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Presenter
Dr. Carolyn J. Downey
Palo Verde Associates
7450 Olivetas Avenue, Unit 40
La Jolla, CA, 92037, USA
NESA Fall Conference
October 2011
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POSSIBLE SESSION OUTCOMES
!! Discuss issues participants have regarding the walk-through and reflective conversation and respond to those issues.
Depending upon conversation of group---
!! Describe the need for a different supervisory process than most administrators use.
!! Specify how the Downey walk-through structure and reflective conversation fits into a different type of supervisory process.
!! Describe misconceptions and misapplication of the Downey approach.
!! Urge administrators to use a collaborative and reflective approach to supervision and the teacher appraisal process.
Outcome 1
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INFORMAL
CONVERSATION
Let’s begin by discussing
issues/questions you
have regarding the walk-
through and reflective
conversation which I
suggest be used.
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Outcome 2
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SUPERVISION? !!What your role as a supervisor
(whether school-based or district-
based)?
–!NOT JUST WALK-THROUGHS—
ENTIRE SUPERVISORY PROCESS
!!How important is this role
responsibility in relation to other
roles of administrators?
!!Discuss with learning partner or
table team.
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PURPOSE OF
THREE-MINUTES WALK-
THROUGH TRAINING
APPROACH To provide principals, assistant principals, mentor teachers, and others who coach teachers strategies for using:
(1) a 5-step structured classroom observation informal walk through approach, and
(2) reflective inquiry in follow-up conversations
as a vehicle for maximizing student achievement.
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DOWNEY’S REAL
PURPOSE !! To change the relationship paradigm of
principal-teacher supervision and the teacher-appraisal process.
!! To move to collaborative interdependent reflective inquiry conversations between principal and teacher and teacher and teacher.
!! Help administrators have a set of beliefs that are built around how people grow/change in their practices and be willing to risk changing their own behavior to being capacity builders.
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Garmston (2000)
!! Defines feedback as “observations from
others about one’s performance,
particularly when the information is
judgmental, (‘You made a good synthesis
when…’) or comes with advice (‘Next time
you might…’).”
!! “When mentors, coaches, and supervisors
report their observations to teachers, they
build the teacher’s dependence on that
input and that actually robs the teacher of
working the internal muscles necessary to
improve their ability to self-reflect.”
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Sanford (1995) Feedback
!! “External feedback actually reduces the capacity for accurate self-reflection.”
!! Continuing feedback reinforces the expectation that others will and should tell us how we are doing and reduces our capacity to be self-reflective and self-accountable….
!! Research suggests that externally-introduced feedback seems to interfere with learning to manage oneself
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Garmston (2000)
Two Feedback Myths
(teachers and students)
!!Myth #1: Feedback causes people
to see themselves more accurately.
!!Myth #2: Feedback improves team
effectiveness.
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DuPont and Colgate-Palmolive
!! Team members listened to feedback about how to be better workers.
!! Feedback came from peers, supervisors, and/or subordinates.
!! Goals were to understand one’s impact on others and to improve one’s ability to work with others.
!! However, what occurred was that the feedback undermined these goals and was negative in some cases.
!! The feedback model was not found to effect the desired changes in employee growth.
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SUPERVISION IS A
HUMAN
ENTERPRISE
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Theory X versus Theory Y Drucker, 1974
Theory X
!! belief that people have to be coerced into doing a good job, do not want to work, and lack internal motivation to grow;
!! therefore, supervision is viewed as the means by which employees are forced to work.
Theory Y
!! based on the belief that people want to do a good job, want to work, and have an internal motivation to grown and learn
!! Therefore, supervision is viewed as a. means by which we enhance an employee’s learning and growth in one’s practice (Downey)
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EVALUATION
Formative vs. Summative
!!On-going
!!Fluid
!!Growth
!!Coach
!! Improvements
!!Advocate
!!Event
!!Static
!!Status
!!Judge
!!Contract
!!Neutral
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Peterson 2000
!!Researchers and scholars are in
agreement that the evaluation
process as we know it is insufficient
and ineffective, and, unfortunately,
this practice has been quietly
accepted
!!Quotes from Peterson from noted
researchers
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Medley & Coker, 1987
!! To this day, almost all educational personnel decisions are based on judgments which, according to the research, are only slightly more accurate than they would be if they were based on pure chance (p. 243)
!! [Twelve studies from 1921 to 1959] reached the same conclusion: that the correlation between the average principal’s ratings of teacher performance and direct measures of teacher effectiveness were near zero (p 242)
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More Quotes
!!Scriven, 1981, pp. 244, 251
Teacher evaluation is a disaster. The practices are shoddy and the principles are unclear.…
!!Stodolsky, 1984, p. 17
Evaluators are mistaken if they assume they are observing the typical behavior of a…teacher with the usual [evaluation] procedure.
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Wise, Darling-Hammond,
McLaughlin, & Bernstein,
1984, p. 22
!!Almost all respondents [to a survey of 32 district central offices]…felt that principals lacked sufficient resolve and competence to evaluate accurately.
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Johnson, 1990, P. 266 !! Teachers interviewed for this study
roundly criticized formal
supervision and evaluation practices…
[saying] that they are… not effective for
improvement.…
!! Administrators are rarely prepared to
offer…useful advice,…virtually never…
providing an opportunity for learning
!! ….Very good teachers…regard the
practice as an institutional obligation to
be endured rather than an opportunity to
be seized.
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Wolf, 1973, p. 160 !!Teachers mistrust evaluation. They
feel that current…techniques fall short of collecting information that accurately characterizes… performance.
!!They perceive…rating as depending more on the idiosyncrasies of the [evaluator] than on their own behavior in the classroom.
!!Teachers see nothing to be gained from evaluation.
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Frase 2004 Teacher evaluation systems are often
!!not sensitive to particular teaching settings,
!!are biased, superficial, and demoralizing,
!!are neither credible nor reliable,
!!are not focused on defensible criteria,
!!are not grounded in clear rationale and policy, and
!! most importantly, are not influential (Shinkfield & Stufflebeam, 1995).
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YOUR THOUGHTS
!! What are your findings?
!! What are your staff thinking?
!! Do you think any changes need to be made in the processes of your appraisal systems? In carrying it out?
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Effective Evaluation
Systems (Colby, Bradshaw,
& Joyner 2002)
!!District commitment to allocation of resources
!!District capacity for change
!!Teacher evaluation as it relates to the methods and procedures of process
!!How the evaluation environment supports professional development.
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CARL GLICKMAN
Shift away from conventional or
congenial supervision toward collegial
supervision !! Collegial rather than a hierarchical
relationship between teachers and
supervisors
!! Focus on teacher development rather than
teacher conformity
!! Facilitation of teachers collaborating with
each other in instructional improvement
efforts
!! Teacher involvement in on-going reflective
inquiry
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Outcome 3
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ULTIMATE GOAL: TO INFLUENCE...
!!Reflective, self-directed, self analytical, interdependent teachers who examine their own practices (even those who initially are at the dependent level).
!!Teachers continually willing to improve their teaching.
!!Teachers who are committed to teaching the district curriculum and working for ever higher student achievement.
DOWNEY HISTORY/RATIONALE
Walk-Throughs
!!Symbolic to Growth Focus
!!Hunter to Costa (Differentiation)
!!Direct to Indirect
Hunter Costa
Intervention Cognitive
!! Inspectional Reflective
Supervision Supervision
!! Then Glickman and Developmental
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Flow of Supervisor/Employee Relationships
Interdependent!
Independent!
Dependent"
Adult-Adult!
Adult- Adolescent!
Adult-Child!
Berne#s Trans-!
actional Analysis!
Covey#s Stages!
Of Dependency"
Collaborative!
(Downey)"
Indirect!
(Costa)!
Direct!
(Hunter)"
Type of Dialogue !
Interaction!
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PERCEPTION OF
PERSON’S CAPACITY !!Passive, capable, accepting, not initiate
–! TELL
!!Passive, have to be motivated, goal conflicts
–! SELL
!!Decision makers, problem solvers
–!FACILITATE, ENHANCE, COLLABORATE, ENCOURAGE REFLECTION
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Paradigm Shift
CONVENTIONAL
!!Controlling environment
!!Hierarchical Structure
!!Rewards and punishments
!!Extrinsic motivation
!!Supervisor control
COLLEGIAL
!!Growth environment
!! Learning Community
!!Recognition for growth
!! Intrinsic motivation
!! Inner locus of control
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Paradigm Continued CONVENTIONAL
!! Default mentality to others deciding and I follow
!! Origin of Behavior—Others
!! Boss-manager
!! Work as task
!! Approval
!! Others for efficacy
COLLEGIAL
!! Self Governing by increasing knowledge
!! Origin of Behavior—Self
!! Lead-manager
!! Work as joy
!! Increase capacity
!! Self efficacy
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ULTIMATE PURPOSE OF INTERACTION!
ON-GOING!
SELF-ANALYSIS!
PROFESSIONAL
GROWTH TARGETS !FOR IMPROVING
PRACTICE!
SEARCH FOR
RESEARCHED PRACTICES!
THE REFLECTIVE TEACHER!
Collaborative Interactions !
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Outcome 4
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Walk-Throughs
and Follow-up Conversations
!! Short 2-4 minute informal observations
!! Data/Observation 1-2 minutes
–!Primary focus
•!Curriculum decisions
•! Instructional decisions
!! Consideration of possible follow-up
conversation 1-2 minutes
!! Follow-up conversations 5-10 minutes
–!short one-on-one ”reflective" opportunities
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STEPS IN OBSERVATION #1. Management: Orientation of Student
to the Work
#2. Curriculum: Determine Curricular Objectives and Alignment to District Curriculum and Identify Possible Decision Points for Reflection
#3. Instruction: Note Instructional Practices Used and Identify Possible Decision Points for Reflection
#4. [IF TIME] “Walk-the-Walls:” for more Curricular and Instructional Decisions
#5. Safety and Facilities: Happens Naturally © 2011 PVA & CMSi
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Some Thoughts about the 5
Step Observation Structure
!!Step 1 and 5 are red flags--would be direct
!!Step 1 is not about engagement strategies a teacher uses. This would be noted in Step 3.
!!Step 1 has always been about attending behavior—classroom) –!Are the students doing what the
teacher has asked them to do.
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KEY PROCESSES
!! INFORMAL INTERACTIONS
!!NO FORMS OR CHECKLISTS
!!JOYFUL INTERACTION
!!DIGNITY OF PROFESSIONAL
ADULTS
!!NOT ANSWERING TO THE
PRINCIPAL BUT FOCUS ON
REFLECTIVE THOUGHT AND
REFLECTIVE PRACTICE.
INTERDEPENDENT: THE Reflective
Question ATTRIBUTES !! Decision (teacher as a decision-maker)
!! Choice (no one right answer)
!! Criteria Used (analysis cognition minimally)
!! About One’s Practice Not About This Lesson Observed (use present tense)
!! Many Situations/Contexts (plural)
!! Analysis, Synthesis, or Evaluation Cognitive Thinking
!! Neutral/Non-judgmental (neither positive nor negative in tone)
!! Positive Presuppositions (assumes person is thinking about and doing what is presented in the question)
!! Honor What Was Observed (if possible)
!! Impact on Student Learning (cause and effect analysis) © 2011 PVA & CMSi
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Pedagogical
Event Reflection-on-
Action
Reflection-for-
Action
Reflection-in-
Action
Both reflection-in and reflection-on-action are essentially
reactive in nature, being distinguished primarily by when
reflection takes place, with reflection-in-action referring to reflection in the midst of practice and reflection-on-action
referring to reflection that takes place after an event.
Reflection-for-action is “the desired outcome of both
previous types of reflection.” We reflect not so much to
revisit the past or become aware of the meta-cognitive process of the moment, but to guide future action.
Schön (1983)
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Reflective Model has
Five Levels of Questions !! Level 1: Criteria a teacher uses
!! Level 2: Fidelity of use--does the teacher
find that the criteria is used consistently
!! Level 3: Does using the criteria get the
desired results
!! Level 4: In using the criteria does one get
the desired student achievement
!! Level 5: Satisfied that the criteria is
institutionalized in one’s teaching, it is
working, and one doesn’t need to think
much more about it.
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FORMING THE TEACHING
PRACTICE FROM THE TEACHER
DECISIONS
TEACHER
DECISION
Approach to
selecting and
ordering objectives
Call on
volunteers
Teaching: Multiple
two digit figures
Strategies for
calling on students
TEACHING
PRACTICE
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HOW TO PREPARE IN YOUR MIND
LEVEL 1: CRITERIA
!! Teacher
Thinking and
Teaching Practice
!! Situation and
Condition—when does teacher
typically make this
decision?
!! And thinking about the many approaches you might have students to respond (such as volunteer or non-volunteer, all students, one student)
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HOW TO STATE: 5 POSITIVE PRESUPPOSITIONS !! Situation and
Condition
!! Teacher Thinking and Teaching Practice
!! Criteria
!! Decision Maker
!! Student Impact
!! “When you are planning lessons around the district curriculum and designing the questions you will ask and then posing those questions in your teaching
•! And thinking about the many approaches you might have students to respond (such as volunteer or non-volunteer, all students, one student)
!! what criteria do you use
!! to decide on those approaches
!! to influence each student’s accountability of the learning?”
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THE REFLECTIVE
QUESTIONS !!First Component
!!Think after you have your teaching
practice clearly in mind
!!Situation--Mainly about planning
!!Focus on lessons or units of study
around the district curriculum
!!Add caveats--conditions
!!Phrase usually starts with the
word “when”
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The Reflective Question
Second Component !! And thinking about
!! [ways, approaches, strategies, types of, methods, when to and when not to]
!! (teaching practice)
–!Usually in descriptive words rather than the label
–! If use label, add after saying in descriptive manner
!! And add examples for clarification
–!Honor that used as one of the examples
!! See additions to 4-29. Run these off for use during the training.
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Typical Curricular and
Instructional Practices
!!Let’s review the list.
!!Would we use and distribute this list?
!!How do we deal with district teacher proficiencies on the formal evaluation process?
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The Reflective Question
!! Third Component
!! Level I is really about the criteria a teacher
uses in deciding about a teaching
practice.
!! Use the word criteria in all of your
examples orally
!! Encourage participants to use the this
phrase before moving to others as they
become more comfortable with the
question
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The Reflective Question
!! Third and Fourth component are stated in one phrase –! What criteria do you use in deciding
about [teaching practice generally)
!! Fourth component
–! Teaching practice comes back generally
–! No new ideas at this time
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The Reflective Question !! 5th Component
!! First four phrases about teacher thinking and action
!! Last component about students
!! Cause (teacher action)
!! Effect (student learning)
!! As participants gain comfort here begin to have them link the student effect to the teaching practice when it makes sense.
–! E.g. and thinking about ways to differentiate the learning
–! E.g. so that each student moves forward in his/her learning
!! Watch out for judgment words here--ensure, maximize, best, better
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REFLECTIVE QUESTION
!!Really a series of phrases
!!Phrases are positive presuppositions
!!Level I starts at the analytical level
!! Interview the phrases during the conversation
–!Then come back near the end of the conversation and pull phrases all together
!!Always part of a conversation
!!Never written--not the way we write
!!Set time frame (8-15 minutes)
!!Make positive statement about reflection
!! Focus on teaching practice
!! Indicate how classroom observation triggered this area for reflection
!!Pose Reflective Question
!!Allow time for clarification and interaction on question and begin criteria
!! Indicate choice to think about question
!! Invite reflection with you, if desired
!!Exit quickly
THE Reflective Conversation
INTERACTION
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Reflective Conversation
!! Add near the beginning--alert to purpose
–! I have a reflective question you might be interested in thinking about
!! Add near the end--choice to think about question and invitation to collaboration
–! If you find the reflective question interesting an decide to think about it and would like to chat more with me about it, let me know.
!! What makes it collaborative is when the teacher chooses to come back and talk with you about it.
!! We don’t force collaboration.
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Enhancements to
Reflective Conversation
!! Add ideas of bringing a reflective question for consideration (early)
!! Near end, invite collaboration… “If you decide to reflect on this question and would like to come and chat with me about your learnings, I would love to chat with you.”
–! It only become collaborative when the teacher chooses to make it collaborative
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YOUR THOUGHTS
!! What are your thoughts about using walk-throughs and follow-up conversations with reflective questions as one tool in the role of supervision and the appraisal process?
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How does the Downey
Approach to Walk-
Throughs and
Reflective Conversation
DIFFER
from other types of
walk-through
approaches?
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Underlying Philosophy
!! Rogerian--person in process of becoming
!! Constructivist--Existing knowledge is used to build new knowledge
!! Motivational Theory Y-belief that people want to do a good job, want to work, and have an internal motivation to grown and learn (Drucker, 1974)
!! Choice Theory and Lead Manager-Glasser
!! Focus on self-analysis and sense of power and self-efficacy
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SELF-DIRECTED GROWTH
BASED ON ANALYSIS OF
ONE'S WORK IS AN
ATTRIBUTE OF
PROFESSIONALISM
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More Beliefs
!! Monitoring and inspecting in a fear-compliance environment will not produce growth.
!! Higher student achievement is a product of cultivating a new culture focused on growth and an inner locus of control.
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More Beliefs
!! People seek ways to grow and develop over time.
!! People benefit from engaging in reflective dialogue.
!! The most productive relationship is one of interdependence and collaborative and comprises adult-to-adult conversations.
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More Beliefs
!! Supervisors play a key role
in facilitating staff growth
and reflection.
!! The culture of the district
and a school is greatly
influenced by supervisor
and principal behavior.
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Reflection and Renewal:
The Mechanism of Growth
(Steffy, 2000) Reflective discourse
"! Can happen with self and others.
"! Involves assessing reasons and examining alternatives.
"! Involves a critical assessment of assumptions.
"! Becomes the means by which practitioners can develop a greater level of self-awareness about the nature and impact of their performance.
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Judith Irwin (1987)
“A reflective/analytical teacher is one who makes teaching decision on the basis of conscious awareness and careful consideration of (1) the assumptions on which the decisions are based and (2) the technical, educational, and ethical consequences of those decisions.
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REFLECTIVE THINKING
!!The process of making informed and logical decisions, then assessing the consequences of those decisions
!! Taggert and Wilson,1998
!! Promoting Reflective Thinking in Teachers, Corwin Press
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Reagan (2000)
Gains from Reflective
Practice !!Helps free teachers from impulsive
behavior.
!!Allows teachers to act in a deliberate, intentional manner.
!!Distinguishes teachers as educated human beings because it is one hallmark of intelligent action.
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YOUR THOUGHTS
!! What beliefs to you have that influence your supervisory role?
Creating a Culture of Learning
Using the
Appraisal
Process to
Influence
Learning—a
Human
Development
Enterprise
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Peter Senge (1990)
A Learning Organization
(Community) is… !! “A place where people continually expand their
capacity to create the results they truly desire,
!! where new and expansive patterns of thinking are
nurtured,
!! where collective aspiration is set free, and
!! where people are continually learning how to learn
together.”
!! We think of this capacity for collective actions and
attitudes as leadership.
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!! “An ecosystem; that is, its participants are inter- dependent and connected in their learning and work.
!! When some participants learn, others also learn and benefit.
!! When problems stay unresolved, the whole community suffers.
!! The whole of the community is greater than the sum of its parts.
!! What we accomplish as a group exceeds the sum of our individual efforts.
!! Interdependent communities tend to organize themselves around key ideas and issues.”
Peter Senge (1990)
A Learning Organization
(Community) is…
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!! “Involves a continual ‘wave’ of conversation
characterized by exploration, inquiry, construction
of meaning, and action.
!! Embedded in these processes is the development
of relationships that grow in density as educators
work collegially to unfold the learning cycle.
!! This is the process of “co-evolution in schools.”
!! It is constructivist learning.
Peter Senge (1990)
A Learning Organization
(Community) …
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School as a Learning
Organization !! The traditional approach to helping
educators learn has been to develop the skills of individuals to do their work better.
!! I’m talking about enhancing the collective capacity of people to create and pursue overall visions…
!! Learning occurs “at home,” so to speak, in the sense that it must be integrated into our lives, and it always takes time and effort.
Source: John O’Neil, “On Schools as Learning Organizations: A Conversation with Peter Senge,” Educational Leadership, vol. 52, no. 7, April 1995, pp. 20-23
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REMEMBER !!We are not looking for strengths and
weakness.
!!We are not looking for areas to reinforce or refine.
!!We are looking for DECISION POINTS of the teacher and selecting possible follow-up conversations areas that might stretch the teacher—are growth producing.
!!Purpose—to start them on a journey, to plant a seed.
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ANALYSIS !!HOW WAS YOUR PREVIOUS
UNDERSTANDING OF THE 5-STEP WALK-THROUGH STRUCTURE THE SAME OR DIFFERENT?
!!HOW WAS YOUR PREVIOUS UNDERSTANDING OF THE REFLECTIVE CONVERSATION THE SAME OR DIFFERENT?
!!WHAT QUESTIONS DO YOU HAVE?
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MENTORING THE
REFLECTIVE PRINCIPAL !!Four 2 day seminars over several
months
!!Focus on supervision of principals
and other administrators by
superintendents/assistant
superintendents
!! Includes trainer of trainers session
for university professors and
system administrators.
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SERIES GOALS
1. To mentor/coach school-based administrators toward reflective practice and establishing a culture of reflective practice with and among staff.
2. To enhance the collaborative interaction and learning relationship of the supervisor/ mentor and principal/assistant principal.
3. To perpetuate groups of principals (especially feeder school principals) to work together in their interventions for higher student achievement.
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SERIES GOALS Cont.
4. To move administrators toward greater self-reflective practice in their decision-making.
5. To rethink the supervisor-principal role from a hierarchical structure to a collaborative. interaction and with a focus on continuous growth.
6. To consider protocols which supervisors/mentors can use with school-based administrators as they coach, mentor, and collaborate for higher student achievement.
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SIX Coaching Protocols in this Program
!! Monthly Supervisor’s Principal School and
Classroom Visitations Protocol
!! Feeder Team Principals SchoolView: Gathering
Trend Data on Curricular and Instructional
Practices Protocol
!! Feeder School Principals' Joint Academic Goals
and Interventions Protocol
!! Superintendent’s Mid-Year and Annual Feeder
School Principals Dialogue
!! Team Approach for Working with Low Performing
Schools Administrative Staff Protocol
!! Listening to the Voice of Your Principals Protocol © 2011 PVA & CMSi
CONTACT INFORMATION
!! Texas Association for School Administrators
–! Contact: Susan Holly, Assistant Executive Director, Instructional Support and Leadership Development
–! 406 East 11th Street, Austin, Texas 78701
–! Phone: (512) 477-6361 ext. 115 Fax: (512) 482-8658
!! Curriculum Management Systems, Inc.
–! Contact: Holly Kaptain, Executive Director
–! 5415 NW 88th Street, Suite #300
–! Johnston, IA 50131
–! Email: [email protected]
–! Phone (515) 276-8911 Fax (515) 276-8912
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CLOSURE
!! Share ONE idea that has been significant to
you during our time together.
!! One thing that has been significant to me:
–! learned
–! relearned
–! validated
–! want to learn more about
–! etc.
!! Share in one sentence your idea round robin
in your group.