
Student Characteristics
The Program Logic
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Marshall Memo 180 (April 9, 2007)
Finding the Right Balance Between Literary Classics and Newer Books
“The themes are kind of dead now,” says Evanston Township High School student Chanelle Brown, “and I don’t feel like any of the stories apply to me . . . Maybe we can relate to books more if they’re about real things we’re dealing with, or maybe they will make me stretch my mind so I can understand other people’s problems more.”
Jeffrey Wilhem, Boise State University – In one class in his study that had been assigned Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, none of the students had actually read the play, but had come up with 30 different ways to fool the teacher into thinking they had.
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Center Your Action Plan Around a Topic that interests you while matching success indicators and goals of the
Distributed Leadership Initiative and the
Archdiocese of Philadelphia.
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Focus
Key is to focus the Action Plan on:• Student learning by helping teams ensure that
students achieve the intended outcomes of their schooling
• Student learning is the focus when teams know what each student needs to learn
• After agreeing on the “what” of learning, teams question: “How will we know whether students have learned the essential material?”
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Focus
• All need help writing specific and measurable team improvement goals that focus on student learning rather than the teams activities.
• All need encouragement, recognition, and celebration as they progress.
• All need someone to confront those individuals or teams of teachers who failed to fulfill their responsibility.
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Focus
• “By focusing on learning, today's school leaders shift both their own focus and that of the school community from inputs to outcomes and from intentions to results.”
• “Schools need principal (team) leadership as much as ever”
• “But only those who understand that the essence of their job is promoting student and teacher learning will be able to provide their leadership.”
Beyond Distributed Leadership: The Learning-Centered Principal,
Richard DuFour
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Action Plan Feedback
David Baugh, Principal of Duckrey Elementary School, Cohort 1, Principal’s Report, January 2008
“Action Plans have emerged as a really good tool to keep the SIP alive. They have turned out to be a vital tool in supporting our initiatives. Perhaps the best description for this is that SIP is a potluck dinner and the action plans are a way of making sure the dinner occurs and that all needs are met.”
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You are Ready to SOAR!! (like an Eagle)
GO FOR IT!!