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Hello everyone, I'm very excited to be here. I'm Candace Raskin and I'm from Minnesota
State University Mankato and i'm a professor in the college of education,
educational leadership. And a great portion of my work is around licensing adminastrators.
But i'm here today in this Ignite session to talk to you and
hopefully ignite you about some of the work that we're doing for the center
of engaged leadership. It is in a marvelous center where we're allowed to partner
and do really significant work in partnerships the school districts.
I have three colleagues with me and we're going to talk about four different areas that the
center for engaged leadership works in.
My part, what i'm going to talk to you about is a new program we started this past year.
In studying principalship
we know that we get our principals ready
to a certain level in university and then they go into the field we really
thought about how could we capture them how can we surround them and make sure
that they had
a place to learning continue to grow while their doing the job and that's what the
center for engaged leadership early career institute is. We have
thirty five principles in the first five years that their principalship
and they're with us for two years to really engage
in improving their practice in the schools
so we work on communication, we work on using data. We work on the political aspect.
We're partnering with them
ensuring that they put their footprint
in a way that makes them courageous skill and highly effective leaders.
I have a couple of them that are going to talk a little bit about their start with us in the
Center for engage institute, early career principal institute.
Ya, the institute's
here is really helpful for me because you we engage in conversations that
I think are void in public education you know how do we really meet the needs of
all kids
I think we often say that, across the system
no matter what system we're in
we want to do the very best for all kids
but at the end the day when we reflect on what we really did, it really
isn't enough
I am feeling
energized and feeling refreshed
with new ideas
It is affirming some of the work that i have started as an early career principal in
my school
but it is also reminding me of the foundation that needs to be laid by me
as a leader. And the foundation I'm talking about is really my
professional and personal beliefs, and how everything that happens in the
school is really related to my beliefs and that if i don't have that as a
solid foundation that i'm not gonna get as far with
the results i want to see my student achievement
and so for me the cohort has really
helped me ground myself even in these first few months of school
I feel like i have been more
transparent with my beliefs and i think the staff has seen a big change in me
in my behaviors and my day to day interactions, whether it is
continuing to problem solve with structural changes in the school
or a conversation with the school secretary or clerical employees
about a student situation
but it's all going back to you that strong foundation of who i am as a
leader and what I'm bringing
to the table in my school
As a future principal of St Paul public schools i think this experience is awesome because I get the chance to
collaborate with people outside of the district as well as in the
district, get to learn from them, get to
increase my skills as a communicator as an educator
as a learner and
use what I learn in the program to educate our students, staff, faculty
and parents, everyone involved.
As you can see we are very
fortunate to work with these amazing early career principals
They are going to become
fabulous leaders in the future
Next we want to talk about the curriculum that we put together to work with these principals
over their two year period with us
The cirriculum that we developed
for the institute
was centered around learning strands and there are eight learning strands. The first
learning stands is equity and achievement
and here we explore the relationship between race and student achievement
we looked at developing self
we know it's critical for early career leaders or any leader to really
understand themselves and have it three sixty view of how they're doing their
work in the schools. Next we help them with developing others how do we help
them mentor how do we help them have the ability to have this courageous
conversations
Woven throughout the cirriculum is the change process learning to navigate deal with and
facilitate change so the schools and students can achieve
we look at political leadership helping them navigate the political leadership of
education and still stay true to that moral imperative
communication is vital as a leader in schools and so woven throughout the cirriculum
again is the different ways that you communicate with your varied audiences
the use of data
we help them learn to use it to track it and use it continuously in looking at all
their populations of students and how they achieve and finally we keep on the front
burner the high leverage leadership practices the best practices that are in
the field of education and leadership
Our institute is committed to
helping early career principals gain the skills and become the transformational leaders
that we need in K - twelve schools, to improve student achievement.
I hope that this presentation will ignite conversations in your university
and how you are supporting
early career principals.