Administrators Academy

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Administrators Academy

• November 8, 2006

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• Improved learning
• Each child
• Each teacher
• Each administrator
• Each parent
• No exceptions
• No excuses

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Purpose for today

• Continue to develop a shared understanding of
  what high quality interactions between teachers
  and students look like.
• Develop a shared understanding of the language
  and instructional needs of EL students based on
  writing.
• Begin to develop an understanding of the key
  tasks of instructional leadrship.
• Participate in sessions where effective learning
  environments are being modeled.
• Engage in culturally responsive and relevant
  pedagogy that addresses El and SEL students.

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Superintendents Charge

• To fundamentally improve the quality of the
  interaction between each teacher and each student
  in order to create critical thinkers prepared to
  participate in a complex and diverse society

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Instructional Leadership
Culture
Tasks of Leadership
Stakeholders
Capacity
Instructional Core
Strategy
Structures
Systems
Creating the conditions and developing the
capacities for effective teaching and learning
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Instructional Core
Instructional Content
Teachers
Students
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Norms for the conversation

• At your table, review norms to help guide this
  mornings conversation.

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• Based on your learning, describe what high
  quality interactions between students and
  teachers look like that create critical thinkers
  and learners in Mathematics? How will we develop
  a common understanding of what these
  interactions look like?
• Think
• Quick write
• Pair, share
• Table talk

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Tasks of Leadership

• After reading the School Leadership Rubrics
  introduction page, discuss what these tasks have
  to do with fundamentally improving the
  interactions between teachers and students in
  mathematics.

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Todays Learning

• As you participate in todays teaching and
  learning, reflect on your understanding of the
  Superintendents Charge as well as the
  instructional leadership and distributed
  leadership necessary to fundamentally improve
  instruction.
• Additionally, consider how we will identify and
  meet the needs of EL learners throughout todays
  learning.

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Michael Fullan

• It is about learning to learn, about becoming
  independent thinkers and learners. It is about
  problem solving, teamwork, knowledge of the
  world, adaptability, and comfort in a global
  system of technologies, conflict and complexity.
  It is about the joy of learning and the pleasure
  and productivity of using ones learning in all
  facets of work and life.