HOS Highlights
March 2, 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 you attend every Leadership Academy. Here is the recording for last week's Leadership Academy. If you can not attend live, please send a note to your RVP in advance letting them know you cannot watch it live and will watch the recording.
- We are looking for 2-3 BBC experts who can help subject matter experts with BBC facilitation during Leadership Academies 4-5. You would still be part of the Leadership Academy content and discussions. If you are interested, please email Brandi
- Next Monday 3/7 Teacher Pulse Check #4 is launching. Results will be sent out on 3/14.
We hope you are diving in and building your change management plan. Remember, you don’t have to do this alone. You can leverage your small group (group listings are below) for feedback, brainstorming and problem solving. To facilitate the exchange of feedback, you will be sharing your draft change management plan with your group members and receiving feedback during our March 25th session. We ask that you send your change management plan to your group the week of March 14th and no later than March 18th.
Groupings for Leadership Academy #3
Head of School in the Spotlight
Kelly Van Sande
School: Arizona Virtual Academy & Insight Academy of Arizona
Began with K12: 2008
Superpower: Organization
Fun Fact: I’m a classically trained pianist and vocalist (who doesn’t put her music degree to any use these days!)
Advice to Leaders: Listen. Listen to what your team has to say and be willing to consider new ideas to approach difficult situations. Listen to teachers and staff; they work with our students on a daily basis and often have a very different understanding of student needs than those who are not in the classroom with them each day.
Quad 4: Highest Impact and Highest Risk
Check out this training from Harvard Business Review for 5 steps to a great presentation. Please reflect on the following question:
- What is one thing I can practice today that will improve my ability to present tomorrow?
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 3rd week, the discussion centers on continual changes in leadership known as the revolving door. Often this can simply be the ongoing perceptions of the school leadership. This is created when the board hires a school leader without any forethought as to how he or she is to be held accountable. It may also occur when an established school leader is not evaluated on an ongoing basis. Once a board knows what it wants known here as “ends” (or in more recognizable term: outcomes) it can move forward on holding school leadership accountable. “A good starting point for determining ends is for every board member to read the contract that exists between the board and the organization that approves it to operate and receive state funds (i.e., its authorizer or sponsor). These contractually agreed-upon outcomes should be the minimal basis of CEO (school leader) accountability.” The board should read all the contracts and agreements at least annually.
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 Laurie Erdman and the HOS who helped build the Change Management content. The training was interactive and we had time to discuss things that were important.
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.