The Making of a Healthy School

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The Making of a Healthy School

• Staying Motivated and Having Fun!

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Session Objectives

• Discuss elements of successful systems change and
  leadership
• Identify strategies to motivate and engage
  schools/school teams
• Attract a variety of personalities and strengths
  to make your school healthier

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Who is on your team?Who is on your side?

• Think about staff, families, and students in your
  school

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Leadership Skills A Framework

• When a new work group is being formed
• For initiating any organizational change process
  that places greater responsibilities on a work
  group
• James Kouzes and Barry Posner

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The Skills

• Challenging the Process
• Inspiring a Shared Vision
• Enabling Others to Act
• Modeling the Way
• Encouraging the Heart

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Who Can Communicate Your Vision?
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Lessons from the Tipping Point

• The Tipping Point is the moment of critical
  mass, the threshold, the boiling point.
• The Law of the Few
• The Stickiness Factor
• The Power of Context

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The Law of the Few

• Connectors
• Mavens
• Salesmen

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Are you a Connector?

• A Case Study
• The Strength of Weak Ties
• Interactive activity
• Phone book

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Are you a Maven?

• Who or what do we rely on for our information?

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Are you a Salesperson?

• Emotion Contagion
• Circle Exercise
• Lessons Learned
• Little things are as important as big things
• Nonverbal cues are as or more important than
  verbal ones
• Persuasion works in ways we do not appreciate

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Epidemics Require Connectors, Mavens,
Salespeople

• Who is on Your Team?

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Leadership StrategiesWhat Can You Do?

• Challenging the Process
• Inspiring a Shared Vision
• Enabling Others to Act
• Modeling the Way
• Encouraging the Heart

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When you go back to your school

• 3 action steps related to leadership and systems
  change
• 2 things you learned about the role(s) of others
  in creating a healthy school epidemic
• 1 thing you will use to strengthen or build your
  team

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One last thing

• See you
• at the
• Fun Run/Walk!