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Courageous Leadership

Dr. Jen Benkovitz, SafeSchoolsNC Board Member jenb@alumni.unc.edu @jbenkovitz

Susan Wells, Founder, TechTerraTM Training wellssusans@gmail.com @wellssusan

Making a Plan -- strategies and resources to directly identify and address inequitable practices and to promote positive, inclusive and safe school communities

#educatewithpride board@safeschoolsnc.org SafeSchoolsNC

Courageous Leadership

Dr. Jen Benkovitz, SafeSchoolsNC Board Member jenb@alumni.unc.edu @jbenkovitz

Susan Wells, Founder, TechTerraTM Training wellssusans@gmail.com @wellssusan

Making a Plan -- strategies and resources to directly identify and address inequitable practices and to promote positive, inclusive and safe school communities

Courageous LeadershipGuiding Questions

Why is this work important?What implications does the research have for our leadership

in schools/school systems? How can we directly identify and address inequitable

practices?How can we promote positive, inclusive and safe school

communities?What steps can we take when we return to our schools/school

systems?

Courageous LeadershipIntroductions

Name

Role

What brings you here today?

What are your hopes for our time together?

What’s difficult or scary for you about discussing LGBT topics in your school community/classrooms?

Courageous LeadershipSharing Our Stories (Microlab)

Why is it important to talk about LGBT topics in your school community/classrooms?

How do you think your students and staff know what they know about LGBT people?

Why is this work important to you?

Consider the following while watching the video clips and discuss with your table group.

What surprises you or stands out for you?

What are the implications for your own work with staff and students?

What can we learn from these children?

Video 1: What Do You Know? 6-12 Year Olds Talk About Gays and Lesbians

Video 2: LGBT HS Students Share Their Experiences

Courageous LeadershipUnderstanding the Issues - Student Perspectives (Making Meaning)

Consider the following while reviewing the Research handouts and discuss with your table group.

What do you see?

What questions does this text raise for you?

What is significant about this text?

How might this text influence your work as an administrator?

Courageous LeadershipUnderstanding the Issues - Reviewing the Research (Making Meaning)

After reading your resource handouts:

Summarize

Provide 2-3 examples

Conduct a “gallery rotation.”

What do you notice?

Courageous LeadershipResource Dive (Gallery Rotation)

Project into the future and thoroughly describe what it looks, sounds and feels like having accomplished your goals and vision. Speak in present tense as this has already happened.

Courageous LeadershipMaking a Plan (Back to the Future)

Look back from your projected future and describe how it looked when you started? Speak in past tense.

Connect your projected future to the past by explicitly answering “how” you moved your organization from the past to the projected future. Speak in past tense.

Gallery Rotation

With your table group, brainstorm some challenges that existed in accomplishing your vision (projected future)? Choose one and write it at the top of your chart paper.

As you move around the room and read the challenges, list suggestions in the remaining space.

Return to your original chart paper and review solutions.

Debrief

Courageous LeadershipMaking a Plan, continued: Challenges and Solutions

Connections Guidelines: Speak if you want. Don’t speak if you don’t want to. Speak only once until everyone who wants to has had a chance to speak. Listen and note what people say, but do not respond.

Questions for consideration:

What was comforting/comfortable?

What did you find challenging?

What are you wondering about?

What do you want to remember?

What one step can you commit to upon returning your school/school community?

Courageous LeadershipReflections (Connections)

Courageous LeadershipLinks to Session Resources

Videos Protocols Handouts & Protocols

1. What Do You Know? 6-12 Year Olds Talk About Gays and Lesbians

2. LGBT HS Students Share their Experiences

1. Microlab

2. Making Meaning

3. Back to the Future

4. Connections

1. http://tinyurl.com/cl-research

2. http://tinyurl.com/cl-resourcedoc

3. http://tinyurl.com/cl-protocols

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Courageous LeadershipContact Us

Dr. Jen Benkovitz, SafeSchools Board Member jenb@alumni.unc.edu @jbenkovitz

Susan Wells, Founder, TechTerraTM Training wellssusans@gmail.com @wellssusan