HOS Highlights
February 24, 2016
“We succeed only when students succeed. That is our goal. That is our passion. That is our work.” Nate Davis
What's New!
It is important that we begin and end on time. Please begin logging in 10 minutes prior to the session with your prework completed.
We Need Your Intention Statements
- We will be doing a fun exercise with your intention statements during our Leadership Academy #3 this Friday and need to collect your intention statements beforehand. Please complete this form by 5pm EST on Thursday, February 25th.
- Change is in the air here at K12. In preparation for Leadership Academy #3, please view this 10 minute TEDx talk by Chris McGoff. We will be discussing this inspirational video, so be sure to listen to it today.
Head of School in the Spotlight
Andrei Nichols
School: Michigan Virtual Charter Academy
Began with K12: Fall 2015
Superpower: Encouraging others to remain positive in spite of barriers
Fun Fact: Youngest black male to teach at Ferris State University in Big Rapids, MI (24 at the time)
Advice to Leaders:
The following is an excerpt from a speech I delivered to a group of educators and dignitaries: “ …… Ironically, when I think of today’s schools I think of nuclear power plants, toxic chemical factories, and commercial aircraft maintenance. I say to myself, “Wouldn’t it be dynamic if we had fail-safe schools that treated the failure of a single child as equally tragic as a nuclear meltdown, a chemical spill, or an airplane crash?” We must urge our schools to model themselves after such high-reliability systems that constantly drive themselves to eliminate failures ……… And our educational leaders must do a better job of ensuring that our schools are achieving at optimal capacity and running toward peak performance……”
Quad 4: Highest Impact and Highest Risk
Check out the Ted Talk: Quad 4: Realm of Your Highest Impact and Highest Risk
Change is in the air here at K12. In preparation for Leadership Academy #3, please view this inspirational video.The 5 Dysfunctions of a Charter School Board
Brian Carpenter, National Charter Institute, has provided the five dysfunctions of charter boards. Do you find any of these present with your boards? For the next 5 issues we will take a look at each of these and see it can be observed in your boards.
#1 Managing vs. Governing
#2 Using Individual vs. Group Authority
#3 Creating "Revolving Door Accountability"
#4 Spending Time on Administrivia
#5 Not Developing Itself
In this second week of reviewing the 5 dysfunctions of boards, we will review a tricky area which is the board member who takes a more self-serving or direct role in the affairs of the schools. Carpenter gives the example of a board member who ordered a school leader to install a bike rack because her daughter wanted to ride her bike to school. Now to some of us this appears to be a common sense request however it diminishes the separation between governance and administration. In most cases this is confined to one board member, however if left unchecked it could become problematic. Take also the example of the board member(s) who speak out on the employment status of a staff member when a thorough investigation has not been completed by the administration and decision by the full board has not been made. “Devising proper lines of authority and requiring that individual board members adhere to them by casting them as board policy can go a long way toward eliminating “loose cannon” problems.”
Recommended Reading: Boards That Make a Difference, 2006 Carver
Cheers to You!
Take an opportunity to celebrate a colleague(s) via our weekly "Cheers" and shout outs. Here are this week's cheers:
I want to cheer on Nich Sutherland for his leadership in opening Wisconsin’s First Career and Technical Education online school. Destinations Career Academy of Wisconsin announces exclusive partnership with Wisconsin Operating Engineers and Fox Valley Technical College for pre-apprenticeship, hands-on training, and dual credit.
We would like to highlight your Cheers in the next HOS Highlights newsletter. Feel free to cheer for regional teams as well as your fellow HOS's. Please submit your cheers on the form below.
Change Management Corner
Prework for Leadership Academy#3: Change Management
*This information is recurring from last week.
Please complete the following prework prior to February 26th when you join your colleagues for Leadership Academy 3. The following statements (Prework) come from Laurie Erdman's Presentation on Change Management at our HOS Summit in January.
- Answer/journal the questions on slide 7. If there are things you are not bought into about the upcoming change, determine what you need to do or who you need to speak with to get yourself there so you can create buy-in.
- Next answer/journal the questions on slide 10-15. These questions will help see where you might have resistance or where you need to shore up support or infrastructure.
- On Slide 16, from the leading list identify your strength and your weakness. Reach out for support on your weakness.
- Finally, do the work as described on slides 20 through 24. Step 1 is about having conversations with your staff 1-1 to ensure they all have a shared perspective of why they are working for your school. These conversations will also help you understand what is important to them and to reconnect them with that. Steps 2-4 are work on your own – setting an intention and getting clear (at a high level) what needs to be done to close that gap from a change management perspective.
- If you have any questions please reach out to Laurie.
Past issues of the HOS Highlights
Leadership Academies and HOS meetings Dates
Leadership Academy #2
· October 9th
~October 23rd *HOS Call and Leadership Academy
· November 6th
~November 20th *HOS Call Only
~December 18th *HOS Call Only
~January 22nd *HOS Call Only
~February 12th *HOS Call Only
Leadership Academy #3
· February 26th
~March 11th *HOS Call and Leadership Academy
· March 25th
Leadership Academy #4
· April 15th
~April 29th **HOS Call and Leadership Academy
· May 13th
~May 27th *HOS Call Only
Leadership Academy #5
· June 10th
~ June 24th *HOS Call and Leadership Academy
· July 8th
~July 29th- *HOS Call Only
Reoccurring Information Below
Leadership Academy Titan Pads
Amanda Conley,
Cassie Barton,
Josh Williams,
Katrina Abston,
Lynn Barr,
Mark Christiano,
Matt Arkin
Faith Shanholtzer,
Kelly Van Sande,
Kendall Schroeder,
Josh Williams,
Marcus Moore,
Nicholaus Sutherland,
Nicole Tiley,
Lynn Barr,
Sara Baker
Pam Jonidis,
Beth Lorigan,
Caroline McIntosh,
David Crook,
Ryan Clepper,
Stacey Hutchings,
Steven Hoff
Laurie Erdman,
Brandy Osborn,
Byron Ernest,
Elizabeth Roth,
JD McMahan
Joel Medley,
Theresa Gallagher
Scott Sides,
Sheryl Tatum
Sheila Sheibler,Cherry Daniel,
Jeffrey Bush,
Jessie Thoman,
John Huber,
Kelly Edginton,
Monti Pittman,
Theresa Gallagher
Suzanne Sloane,
Theresa Gallagher,
Veronica Clemons
The Leadership Academy Basics
- Weekly Leadership Academies begin at Noon EST every Friday afternoon and run for 90 minutes
- Here is the participant link.
- It is highly recommended that you participate in the weekly academies via BBC because the classes are going to be interactive. Your experience will not be as rich if you join via phone only
- Pertinent school services information that was typically presented during Friday HOS calls will be shared via regional calls, the weekly HOS newsletter, or monthly national HOS calls
- This newsletter will have all of the information you need for the upcoming training and will arrive in your inbox every Wednesday morning
iLead@K12/School Leadership Development & Support Team
2015/16 Leadership Academy Content and Focus
2015-2016 Leadership Standards and Practices
Leadership Academy #1- "Explore U": YOU are the focus of Leadership Academy #1 entitled, Explore "U". Throughout the first seven weeks we will focus on your strengths as indicated in the Myers-Briggs assessment most of you took in January, 2015. Throughout the cycle you will build upon your strengths and learn to leverage those strengths to minimize weaknesses.
Leadership Academy #2- "Build It and They Will Come": Your knowledge and expertise will be leveraged to build out content for one of the leadership strands. Each School leader chooses one standard to work with over the course of the 7 week cycle. The goal will be to codify your expertise within the leadership strand to build a complete leadership Academy cycle in your area chosen area.
Leadership Academies #3-5-: Once the content is built, you will choose one strand to focus on for the remaining cycles. Choice is built into the process and we would like you to choose two standards. We suggest you work with your RVP/DRVP to choose one leadership strand that you would like additional support in. The strands include: Strategic Leadership, Instructional Leadership, Community, Human Resources, and Organizational Management.
iLead@K12 Team
The iLEAD team leads the design, development, execution, and evaluation of national programs that build exceptional school leadership across K12’s network of managed schools. The team coordinates school, regional and national efforts to improve leadership practice and school outcomes.