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National Summit on Educator Effectiveness
April 29, 2011
Circe Stumbo, President, and Deanna Hill, Senior Policy Analyst, West Wind Education Policy
Exercising Leadership for Systems Change
Who We Are
• West Wind Education Policy Inc. is based in Iowa City, IA; our work is national in scope
• We work to build capacity of state leaders to imagine and enact a public K-12 education system that overcomes historic and persistent inequities and engages each and every child in learning
Questions We Ask
• What is the role of policy?
– What policies do we believe will impact systems change?
• What is the role of leadership?
– How do we exercise leadership to impact systems change?
Themes from this morning
• We have policies we need, but we aren’t taking advantage of them
• There are policies in our way—or we perceive they are in our way
• We need to create new policies
• Our mindset about what “school” is limits us
Questions We Ask
• What is our vision for learning, teaching, and leading?
• What does it mean to be effective within the system we envision?
What does effective learning, teaching, and leading look like?
Questions We Ask
• If we all agree on the vision…how do we get from here to there and take it to scale?
• How do you change a system that has to keep moving?
(Can’t write a regulation and wave a wand and suddenly be there)
Questions We Ask
• What are the components of a system to support educator effectiveness?
• How do our education workforce policies help to achieve that vision (or hinder)?
• What is the role of the state?
Who We Draw On When Helping States Answer Those Questions• Learning organizations (Senge) and
systems thinking (Wheatley)
• Adaptive leadership (Heifetz)
• Implementation Science and Scaling Up (Fixsen & Blasé)
• Critical Race Theory (Ladson-Billings & Tate)
• Direct Action Organizing (Midwest Academy)
Discussion
Gene Wilhoit said:– “We are facing systemic challenges”– “We need to address them
systemically”
• Do you agree? • What does that mean for your
work?
Key State Challenges Identified at the Summit
Challenges
Challenges
• Articulating a coherent and comprehensive vision that drives the work
• How to shift the leading drivers for reform
• Leading through resistance to change
Visioning
Addressing the Challenges
Possible SCEE Steps
• Work through SCEE to articulate a common vision– Encompassing a “21st century” vision of
learning, teaching, and leading
– Providing a beacon, more than just the technical aspects of the system
• Resources: NCTAF, Houle, SCEE, CCSSO, states, Fullan,....
Strategically Choosing Lead Drivers for Reform
Addressing the Challenges
Fullan’s Wrong Drivers
• “‘Whole system reform’ is the name of the game and ‘drivers’ are those policy and strategy levers that have the least and best chance of driving successful reform.”
Source: Michael Fullan, Choosing the Wrong Drivers for Whole System Reform, page 3..
Fullan’s Wrong Drivers
• “A ‘wrong driver’ then is a deliberate policy force that has little chance of achieving the desired result, while a ‘right driver’ is one that ends up achieving better measurable results for students.”
Source: Michael Fullan, Choosing the Wrong Drivers for Whole System Reform, page 3.
Fullan’s Wrong Drivers
1. Accountability vs capacity building;
2. Individual vs group solutions;
3. Technology vs instruction;
4. Fragmented strategies vs integrated or systemic strategies.
Source: Michael Fullan, Choosing the Wrong Drivers for Whole System Reform.
Fullan’s Wrong Drivers
• “The four ‘wrong drivers’ are not forever wrong. They are just badly placed as lead drivers. The four ‘right drivers’ – capacity building, group work, pedagogy, and ‘systemness’ – are the anchors of whole system reform.”
Source: Michael Fullan, Choosing the Wrong Drivers for Whole System Reform, page 5.
Possible Next Steps
• Work through SCEE to better understand Fullan’s drivers and how strategically to shift the conversation about the drivers for reform
• Join in SCEE sub-group “deep dives” to work together to design a common, cross-state, whole system reform programs
Resistance to Change
Addressing the Challenges
Leading Through Resistance
• West Wind builds our work on the principles of Adaptive Leadership™ expanded from Heifetz and Linsky.
• We ask, “How might we forecast and diagnose resistance in order to help the system to change?”
Why Do People Resist Change?
• People by and large do not resist change—they resist: Loss Disloyalty Incompetence Uncertainty
Loss
Identity– Values
– Attitudes
– Beliefs
– Reputation
– Competence
Time
Resources
Comfort– Habits
– Order
– Expectations
– Certainty/Reliability
– Security
Job
Life
Incompetence
Challenging and re-defining… who I am, what I believe… what makes my life or my work
meaningful… what I know how to do
engenders a sense of incompetence about new processes, content, and behavior
Disloyalty
The process of becoming different can involve disloyalty
• The notion of the loss of one’s identity and becoming uncomfortable may feel like abandonment of and disloyalty to:• People • Concepts and Ideas• Practices
Uncertainty
• What if what we do doesn’t work?
(… especially when what we have been doing worked for most of us)
• What if there is no research base?
Potential Cross-State Deep-Dive Actions
through SCEE
Other Possible Solutions
Possible Deep Dives
• Marketing: Holding up real life examples of ways to achieve our vision
• Systems change study group– Systems thinking– Adaptive leadership– Implementation capacity– Scaling up
Questions to Leave You With
Questions We Ask
• What is *my role* in exercising leadership for educator effectiveness?
• What changes am *I willing to undergo* to improve student performance?
• What is it about *my own thinking* that allows the system to persist?
Questions We Ask
• What are our beliefs about the role of the state in promoting educator effectiveness?
• What is the state responsibility? • Who do we need to engage?
Why?
Questions We Ask
• What do we want the state department to do?
• What capacity do we have and what capacities can we develop?
West Wind Education Policy, Inc.
P: 877-354-9378
F: 319-248-0222
Email:
westwind@westwinded.com
Address: 1700 S. First Avenue,
Suite 17Iowa City, IA 52240-6036
Website: www.westwinded.com
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