1. Leading
Systemic By Design
Change: Not Chance
Patricia MacNeill, Ed.D.
Assistant Superintendent
Greene County Schools
Snow Hill, NC
www.gcsedu.org

2. WHO WE ARE
•Five Schools
•3,251 Students
•212 Teachers
•43% African
American, 33%
White, 22% Latino
• 72% Free &
Reduced Lunch
•Both low wealth
and small & rural

3. Our Shared Instructional Vision
To create a
community of learners
in which
administrators,
teachers, students and
parents are all active
participants in the
teaching/learning
process.
To use technology for
the delivery of quality,
student-centered
instruction.

4. Building a Learning Community
Communication Sharing Leadership
Building Capacity
Passion
The Learning
Environment
Best in the World Economic Engine
Consistency & Quality of Teaching
Continuity Balanced with
Providing of Programs Providing
Standards
a Staff
Framework Development
GREENE COUNTY SCHOOLS
THE HEDGEHOG CONCEPT
L’Esperance, Frey, Gabbard (2002)
Adapted from Collins (2001)

5. Critical Balance
for
Cultural Change

6. Critical Balance
Infrastructure
“What good is it if it
doesn’t work?”
Cultural Change

7. Critical Balance
Infrastructure Content
“What good is it if it “What good is it if it
doesn’t work?” isn’t educational?”
Cultural Change

8. Critical Balance
Infrastructure Content
“What good is it if it “What good is it if it
doesn’t work?” isn’t educational?”
Staff Development
“What good is it if
teachers don’t use it?”
Cultural Change

9. Set Expectations
a rks
m
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Be
•“Begin with the End
rk in Mind” Stephen Covey
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V Fram •Provide a Framework
•Allow for creativity
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accomplishing goals

10. The Need
Staff development
that is . . .
Sustained
On-going
Standards based
Relevant
Timely

11. Design Principles
An Instructional Technologist and Literacy
Facilitator at each school
A system-wide instructional team led by
the Assistant Superintendent for Instruction
A research-based comprehensive staff
development plan aligned to system goals
A vanguard group for major initiatives

12. The Advisory Council
A school-based team
focused on instruction
Weekly meetings
Participants
Principal and Assistant
Principals
Instructional Technologist
Literacy Facilitator
Media Coordinator
School Counselor
Exceptional Children & ESL
representatives

13. Content
System-Wide Initiatives
Literacy
Technology Integration
Comprehensive Counseling/
College Access
Numeracy
Creativity
School Improvement
Goals
North Carolina Standard
Course of Study

14. Delivery
Modeling of best
instructional practices
Blending of content
and pedagogy
Evaluation by
participants
Smart sheets for
reference

15. Smart Sheets
Tiger Features: Spotlight and Smart Folders
iBits Smart Sheet
Sequential steps Spotlight allows you to search your iBook for a file, application, picture, word in a
document, etc. The icon is located in the top right corner. Just click it to search.
Type in a word.
Example: If you want
Pictures/screen
to find all documents
that have the word
dinosaur in it, just type
in dinosaur.
shots If you double-click on
one of the documents, it
will open and the word
you searched (dinosaur)
will be highlighted.
Arrows for
emphasis Note that you can search files created during a certain time span.
Specific You can also search by the other criteria listed. Explore and see which way
works best for you.
information Now let’s take it one step further. Suppose that the search you did on
“dinosaurs” is something you would like to go back to often. Turn to the
reverse side of this sheet to learn about “Smart Folders.”
JHP SHP 2/9/06

16. Communication
Monthly
instructional
newsletters
from media,
literacy, and
technology
School-to-
school
sharing at GREENE EARLY COLLEGE
OCTOBER 2007
instructional Upcom
in g Even
ts
meetings Oct. 15
School Pictures
Students should remember to dress for
pictures. Orders will be taken after
proofs are returned.
iCal
E Oct. 17
H A N D S !O N S C I E N C
ples
lect soil sam PSAT
students col
All GEC students will take the PSAT.
Testing will begin at 7:45, so please be
Learn and Serve Grant sure students arrive on time.
scheduling
Oct. 18
Renewed for 2007!2008 Early Release
Students will be released at 12:45. Staff
Na tu re Tra ils a n d Historic Tal es will be involved in professional
development.
ast year"s successful service
L learning e#orts have resulted
in the renewal of Greene Early
College"s Learn and Serve America
Tentative plans for this year"s service
learning include clearing more of the
Oct. 19
Teacher Workday
creek trail and building a kayak There will be no school for students on
Grant, Nature Trails and Historic
landing.

17. eMail
Wikis
Communication
Blogs
Discussion
Boards
Class Pages
Group Pages
Parent Alerts
Calendar
Surveys
Lesson
Planner

18. “Leadership is the
professional work of
everyone in the school.”
“Everyone has the right,
Share responsibility, and ability to
be a leader.”
Leadership “How we define leadership
influences how people will
participate.” Linda Lambert
Building leadership capacity
is a necessary component of
sustained school
improvement.

19. SCHOOL
CURRICULUM
CLASSROOM
TEACHER
SCHOOL
ADMINISTRATOR
What is my
leadership
role within a
1:1
initiative?
DISTRICT
DISTRICT
ADMINISTRATOR TECHNOLOGY
DIRECTOR
DISTRICT CURRICULUM/INSTRUCTION

20. CHALLENGES
• Convincing teachers to share
instructional leadership with
students
• Coaching students to become active
in and responsible for their own
learning
• Providing quality staff development
and planning time
• Supporting teachers with a
sensitivity to comfort level and
experience
• Providing benchmarks and
guidelines

21. EVALUATE
• “Inspect what you
expect”
• Engage in on-going
collaborative evaluations
of all initiatives
• Refine plans
continuously over time

22. Collaboration Model
Greene County Schools
The Learning Community Parent
Advisory
Council
Federal and State
Leadership Parents
Administrators
Individual
Board of Assistant Advisory Leadership Teachers
Education and Superintendent Council Team Committees
and/or Teams
Superintendent Instruction
Instructional
Community Team Students
Communication in A Culture of Change
PFM/ 08-14-05
Revised 08-10-06

23. Nurture the
Learning
Community
• Engage all participants in active
inquiry
• Make administrators, teachers,
students, and parents active
participants in the learning
process
•Encourage innovation
•Share and celebrate successes

24. The Process of Change
The goal is not to
Systemic change is a innovate the most
multi-year process It is not to have the
and keeps you best ideas
engaged Appreciate the
in continuous inquiry implementation dip
for improvement. Redefine resistance
Reculturing is the
name of the game
Never a checklist,
always complexity
Michael Fullan

25. Congressional Testimony
“Technology
helped
me to create,
learn, explain,
document,
and analyze
the different
aspects
of my life.”
- Abel Real, Graduate,
Greene Central High School

26. There is a Siletz Indian proverb that
captures why so many of us love teaching -
One who learns from one who
is learning drinks from a
running stream.
We read and write and stay current on best
practices so that our students can “drink
from a running stream.”