Raymond J' McNulty

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LEADERSHIP SKILLS FOR THE 21st CENTURY

• Raymond J. McNulty
• Senior Vice President

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ICLE Program of Work

• Identify the essential characteristics of
  successful schools and the most rapidly improving
  schools
• Best Practices/Research to assist schools
• Organize our learning into useful tools

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Themes

• Opening Thoughts
• Traits of Top Performers
• Key Strategies
• Symptoms of Decline
• Actions for Individuals and Schools
• 6. Advice

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OPENING THOUGHTS
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• Not an expert
• Im a learner
• I change my opinion / what I do is based on what
  I learn.

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In times of change, learners inherit the Earth
while the learned find themselves beautifully
equipped to deal with a world that no longer
exists.- Eric Hoffer, American Social Writer
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• Learning is the work for everyone.

- Michael Fullan
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• Learning is developing the individual and the
  organization day after day within the culture.

- Michael Fullan
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Motivation is a key ingredient for success in
learning.
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The primary aim of education is not to enable
students to do well in school, but to help them
do well in the lives they lead outside of school.
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Generation Gap
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21st Century

• We are already there!!

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• The Internet has created the greatest generation
  gap since the advent of rock and roll.

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This Generation

• Teenagers surveyed
• use 4 5 active e-mail addresses
• nearly 60 would rather use e-mail than a
  telephone
• are likely to have 6 applications running at once
  on their PC
• 26 of U.S. students access a foreign news
  service as a primary source for news

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This Generation

• 96 of U.S. students surveyed say school is
  important to their success, but only 20 believe
  it is meeting their needs
• Over 20 of students reported doing Internet
  research for parent purchases

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This Generation

• The killer application for todays students
  isnt You Tube, Face Book, My Space, Google,
  Moodle, Pod-casting or some Wiki-site
• For digital teens, the one and only killer app
  is speed
• Consider this

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This Generation

• The fastest growing segment of computer-users
  today in the U.S. is 5 to 7 year olds

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Question

• How do we teach our children to live and work in
  this society?

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• We have to collaborate to get better.

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Theres no silver bullet!!NO EPIPHANY
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Comprehending Literacy in a Global Era

• Quantitative Literacy
• Identify numerical representations and ideas
• Perform computations and solve problems either
  alone or sequentially
• Use numbers embedded in printed materials
• Act with mathematical intent to complete tasks
• Technological Literacy
• Navigate and search using electronic sources
• Production and problem solving
• Compare and use ever-changing media and
  information
• Act upon media and technology based information

• Prose Literacy
• Search
• Comprehend
• Use continuous text
• Documents Literacy
• Search
• Comprehend
• Act upon
• Use non-continuous text in various formats

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Taking Action with Text, Media and Writing

• Quantitative Literacy
• Checkbook balancing
• Tip calculation
• Order form completion
• Interest calculations
• Benefit and nutrition comparison calculations
• Advertisement comparing prices and other data
• Technological Literacy
• Filing taxes online
• Travel arrangements
• Photo management
• Document assembly and creation
• Personal digital libraries of music and other
  media

• Prose Literacy
• Editorials
• News stories
• Brochures
• Instructional materials
• Document Literacy
• Job applications
• Payroll forms
• Transportation schedules
• Maps
• Tables
• Drug or food labels

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Traits of Top Performers
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Break the self-limiting mindset

• MENTAL TOUGHNESS

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Roger Bannister
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Love pressure

• Devote yourself passionately to improvement

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Focus on what you can control

• Dont get distracted

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Fixate on the long term

• The trick is to meticulously plan
• short- term goals

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• Break the self limiting mindset
• Love pressure
• Focus on what you can control
• Fixate on the long term

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Key Strategies
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Key Strategies

• Innovation
• Leadership and Leadership Density
• Attend to the Big Three
• Coherence

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1. Innovation
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A Story.

• Not a bad idea, but to earn a grade more than a
  C, the idea has to be viable! (Yale Professor)

• Fredrick Smith
• The idea FedEx

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In the beginners mind there are many
possibilities in the experts mind there are
few.
-Shurnyu Suzuki
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Sustaining Innovation And Disruptive Innovation
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System
Innovation
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Sustaining Innovation
Disruptive Innovation
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Coherence
Fidelity
Adaptable
Scalable
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Coherence
Fidelity
Adaptable
Scalable
Sustaining Innovation
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Coherence
Fidelity
Adaptable
Scalable
Disruptive Innovation
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BANKING

• Sears
• IBM
• Digital. In Search of Excellence
• Xerox

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2. Leadership and Leadership Density
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Leadership is action, not position.

• - Donald H. McGannon

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Too many managers, not enough leaders. Managers
keep the current system in place and minimize
risk.
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The fundamental task of a leader is to develop
confidence in advance of victory, in order to
attract the investments that make victory
possible.
-Rosabeth Moss Kanter
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INTEGRATIVE THINKING
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How Leaders Think

• Not what they do but what produces their actions.
• Ability to hold two opposing ideas in their heads
  at once.
• You must fight thinking either/or.
• Integrative thinkers dont mind messy problems.
  In fact, they welcome complexity, because thats
  where the best answers come from.

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Leaders know how to wield the right change tools,
at the right time? The secret is to gauge how
strongly your people agree on 1. Where they
want to go? 2. How to get there?
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Broad consensus
Where they want to go?
No consensus
Broad consensus
No consensus
How they want to get there?
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3. Attend to the Big Three
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What are they?

• LITERACY
• NUMERACY
• WELL-BEING OF THE LEARNER

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4. Coherence
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System Coherence

• 1. Engaging 21st Century Learners
• 2. Rigorous and Relevant Content
• 3. Teachers Knowledge and Skills

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Mission

• Why we exist

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Googles Mission

• To organize the worlds information and make it
  universally accessible and useful.

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Values

• What we believe in and how we will behave

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Vision

• What we want to be

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Strategy

• Can you say what your strategy will be?

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Components of School Excellence
Learning Criteria to Support 21st Century
Learners
Rigor/Relevance Framework

• Embrace a Common Vision and Goals
• Inform Decisions Through Data Systems
• Empower Leadership Teams to Take Action and
  Innovate
• Clarify Student Learning Expectations
• Adopt Effective Instructional Practices
• Address Organizational Structures
• Monitor Progress/Improve Support Systems
• Refine Process on an Ongoing Basis

Core Academic Learning Stretch Learning Learner
Engagement Personal Skill Development
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Success Beyond the Test

• Core Academics
• Stretch Learning
• Learner Engagement
• Personal Skill Development

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Core
Stretch
LearnerEngagement
Personal Skill Development
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Core
Dimensions of the Learning Criteria
Stretch
Learner Engagement
Personal Skill Development
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Implementation Components for School Excellence
Embrace Common Vision and Goals
Inform Decisions Through Data Systems
Empower Leadership Teams to Take Action and
Innovate
Clarify Student Learning Expectations
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Implementation Components for School Excellence
Adopt Effective Instructional Practices
Address Organizational Structures
Monitor Progress / Improve Support Systems
Refine Process on an Ongoing Basis
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Key Strategies

• Innovation
• Leadership and Leadership Density
• Attend to the Big Three
• Coherence

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SYMPTOMS OF DECLINE
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Twelve Symptoms of a School in Decline

• Symptom 1
• Lack of leadership The principal is not
  providing focus and direction around addressing
  key priorities.

Daniel Duke, University of VA
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Twelve Symptoms of a School in Decline

• Symptom 2
• More rules and harsher punishments
• Schools in decline often experience more student
  behavior problems, sending them into a downward
  spiral of increasingly harsh disciplinary
  measures and loss of instructional time and
  trusting relationships.

Daniel Duke, University of VA
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Twelve Symptoms of a School in Decline

• Symptom 3
• Lost Focus The School lacks clear academic
  priorities. If everything seems to be a priority
  time nothing is a priority. This leads to wasted
  resources.

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Twelve Symptoms of a School in Decline

• Symptom 4
• Poor Alignment Classroom instruction is not
  lined up with state standards and tests, and
  students are blindsided.

Daniel Duke, University of VA
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Twelve Symptoms of a School in Decline

• Symptom 5
• Inadequate monitoring of progress at the
  student, classroom and site level.

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Twelve Symptoms of a School in Decline

• Symptom 6
• Ineffective staff development Schools that
  begin to decline are frequently the recipients of
  one-shot inservice programs and staff development.

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Twelve Symptoms of a School in Decline

• Symptom 7
• Lower staff expectations Teachers increasingly
  give up on struggling students and dont hold
  themselves to high standards of professional
  practice.

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Twelve Symptoms of a School in Decline

• Symptom 8
• Undifferentiated assistance Non-I.E.P.
  students who are having difficulty are assigned
  to generic supplementary programs with a lot of
  repetition and extended practice.

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Twelve Symptoms of a School in Decline

• Symptom 9
• Rigid daily schedule The inflexibility of the
  daily schedule prevents students from getting
  timely and targeted help.

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Twelve Symptoms of a School in Decline

• Symptom 10
• Hasty hiring It is tempting for principals in
  declining schools to approach the hiring process
  fatalistically.

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Twelve Symptoms of a School in Decline

• Symptom 11
• Increased class size Class sizes mushroom,
  making it difficult for even the best teachers to
  be productive.

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Twelve Symptoms of a School in Decline

• Symptom 12
• Overreliance on untrained helpers Programs to
  help struggling students are often staffed by
  volunteers, teacher aides, and unqualified
  personnel.

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ACTIONS FOR INDIVIDUALS AND SCHOOLS
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Four Guidelines for Action as an Individual

• Act and talk as if you were in control and
  project confidence
• Take credit and some blame
• Talk about the future
• Be specific about the few things that matter and
  keep repeating them
• -Pfeffer Sutton 2006

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Four Recommendations for the School

• Signal the need for dramatic change with strong
  leadership
• Maintain a consistent focus on improving
  instruction
• Engineer some quick wins early
• Build a committed staff

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ADVICE
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HOPE is not a PLAN
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Is my desire for success to improve my system or
classroom strong enough to prompt me to change my
thinking?
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The things we fear most in organizations,
fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances are the
primary sources of innovation.

• - Meg Wheatley

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LEADERSHIP SKILLS FOR THE 21st CENTURY

• Raymond J. McNulty
• Senior Vice President