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welcome
welcome still at building your bench preparing future readers through
partnership
satisfaction is going to bed and just that i can get out
uh... leadership and building capacity for leadership and leveraging
partnerships to do that
so uh...
shape is that the description of what the session is an interactive session
which will provide practical ideas and examples and how your school
temperature educators to lead and the leadership cassidy in your building
predictions
and that that rates attn
panel today representing ten of the range of different
uh... contacts that that overall perspective urban perspective
and uh... group
you're going to be pleased with the information that you here today and also
with how
didn't work to make this
uh... interactive experience for you that you can take away some some
practical kinds of ideas going forward
let me introduced are active cameras today
so and Tricia Browne-Farrigno
(inaudible)
(inaudible)
is an associate professor of educational
leadership studies at the university Kentucky
she directed still girl based leadership development programs funded by the u_s_
department of education
principles excellence program for principles of a new administrators
administrator credentialed leaders eighteen development for instructional
leadership in restructuring high schools
for principals teachers students and parents
she served as a senior researcher and recently convicted wallace foundation
evaluation studies
districts developing leaders lessons on consumer actions and program approaches
frontgate urban districts
doctor brown for you know is cast sheriff to A.E.R.A american educational
research association special interest groups really needs the leadership
and founding member of another one
and she holds a bachelor's degree in secondary mathematics from florida
and a masters degree in special education
gifted education from the university of south florida in a doctorate
especially japan innovation from the university of colorado-denver
so welcome
I'm going to go ahead and introduce
Dr. Steve Tozer. Am I pronouncing that right?
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added that if if there is professor of the college of education at the
university of illinois at chicago you might see and founding coordinator at
the add deprogramming urban leadership urban education leadership which
prepares principles to improve student learning in high needs urban schools
he was president of the american educational studies association and the
council for school foundations of education
and was former had at the department of curriculum instruction at the university
of illinois champaign urbana
and doctor says their has fared as chair of the governor's council on education
educator quality you know an alliance here the statements that task force
that lead and changed school principal cert on in illinois
his district level claridge's the chicago public schools have fun have
been funded by the protonation chicago community trust na kar mcarthur
foundation the national science foundation and others his lead author of
the textbook for teachers school and society start on contemporary
perspectives
and um... leader editor of the handbook of research and social foundations of
education that we have a very
misty just and jeans panel today
has an apple
and still am and i guess i just myself and for every anthony mclean sits a
research eyes
worked mainly on the rounded last the regional educational laboratory of the
midwest which is that federally-funded lab that serves
seven midway midwest states
and uh... we'd also have some other folks from coming out in the rain today
so i really holds is killing and im
instead
and uh... she works with the national high school center
and then how inductees
and how it happened where
what you mean the jewish community
also with the national ok so and they've got it agrees groups here today and
um... i think you can go ahead and get started
vers
i have a lot of earlier like a regular pressure cooker
uh...
you know i realize that we could have dispensed with all of the credentials
they've just heard on both of us because i think what really matters here is that
both of us are are practitioners who are engaged in the proc in the process is
of trying to produce leaders who really make a difference
and everything else on our hundred feet up in
important in that that we're both engaged in in really highly intentional
in sustained over a number of years processes
to try to produce leaders that actually a cut above what we're used to
uh... in terms of uh... leadership production from higher education
the very first uh... comic here that uh... that we see as one of your
probably well
aware of this one comes from week what's most recent work with wall street
the effects of school leadership directly influence school in classroom
conditions as wealthy themselves indirectly influenced and learning
there's a sense in which we put a strain get more accurate than some of his
earlier comments were sort of misleading
the research could lead to a did early earlier in his career in that many of
you may be familiar with our are often quoted as saying
of school leadership is the second most important thing in terms of a
influencing student learning in school
but they wouldn't act that you realize that the reason he's saying a second
most important is to statistically
the most proximal variable is the quality of
a classroom instruction
and in our program what we have um... come to believe
is at the single most powerful influence on classroom instruction is school
leadership in organizations
and were demonstrated here even hear our another words we're not going to get
high quality classroom instruction classroom after classroom
in the absence of outstanding school leadership so for me
this even understates it a little bit you know this is an accurate statement
it looks good in that
uh... what we're gonna talk about today is uh... is building a school-wide
leadership capacity and asking what it means in practice and why it matters for
school change efforts and we'll talk a little bit about illinois a little bit
about kentucky
and i'm going to start with something that's not not very visible to you but
something that i hope all of you are interested in high schools will uh...
really pay some attention to in your homework
of district two fourteen
uh... in chicago invent outside chicago western suburbs summit meeting before
with a it's the second largest uh... high school district in illinois only
behind chicago
and it has six high schools only in the district of chicago has a hundred thirty
high schools in the second largest six
uh... six large conference of high schools
and uh... what district two fourteen began to do was to track the growth of
its freshmen
through the a_t_t_ examined junior year
and you get context question
how many of you are from illinois in the room here
how many of your not from illinois
okay that's useful for me to know cuz i can explain a couple things as we go
illinois uh... requires me to cheaper alternatives in the state
and this matters of course i remember a time when they were high schools the
state of illinois in which nobody took me a ***
uh... and the reason they didn't take it is because the high school
administration that particular school in thinking about right now uh... maybe
terminations kids aren't going to college anyway it just doesn't make any
sense we now require all students in the state to take the expertise of this
particularly useful because now we use the e path
series explore planning a city
and they're all kinds of statistical problems with that however you can
really track student growth from freshman year to junior year
using a formula called the growth from entry metric
now this growth from entry metrical has been admitted on it and then try to
moved more quickly through the other slides
is really interesting because what you see in chicago public schools
for non selective price
which is like a hundred ten of the high schools in chicago
they have a growth from internet sort of point one nine i won't go into houses
calculated but it's simply of value-added score from freshmen to
junior year on his c_t_ testers
in chicago public schools the value-added is point one nine on this
ratio
which means the chicago public school kids actually lose ground against the
rest of the country in their they actually the worse by their junior year
compared to the rest of the country than they are suppression
interestingly enough if we take our selective enrollment high schools which
statistically are the best high schools in illinois
these are high for the judge's magnet schools that are accepting students on
the basis of test score
proficiency in which i a teachers who are themselves have demonstrated ability
to work with brian kids
you know what's happened in our peter these are the number one number two
number three highest performing schools the state of illinois
cerebral from entry metrical also
is so low that those students are actually losing ground against the rest
of the country
in other words the fact that these kids have the highest a_z_t_ scores no noi
has nothing to do with the education they're getting in the high school it
has everything to do with the selection index freshman year
the reason i think it's important for all of you
is that as you're looking at high schools you can do a growth from entry
mentor
and find out for getting high school in the high school district
arby's didn't show a growth from freshmen junior year
above and beyond
national averages
in which case they would actually be closing that gap or extended yet or in
fact i didn't sing ground and what you find your district two fourteen for
example
the hyatt single
uh... gems corner status for c high school
kids at her see high school routinely seventy five percent of the kids to
insert
ever thirteen to sixteen equivalency
why did you hear here haven't seventy five percent of the budget year an
equivalent the academy's court twenty
this is the only high school we know that's producing this kind of results
but we have other high schools that are producing similar results into producing
it
in the ways that you would expect
they're doing good curriculum good instruction good assessment and strong
professional development
right no secrets here i'm putting us on the map to think recap ways of actually
tracking whether high schools are building the capacity
that is resulting
in student learning outcomes that are extraordinary and secondly
we don't know any cases where the success of these being built without
strong school leadership
okay let's go to the next uh... inspected is your turn
okay good
we will do a quick switch
them
like many of you
but many of you
work as a in high school prevent center
contempt charges
school district known the nation
also
county public schools in tampa and then moved to denver and works for me
uh... on sat march metropolitan area
when i moved to kentucky
i suddenly management statements dominant role
in fact
on linux
jefferson county defeat only true urban
uh... school district under one hundred seventy four
in kentucky
so suddenly
i discovered
the challenges
role
how do you are from
world instance
at a couple okay
what's interesting is the challenges in the world this place identical to the
apartment but the difference is that
has to do with the passing what's available
because oftentimes you are in
a district where there is not a higher education institution nearby
they're not like businesses
and you don't have a luxury
uh...
bringing can other people insert the school in other words he said we'll grow
your own
building that's it
capacity
what i have
on the slide here is the fourteen development for leadership in
restructuring high schools which was and up
your mom project in eastern kentucky in central appalachia
these for high schools homestead
and ones requirements
and the state mcconnell of kentucky and i want to say
a c we have all the same things that he said he is not required and we have
the annual review when our kids uh... performance-based
student performance
so we talked to folks in the eastern kentucky and found ok we really need to
do something
something very very
so we met with the district leaders in the principles we came up with the idea
less look
redefining school leadership
none of the function this not there
as responsibility
principle
but instead
function
uh... movement of people involved in collective leadership
so we says he hopes will see
prepare
any he
mean of leadership team
with ten members
are only requirement was that we had to have
at least one paragraph
student rest
from the soft launch in
we had to have the principal
but the rest of the configuration had to include of course the teachers they want
it
it but include
either additional people that you would like
so we formed these t
means an intent was of this project
was to return sexualized school leadership
as a function of the school let that's collected
leadership of the he
worked hard in the summer institute to help them
understand what leadership is they did
the distance s they did the miners prints
what what it meant to say
we don't all have all the strings that are necessary
seems to be
very strong leadership that what we have is the collective spring
and so i was working as keene state would differentiate again
one of the most interesting outcomes of this was the idea of using students were
talked about leadership capacity here
these students
and the parents
kind of waste now particularly could share him i think we're doing
i thought it was not that fee of one of the principles students came to me and
say we'd like to do as survey of all the students and find out
whether the student sparked fears
like coming to school
hand
what are we doing in the classrooms and the principal said to have my blessing
and the team made a commitment that uh... students would do this research
separate from what it does
and they would share the findings
we treat them
some that some before school started
and he's to students or so
committed to including the voice of policies that they made sure that every
one of the group says
no clicks in groups that are
so common in high schools ensure that those voices for her
ammunition and the results of the faculty
date let them know
you're wasting too much time at the beginning of class
and start clouds
don't make excuses for our performance expense
expect us to put on this very fascinating to see
what they see it
in courts of the of the year
they did action research as if she
informed and guided their school
provement concepts had
for high schools three made tremendous progress i have to tell their story
that's important
we talk about leadership capacity and we talk about building the bastion about we
talk about
principal six session
and again i want to say that we were in rural schools
you down
pap a lot of other people who can come men from across the county
from one side of town it's the because coupon
to drive an appalachian is unique
that if it's historically where the scotch irish
settlements of the notion of claims you've heard and stay in appalachia to
talk about the problems
it's literally the valley between the original movements hand
you know here in a certain town by the last names of the people there it's it's
it is the most fascinating study if you go into the sunset sail g
and human
but what happened at one of the schools the principle left he was promoted and
to the district office
the truest system principles then began to campaign back home here
to really worked
to become the principal and it literally split that's cool pot
one of the lessons that i learned from that experience
and having teaching sheer endurance that
was the critical warns fashion
made it into need moral principles you know one day you're going to win
and said that last sentence
be sure that you did velma
the replacement
and be sure that you meet your school conception play
that the capacity to continue the improvements to it
that passed into focus
student learning
is there a way that you walked out of the door or not
because before
uh... high schools in this particular project one when the dissension over
leadership would become
this is a part of the begin three years ago
they still haven't covered
found that
incredible singing someone to share
in our next line
descendants threatening to stop
okay building capacity so the title of our session is building
that how the media partnership cell
what do we mean by partnerships
why the partnerships matter for improving
settled weird
uh...
that in two years
all principal programs preparation programs illinois will be shut down to
all these sunset bylaw by law passed by the governor of this past summer
and they will have to re-open
in partnership
with public school districts
why did we do that and why does it matter lead the legislative task force
to create that law and and to pass it
uh... here's wat we now know how many people were world we also uh... we we
need to know how many view are
district for school days
versus higher i mean you're just refer school-based people right now
and your university base right now
i sort of which there was some university people in here so i could say
the following with them which is
school leadership is too important to be left to universities along
it just gives alright report after report have to report for the past
twenty years has shown is how far short our school leadership programs for
we actually invest less nationwide in the preparation of school principals per
person
then we invest in each teacher that we produce from counterfeit
we have paid little preparation program just a few miles from here
that has seventeen hundred
principal candidates in the program at this moment
do you really think that this is program is about preparing readers
it's not
it's about tuition
we this new lawn illinois will put a stop to this because people make these
new programs highly selective
it will also make them required
to be in partnership with public schools and why is that so important
it's important because the public school has skiing in the game that this at the
higher ed institution does not
if we produce mediocre people for you
it doesn't matter to hire a 'cause we've done our job
we've given the credential
and you're stuck with the product
if however you at the school-based level will
really embraced this responsibility to gain some control over the quality of
principles come into your district
and you can do this in partnership with public's with what i read
r_u_ four examples right now around the country that have gotten a lot of
attention
if you're worried about these on your own
you can go to the rainwater leadership alliance website uh... right there
because it discusses all four of these and these are four different partnership
models
the very first one is the new york city leadership academy
which is a partnership model with which in really involves high-rate only
inattention chalet
the fruit cabin has a place to get credit for the president program
this is truly an academy that independent of higher ed
and that works with the school district to produce high in principles by having
full-year internships full-year paid internships for principles
i will tell you that all four of these programs are about to describe have full
year paid internships for principles
part of the glory of a full year paid internship isn't just the experience the
principals get because the only way as as thousands of to learn to leaders by
leading
but it also allows us to assess the quality of these individuals into a
high-stakes leadership environment
we counsel out twenty percent of our candidates
in a program that's highly selective about who gets in in the first place
that you are seeing for example
in similarly new york city leadership academy councils that about twenty
percent of its candidates
another major partnership program that's taking place nationwide that you can
read about in in anew approach
is new leaders from the schools
there are about ten such districts that are partnered with new leaders for new
schools
again in some cases with high rate in some cases without higher ed
the key here is the district plays a key role
in deciding what kind of principles we need and works with the provider to
produce those principles
the third one is gwinnett county georgia and when it comes which just recently
won the broad leadership award
uh... is the most
extreme of these foreign some in some ways because in this instances the
school districts if you took over leadership preparation by itself
it has a very light partnership with a major university in georgia
but essentially this is a program where the school districts that
we could do this better than hiring to do it
now i work productively with all three of these different groups
the fact is all of us are experimenting with
what would it look like we all know this and this is the bottom line for this
we all know that in some cases
it very low performing low-income school
can be elevated dramatically by bringing the right leadership in place
and i write that everybody knows instances of this
the question is can we do this as a rule instead of it as a rear exception to the
rule
all four of these are doing it as a rule it can be done as a rule reviews that
the great principles were born in not made because that happens so seldom
but the reality
we can do this
on a routine basis if we commit to it right this is an excellent
uh... usc approached a partnership with shell public schools are being very
quick and this is you can read it for yourself it starts out with a
grammatical error
uh... redistricted
difficult to build the criteria for principle ship have impact criteria
spoilt patents if my father had to get back on preparation curriculum
the district decides
this is really pretty powerful message trooper gwinnett county gwinnett county
georgia also gwinnett county by the way
is both world hamburger it's the largest school district in georgia outside
atlanta so it covers
it covers the kentucky case in chicago casebook right
and uh... it's done
it's very interesting to think about these because uh... in quick county and
chicago we have are all eligibility requirements for the principal ship
forget what the state required chicago public schools the side of the state
requirements were so irrelevant
outstanding principal ship that having a state requirement is a prerequisite for
being assessed
by the chicago public schools
so in other words the district decided
what the criteria for entering the principal ship would be any student any
candidate who was the principal has to pass those district assessments every
year
there are two times a year that these districts dozens of attitude periods
during which the given everybody has a shot at it the failure rate is sixty
percent
our failure rate is very very smart this year so far the eight candidates in his
her co-workers seven out of data passing this in this current cohort
why is that because
it is a selective program that works in partnership with the school district
and in which the students have a full year residency before their examine
understood right
so we can do this it's just that in nationwide we haven't done it
uh... we have the district participated in preparing for designing the program
uh... our programs more selective in our p_h_d_ program the district pays for
these internships
and as a consequence out of the first seven cohorts
we have a hundred percent placement
hundred-percent placement of seven courts in principle ships are assistant
principal sessions
uh... with a couple of acceptance of taking district level positions
uh... are impacting student learning outcomes is dramatic for example
nine out of ten you know we have principles in different quarters of the
school system for example some of them were in all african-american elementary
schools
uh... that are hot they're low-income some of them are all looking on interest
but some of them are mixed schools some of them in high schools and i'd given
you some data on the high schools in fact
for you to take a look at a little bit later that's that
of our nine of of the highest needs schools which were march and
african-american low-income schools
uh... out of those ten schools nine of our principles rules are outperforming
district norms in the very first year
uh... and they continued outperformed history but they do it in the first year
because the quality of training
because we're working to build this pipeline with the district
and secondly uh... in fact most of our people get their principal ships after a
year or two as assistant principals
so the stage becomes residency
then assistant principal because the
because they the competition the principles that's hot
and then finally uh... the principal ship
so there is a pipeline of people who've been prepared hindu leaders in in our
program
uh... and we have another university that's coming on the royal university
with the same project this year
why do i mention this because it leads to my second factory said there'd be two
had predicted under ronald manuals administration
in less than four years
every single-crystal vacancy in the third largest school district in america
will be filled with graduates of these programs
because the vacancy rate is only ten percent
that means we only have to fill stephanie positions a year out of high
in programs
uh... if in fact we're seeing
it's a little bit more about the achievement levels
nine out of ten of our people are outperforming four out of those ten were
in the top ten
in performance among those elementary schools
in other words the results are so dramatic
that if we put these kinds of principles in every school every year
over a ten-year period you have eight theory of change its tail but nothing
else can match
unifil everyday to see
and within the next two years i'd believe that chicago public schools will
be able to fill that pipeline
from multiple providers not just us us
new leaders loyola teachforamerica now has a personal preparation program
they've developed it will see one or two others into the into the deal as well
that's an excellent
okay
seaford vic that you have
as we talk about what it would be by capacity
i thought it would be good for you guys they have this as a take home here are
ten elements of capacity building
and the very first one is the one that tricia mentioned which is the building
of high quality teams in the school
we don't think principles and accomplish these outcomes without building high
quality high functioning teams in their schools we have no evidence that they
can't we have every evidence that would need to establish the themes that works
so you have ten dimensions of capacity building here
that are very hard to learn about to say and you guys note from your friends
most principles can't do the same things
if they could do these ten things we would have different results in schools
k people learn to do the same place yes they can
and we have four programs nationwide for demonstrating that
so this is one of the mention of what it means the bill to pass it in a school
district
so that your pipeline is full of people who are learning how to do these things
which extraordinary results in student performance
the other thing to look at is this one which is just a recent ah...
university of illinois story on this program
indications a couple of our principles and so on its useful for you to take a
look at
also at the back of this one of the the ten capacities
you'll see uh... a dozen or so high schools
uh... they had just brief profiles on how they're doing in the early years of
our principal ship i'll tell you something you already know
it is harder to turn around the high school than it is an elementary school
other things being equal
but we are finding better leading indicators are high schools are pretty
dramatic in terms of reducing dropout rate
improving freshmen on track record as they percentage of freshmen who have no
failing grades
uh... improving dropout rate annually and so forth and so on
what is the level of the lever is leadership
i think that in the next ten years there will be national consensus on the
following thing on which there is not now national consensus ready
the single most cost effective worker for improving student learning outcomes
in hiding schools is putting the right principle in place
the single most cost effective web
we are not acting that way in federal or state policy
in the next ten years i think that claim
is going to be something that we have a matter of consensus not a matter of
challenging the status quo
apa
continuing on with idea
bill in advance of partnership someone to share with the u_s_ study that was
done by the u_s_ department of education
many two thousand
for about eight years
made convenient a
group of experts and represented
professional association
and higher ed
definitely state folks and uh...
practitioners
and they said let's look at all of the leadership initiative going on in the
country
and a
announced sixty artwork in orbit
by innovative
wanted restrict what they were
they should be held down a narrow down he finally got down to six
respects that they insured
eunice publication which you can get and its valuable because they're all
different
one of them
is paid
new jersey
it was run by path principal association in new jersey
another one in the world
uh... principles that science program
there are large ones out there for checking their website on the bottom
right there to go to that website know finance
but the idea here is that there is
a lot of different ways
welcome to go back this one of the comments this morning context is
everything
what they were looking for a while the commonalities across the types of
leadership partnership
leadership development
programs and they found some of that
you need to think about if you're going to engage in partnerships and so what
did university that u_s_ department of it
metropolitan club six programs that were in this particular uh... report
anne research anything
vision of what effect the principles to do
school leadership performance standards
candidate selection and three passes a statement tonight over and over again
that is probably the biggest isn't important thing it is happening in the
field and that is
selected admissions and sensible preparation program because you want to
restore
that vast
and i'm gonna use the word passion
the best-qualified and those
craft that had commitment transformed
well-lighted and art on
money energy on developing
talked about putting together focusing aboard making become
communities of practice which is the notion of the professional learning
communities within teachers and school so they experience it before they
expecting teacher to work that way
authentic leadership experience if atm
at the next
and of course cause foundation you can hear you heard the
the applicant wala u_n_ readership
n this particular week
than earlier one
it's deepak dot hits that their apartment
following
requirements for
active leadership
research face content an eight very coherent program
innocent who's cult courts it's again hillbillies internship
problem-based learning entry
and again this nation collaboration and see that's right
none of us
unit higher education institutions
nor districts more professional associations
can do with alone anymore
tasks in the melting deters is so great that you need team to have everything
there
who do have the practical experience and who have been through investment and
these are people who want to make sure that they are going to be prepared
reform actively their by going one
these collaborations and partnerships
just to let you know that
hidden kentucky did the same kind of illinois again
all of the pencil preparation programs
sunset december thirty one two thousand eleven
they must be
totally redesign
they are no one we're no longer going to be offering matters
educational leadership or school administration
you've come back to the last into the program with me
masters degrees so it's a post masters programs
must be limited partnerships with districts
so you can see in contest hockey
one hundred seventy two
partnerships is kind of in interesting idea we're gonna talk about that
humanity
that the candidates screened panic
district
the university
cult select
meaning there is that there are standards and there's the selection
process
that's me
principal cohort in our program for high quality programs will be much smaller
so that we are not standing on money on people who don't want to be calm
but understand that
kentucky general assembly
and the education professional standards sport
made a commitment your
may have said all masters
programs for it
pictures had to be redesigned into teacher leadership programs
we at university of kentucky we decided millicent at this time
reading analysis of all of our graduates over it
definitely
that those candidates who came into our program we've had a masters
who had at least eight
twelve fifteen years experiences teacher leader
graduated from our program principles now effect
but the other part of uh... with or program who came and
out the teacher leadership experience
and union without a graduate degree are still teachers today
so we have developed a program on future leadership which incorporates all of
these same things for the principal
but what we wanted to do was offer opportunities for teachers who want to
be part of leadership teens
want to step up the classroom
gate with the dog
in transforming schools which are all students learn
citizen handouts that would share with you
and again the education commission of the states has a nice life here
that has available about teacher leadership
and i would say if you really looking at
developing partnerships in the most part of that leadership development building
the bench
start looking at what you do to prepare teachers
who would be considered hurts hapter identified
as perspective
principles one day and given the kind of of
opportunities
leadership development
there's also a handout
on your about preparing teachers for rural schools
and even if you're in a large district
urban district
accede these tickets will be some of these interesting things because they're
applicability you as well
but there's also some interesting things when you can come to appreciate
challenges at the high schools have
mentioned several sources today and so there's a
you wanted to give you a one c that it has and it's an and i think it
profession of some of the sources that we've used
so that when you look here
because there's so much that we've covered you might want to look at some
of the defense forces and make your own decisions
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given overall grade for the schools you know that somehow with how well they
demonstrate eight eight bent
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for improving
student learning
and from that
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teachers was to work with parents installer but he said he's expected to
be was decorated and outstanding principal
he said but
it was never raised any context in which i it was present
that i should have an impact on student learning that was the teacher's job and
i think what we're seeing is a dramatic shift in the field right now and part of
that shift breezy and other stakeholders into the ball game and started for a
quick break up at our table
these other partners are starting to become significant does that work
yes the graphic that you have in front of your engaging our leaders
you can see that it was publishing stressed what threshold but it was the
joint work by
martin blank hand betty hale and
higher heart hard today
it's a great model when you start thinking about partnerships and you so
often we think of just
businesses and so forth but i would argue here that that they've really
doing nice job of laying us out because
it's the students
and i want to go back to that in just a minute because our partners can be the
students
henrietta
article recently in preparing for a course in teaching on beating
organizational change and hits by ron hubbard
and it's the damage happen
uh... june for two thousand seven units called tinkering change versus system
change
and he said let's talk about system change he said let's talk about what's
going on in our secondary schools
one if we eliminated
compulsory education long
instead to the students who are teenagers aged thirteen
comes quote he wants it
come to school because you want to live
because you want to be impatient 'cause you're going to be part of the learning
community
and if you're not interested nag and don't come to school
but that's where churches
government
and his statement and take over
taking care of the custodial responsibility
he argues that if we said
come because she wants him
come to be engaged
that our schools would transform because the kids who wanted to be there and
their friends didn't they would want to come to pizza it's just one of those
kinds of things
we need to think about
what it's like to be a student and i had one quick thing here also if i could
uniting development project
we said to
the teachers court administrator
preferably assistant
you're going to go visit one of the other three schools you're gonna dressed
like a teenager you know we are a backpack on your path back
and you're gonna take a schedule that you get from the guidance office and
you're gonna spend the entire day
following that schedule exactly
meaning
restroom breaks
getting through the halls eating lunch in the cafeteria
at the end of the day you can sit with the principal members of that leadership
team at that school you can share
what your experiences work
how many deer school principals right now would like for someone
to do that for you
so i can think about teachers students teen partners as well
we're gonna shift you into another prompt in just a second unit twelve
minutes to work on that and then we're going to open it up for large group
discussion
and i would say that for example you i see
we partner with all of these groups
uh... that
that we see on the slide because they can dance esther said earlier
the job is to be a for any of us to to buyers sellers
and have a history and education is certainly came up at the table i was
sitting at there is the status quo
that is instant the wave
of actually selecting the most outstanding leaders in developing them
in their districts in developing in the market missiles for the future
and part of its status quo
uh... is such that
uh... we haven't in the past
really expected school principals
kevin huge impact on student performance
now we know it can be done the question is how do we do it every every school
were suggesting that we need these partners to make it happen
so we're gonna turn to a partnership prompt here if you take a look at this
when you have twelve minutes at your table
uh... to do justice to this next set of questions
one of the most useful partnerships you know have for building leadership
capacity
and what additional partnerships would you like what would help
uh... we've seen some rural areas where the principal
is doing it for on his or her own with very little partnership
uh... and we see some of the individual is well
principles feel isolated they're trying to do it on their own this does not seem
to be a recipe for change
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engage in conduct bouldering
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yes
so much gather back together
and for the ac
fifteen minutes at this session we're just going to help in excel margaret
conversation
impose questions that's nights the appropriately addressed by others in the
military might be a part of analysts
would be the one said tests and that we want to just
ninety-six this conversation too much aligned tonight
you can talk about this
take away our high
questions
i think they've come up and that
well just ahead
that's
benefits and would like to take care of questioner share something
word i mean is this
circulate this lottery might because its wireless any other it's nuts
because that's probably the safest
interested
what questions do you guys
uh... you mentioned earlier that your placement of principles through your
co-workers have changed the schools soon within the year um...
one question is uh... related to that is
these turnaround schools where they tire staff was replaced or is it
via i'm really glad you as that because um... we're we're doing both models and
our preferences that so to speak real straightforward
we're recruiting people
who want to go into the toughest neighborhoods schools to change in
changing with the teachers that are there
there are several turnaround initiatives in chicago that are recruiting our
principles like crazy as you can imagine
rang and so as a consequence
some of our principles end up in turn around schools by which i need in this
you know that u_s_ office education has four different models of what they mean
by turnaround one of the that you're referring to is the school that that
releases all the teachers that everybody has to reapply for their position of if
at all
it is definitely true that our principles who are
who are privileged to hire every single teacher when they go in as a new
principal are having faster
and better results
so this is kinda good for us to think this is a pretty significant research
funding right
these are all principals go into the same program
some of them were taking schools in which the teachers park fired in some of
them were taking taking schools which teachers are fired
and we are seeing faster results in the schools which teachers are fired however
that said
i don't think that this allusion of firing the teachers
is a solution to be used at scale by any means
we are also seeing dramatic results
when we're working with the staff it's there
uh... so you get the point that but also around
principles uh... it appears has a tremendous backing from the district of
support from the district
in making those changes and
where they're going to be
yes that this is true we'd because it's a partnership with the district let's
underline this partnership issue again
because it's a partnership with the district our principals do feel very
much supported by the district whether or not that's a quote turn around school
our viewers are principal's job is to turn around any school therein
because we're going to the highest need schools
and and yes we are getting district support for doing it
persons reaction
uh... i don't think there's any question that we recognize the significance of
instructional leadership and focus that cleared the but there's no controversy
about that but
i was just wondering what your thoughts i think if you
in thinking about
leadership pipelines and whether you prepare anything addresses this
uh... from the so-called nontraditional
feels uh... whether its military her business now we've seen some examples
that that at the supreme tenants level and typically they're paired with
uh... suppose that lee paraguay's somebody
of cult leader who is steeped in instruction in education experiences so
wonder what you're thinking it's about those
potential pipelines her uh... fix that
may not even have teaching experience in france
one of the challenges
estate policy
and in kentucky
you have to be have taught three years and good to be certified insect as the
principal in their is no alter their dispositions alternative
certification is a principle however there is alternative certification for
superintendents
because the task of the superintendent
it's further removed in most cases from today and and work within the school
so again i think the stumbling up to that is definitely state policy and
regulations
yeah i think that it's not just a
stumbling block but there's a good principle at stake here
and that is that school leaders really need to understand instruction well
and and to the extent to which they have
demonstrated in practiced that understanding that's all the good now
our state lawsuits kentucky's on that count
wheat uh... our viewers this that uh...
it is possible to imagine somebody becoming a very strong school principal
who's never taught school i think we have examples of that
however i would not design a program or policy on that premise
there could be some exceptional individuals
who could pull this off but it's also true that somebody could be an
outstanding medical doctor without ever having gone to college
you don't build a program our policy on vietnam vet exceptional inside
so at the school level and much less
supporter of of having
people who've never taught run the school than i am at the district level
uh... just a quick side story on this
uh... once we were what as we looked at two or three does school superintendents
in the road would net had no education or teaching background
uh... one chicago reporter said you know what he said i'm not so sure i want it
news reporter running the chicago tribune myself
and use pointing out that there's a difference kill set at the top of the
whole organization
now would take that for what it's worth but i think that i am i'm more flexible
in my own thinking
aboutus about a district leader than i am about a school
nancy casting
yes in
what inside meyer do you mean five-year there at teaching career is over
or once the schools consider trial
annual imitate
the intelsat
interview but you can interview becky and those that don't have to be a back
in
five five-year notes at effects for making that distinction
this is something that different districts are doing in different ways
but virtually all districts
are saying to the teacher
you haven't lost your tenure in this district but it's on you to get rehired
in effect if you can't get rehired that is the effective end of that teachers
career at least in that district
but no district to my knowledge has said when we turn this school around every
teacher in the school is not allowed to reapply me to my knowledge
there's been now they're different different ways in which districts have
negotiated this with local bargaining units
and so on
but to my knowledge the firing language i used
uh... is intended to mean
you can no longer teaches this cool unless you reply for a position in which
case you may get hired
no guarantees
lanai and saying that it is something a lot
since then
and that we have
since tools that were due at the trial
near mixture and working with one stone restart this even more difficult but
um... and and doing better on mon
we know that have teachers you can print that
assumes that you don't even have to prepare imprimatur
but it's the interviewing process
that if you don't get to the school that you're going to be in that school system
i'm i'm really glad you made that distinction
uh...
other questions
were there any and ideas and strategies that you heard from others that's
your tables and table conversations that you might think about
trying out our uh... applying in your your contacts
you take away sky mention one that i heard that i think it's huge i'd be
surprised it didn't come up with every table
it was quite clear at the table but i was sitting at
that sometimes politics really get in the way of change but right
where these with you talking world war
and so prevalent
put a message out there to all of us in here
schools are inherently by their nature political institutions
if we want to change schools to improve them
we have to get political
and that's why i like the title of the session or that the theme of the session
that has to do with partnerships as well as pipelines for principle ships in
school leadership
if we don't politically partner
uh... we're not gonna make these changes happen you can do it just by wanting
them to happen so i'd know this is a topic because of that
unfortunately those apps dot in the field of education now have to find
ourselves also as political actors as well
if you want to make change i think it's going to portable
and so i like the partnership listed tricia put together because
those are precisely the folks we have to partner with if we want to make change
happen and and
it's on your list again
uh... thing
but just wait for her first years of terror
what impeded at the bit is we had a week-and-a-half that he was
week-and-a-half notice
before school starts so within a week and a half we had uh... women make
fifty percent of our teachers
and higher back
fifty percent you know new incoming
now they set up for it because we had to wait for final approval from the state i
guess as what i was told
at the end of the year
you know they had all of that they had teachers go to make room for those
people that didn't get accepted back into our school
you really had a early retirement buyout has worked what really went really
happened
so most teachers took it it may be ok vacancies or now
no other high school not disturb can hire anybody into
everything occurs in the settler at hammond
denso within a week and a half we interviewed all of our staff had to get
rid of half
and then we had to start looking for new knows almost simultaneously were don't
you know
that kind of a process
things we looked at teacher tennis teacher performance you know we had all
the records and files in folders and then busting interview
i mean is it difficult process i remember staying late nights
and wondering
uh... i think if dole my home looked like
but uh...
you know it was a
it's a i'd guess that most painstaking you'll be going through it sounds like
a process that you go through because
even though some of those teachers
in my opinion and what i saw
i didn't want to come back it's still a person
and still so much livelihood
the thing that benefited me the most insecure two things in mind one just for
the kids
and two
they are going on but i do have likelihood still
i mean that's how you going to do it
pine
i think that i think brand bandied around that and
i think they heard a lot today about that value of
leaders in leadership and then also
importance of partnerships and building preparing
supporting
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