The Leadership Ladder - So you want to lead? APPA Senior Management Conference

1. The Leadership Ladder So You want to Lead APPA Senior Management Conference September 12th 2009

3. “ If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea” Antoine de Saint-Exupery

4. Leadership - No Recipe I often find inspiration about leadership and how to lead in quotes

9. Let’s Share Everyone has a narrative that shapes their practice

10. Most important, leaders can conceive and articulate goals that lift people out of their petty preoccupations and unite them in pursuit of objectives worthy of their best efforts. John Gardner

12. Power of Student Voice

13. Leadership can be thought of as a capacity to define oneself to others in a way that clarifies and expands a vision of the future. Edwin Friedman

14. So what do effective leaders Do? We have an understanding about what leadership is … Chat with the person next to you

15. Role Model Being a learner Walk the talk Do what you say you are going to do Listen Sincerely and intently to all stakeholders Motivate Give feedback Build Relationship take time to get to know people Think In all sorts of ways

16. My Colleagues Thoughts

17. Let’s Imagine a leaders world like this … What do these voices suggest one cling onto?

18. Leadership Parts I WE IT Developing self as a leader Building relationships/ relating to and with the people Developing strategies, knowledge and understandings to lead effectively Transformational leadership in action SO WHAT

20. “ Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

23. “ A great leader's courage to fulfill their vision comes from passion, not position.” John Maxwell

28. Big thinkers are specialists in creating positive, forward-looking, optimistic pictures in their own minds and in the minds of others. David J. Schwartz

30. If you do not look at things on a large scale, it will be difficult to master strategy. Miyamoto Mursashi

32. The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority. Kenneth Blanchard

33. Leadership in Action Big Picture A big picture examples of leadership in action…

35. In 2005 it was time to revision The stage was set. Creating Urgency - Having a valid need to drive change

38. Being Strategic Big Picture - Where to start?

39. Unpacked LLL Embed/Abandon Vision What does the teaching practice look like? 05 05 Strategic direction Student profile clarity Using images/metaphors Collective AFL Context PL lead teachers Student Empowerment 07 Power of student voice Numeracy PD 06 08 Unpacked Community Split screen thinking Creating a shared language 09 PL school wide focus Audience Specific Cross Curricular Going deep Change influences Change fundamentals Our steps Ahas

40. Change Enablers Keeping it Simple Vision - Collective direction and purpose Student Profile- What will the student leave the school being able to do as a result of the vision principles Teaching Practice – What pedagogical practices are required to ensure that each student will leave after 6 years as the profile outlines

41. A ligning Practice with Belief

42. Intentionally Building Culture

43. Why focus on Culture?

45. You must unite your constituents around a common cause and connect with them as human beings. James Kouzes and Barry Posner

46. Leadership in Action Systems Level What systems and structures are required to enable risk taking, creativity and innovation from the floor?

47. Leadership Structures

48. PD Overview

49. Performance Management Central Belief s – We are all learners, Performance management is maximising both informal and formal opportunities to improve teacher effectiveness and ultimately raise student outcomes. An Effective Performance appraisal process is owned by the individual, evidence is collected to show growth overtime.

50. Tools/Strategies to support effective Leadership Some possibilities…

51. Developing Leadership - Leading Learning

55. I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. Ralph Nader

56. Leadership in Action Some more micro change examples Implementing student led conferences

57. Student Led Conferences

59. What did the students think? Flynn - It’s better than the three way conferences. I prefer it more because I can just talk to my Mum and dad and then they get to talk. Sophie – I think I’d rather be with Student Led Conferences because the three way conferences the teacher was usually the one talking. Kayla - It’s really fun to have 45 minutes to tell your parents about your learning. I feel really happy – it’s really fun. I liked showing my Mum the walls, especially the Topic wall. I most enjoyed getting time to talk to my Mum about my learning. Emily – Flicking through the pages in the Star Learning Book and showing where I am up to in my Maths strategies Comments from room 4 students

61. Life Long Learning Life Long Learner July 05 –What are the qualities of successful self managing learners? Asked Teachers What LLL looked like? Collected Video Data of 100 student responses

62. Growing Teacher Effectiveness - Creating Clarity

66. Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things. Jesse Jackson

68. Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. Harold R. McAlindon

69. If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. John Quincy Adams

70. “ Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.” Max Depree

72. Contact Details Email:sarahm@redbeach.school.nz Blog: [email_address]