instructional leadership: creating the conditions #leadership20

Instructional Leadership

“Creating the Conditions”

#leadership20

Chris Wejr@chriswejr

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ABOUT ME

Kent Elementary School Agassiz, BC

For each student to master core skills, develop their strengths and interests and

become a confident learner.

“We cannot motivate others… we can only work to

create the conditions for people to motivate themselves.”

--

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1. What does instructional leadership mean to you?

2. How do we create the conditions for effective school instructional leadership?

3. What are some ideas we can share to help build more instructional leadership in schools?

Today We Will Reflect Upon:

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Instructional Leadership is….

Instructional Leadership

Alberta Principal Quality Standards

• demonstrates a sound understanding of current pedagogy and curriculum • implements strategies for addressing standards of student achievement • ensures that student assessment and evaluation practices throughout the

school are fair, appropriate and balanced • implements effective supervision and evaluation to ensure that all

teachers consistently meet the Alberta Teaching Quality Standard • ensures that appropriate pedagogy is utilized in response to various

dimensions of student diversity • ensures that students have access to appropriate programming based on

their individual learning needs • recognizes the potential of new and emerging technologies, and enables

their meaningful integration in support of teaching and learning • ensures that teachers and other staff communicate and collaborate with

parents and community agencies, where appropriate, to support student learning

• supports the use of community resources to enhance student learning.

Instructional

Leader ship

Pedagogical Leadership: “a kind of ‘leading’ that often walks behind the one who is ‘led’”

-- T.J. Sergiovanni

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• Shared purpose• Empowered teachers• Fostered collaboration and collegiality• Supported risk taking and innovation• Helped teachers become inquiry oriented• Provided resources and time for professional growth

Effective Principals:

From Blase and Blase study of 800+ teachers (2004)

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“You need management to build a house but only leadership can make it into a home.”

Bruce Beairsto

Teacher Leadership

The old model of formal, one-person leadership leaves the substantial talents of teachers largely untapped...

Leadership is the professional work of everyone in the school.

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Focusing on Strengths

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Motivation: Creating the Conditions

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Professional Autonomy

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Relationships

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Providing

Resources

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Moving from “Can we…?”

…to “HOW can we…?”

Teach

With

Teachers

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Learn

Educators are gradually redefining the role of the principal from instructional leader with a focus on teaching to leader of a

professional community with a focus on learning.-- Rick Dufour

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Leadership Within Staff

Share. Be a Connector.

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Recognition

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Beyond the lens of surveillance

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Supervision For Learning

Difficult Conversations

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Curriculum

and

Assessment

Numbers as

Information

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Family

Communication

TO vs WITHImage: http://flic.kr/p/691uEj

Creating a Vision

from Within

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Leading With Our

Linchpins

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Be Vulnerable

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Being rather than knowing requires showing up and letting ourselves be

seen. It requires us to dare greatly, to be vulnerable.

Brene Brown

Oops!

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Instructional LeadershipCreating the Conditions

• Balance effective leadership and

management

• Encourage leadership from within

• Relationships

• Provide Resources

• Model

• Learn

• Be the connector

• Provide Feedback

• Stay current

• Develop and promote a shared vision

Personal Reflections

for Growth

• How do I create more opportunities for people to connect and learn together (PLC) with the current structural constraints?

• How can I better share the great practices/stories of individuals without creating animosity?

• What can I do to create more effective time in classrooms?

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Acknowledgements

Bruce BeairstoScott BenwellJacquie Taylor

Roxanne WatsonStan Watchorn

Karen NelsonStaff of Kent Elementary

Connect With Me

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