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Professional and Ethical Leadership Class. Dr. Timothy Mitchell Rapid City Area Schools 9/26/13. Systems That Learn. “Leadership is about going somewhere. If you and your people don’t know where you are going, your leadership doesn’t matter.” Ken Blanchard. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Professional and Ethical Leadership Class
Dr. Timothy MitchellRapid City Area Schools
9/26/13
Systems That Learn“Leadership is about going
somewhere. If you and your people don’t know
where you are going, your leadership doesn’t matter.”
Ken Blanchard
The Three C’s of Community BuildingConfront the Brutal Facts
Communication (Effective)
Collaboration
RCAS Mission
Building a community of life
long learners, one student at a
time.
RCAS Vision
All Rapid City Area School students will
achieve to their full potential.
My Personal Vision
To embrace learning rather than teaching as a school’s mission, to work
collaboratively to help all students learn, to focus on results to foster continuous improvement and to
assume individual responsibility to take steps to create such a school.
My Sentence
I provide the leadership to create a purposeful learning community that creates high quality learning experiences for all community members.
Community SupportCommunity InvolvementCommunity Trust
What is essential!!
Systems That LearnOverarching Theory
When a school systems learns, continuous improvement
enables educators to close achievement gaps and
ensures that all students grow and develop as learners.
Systems That LearnIn order to disagree, learn from mistakes, successfully manage conflict, and continually learn, the systems needs sufficient:
TrustCapacity Building for ALL educatorsCollaboration in All directionsLeadership at all levels
Trust
*Provide a safety net for taking risks
*It is necessary for the system to achieve beyond capacity
*Need to pay attention to the needs of all the stakeholders
Function of two things:
◦Integrity
◦Competence
Developing Trust
Integrity◦ Honesty-telling the truth & leaving the right
impression
◦ Congruence-no gaps between intent and behavior “walk your talk”
◦ Humility-recognize principles before yourself
◦ Courage-do the right thing-even when hard
Developing Trust
Competence
◦ Your capabilities◦ Your skills◦ Your results◦ Your track record
◦ They are both vital-one without the other will not work
Developing Trust
Speed of Trust-Behavior #9
Clarify Expectations-to create shared vision and
agreement about what is to be done up front
Speed of Trust-Behavior #10
Practice Accountability-Hold yourself accountable. Hold others
accountable. Take responsibility for results. Be clear on how you’ll communicate how you’re doing and how others are doing. Don’t avoid or shirk responsibility. Don’t
blame others or point fingers when things go wrong.
Capacity Building
*Quality teaching has a positive impact on student learning
*Teaching competencies can be taught*Professional learning can increase teacher competencies in ways that will result in increased student learning
Collaboration
The knowledge about effective practice becomes more widely available and accessible on a
daily basis
Working together generates commitment
Leaders at ALL Levels“It is no longer sufficient to have one person
learning for the organization. It’s just not possible any longer to figure it out from the top. The organizations that will truly excel in the future will be the organizations that discover how to tap people’s commitment and capacity to learn at all levels of the
organization”Peter Senge
Leaders at ALL Levels
*Good ideas can come from anywhere
*Include as many people as they can in key decisions
What Do I Want You to Feel? Autonomy-the desire to direct your own life
◦ This does not mean condoning and allowing people to do “whatever they want”
◦ The “How” of the things we do-Supportive Limits Mastery-the urge to get better and better at
something that matters◦ Your ability is not finite
Purpose-the yearning to do what we do as a service of something larger than ourselves
What must we have to provide a high quality
education for all students of the RCAS?
Control the Conversation
“A man who doesn’t trust himself can never truly
trust anyone else.”-Cardinal de Retz
Developing Trust