Cosmological Leadership

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Cosmological Leadership

• Lindsey Pollock, Principal
• Houston Independent School District
• Garden Oaks Elementary
• Montessori Magnet with
• an emphasis on Environmental Sciences

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Professional Journey

• Private and Public school background
• Educational perspectives
• LMSW Licensed Masters in Social Work
• M.Ed. Educational Leadership
• M.Ed Montessori Integrative Learning
• Montessori found me (again) - GOE
• Federal grant application - MSAP
• Transition to an all-campus Montessori Magnet
• Fidelity to Montessori in a public setting

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Garden Oaks Elementary

• Traditional neighborhood school since 1932
• Montessori program 1994 parents/district
• 2008 arrival
• Began Montessori administrator credential at
  Houston Montessori in summer 2009
• Enrolled in Endicott program that fall
  completed program in Sept 2011 thesis
• Leadership for Public Montessori Schools A
  Cosmological Perspective
• Endicott address

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Who are we?

• Public school
• 69 free and reduced lunch
• 65 Hispanic, 10 African-American, 22 White and
  3 Asian
• 98 average daily attendance
• 650 students
• 20 Montessori (9 Childrens House, 8 Lower
  Elementary and 3 Upper Elementary)
• 7 Traditional classrooms (1st 5th)
• Parents send their very best!

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Garden Oaks Elementary

• Video Clip

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Video Clip

• Garden Oaks Elementary
• www.houstonisd.org

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Knotted Up

• Divide into groups of 6-10 people. Each group
  forms a tight circle, standing and facing each
  other.
• Everyone extends their hands into the circle and
  by intermingling their arms, grasps hands with
  other members of the group. Be sure that the two
  hands you are holding does not belong to the same
  person.
• The groups goal untie the knot which results.
  Member of the group physically climb over/ under/
  through each others arms to untie the knots.

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What is Leadership?

• What are the contexts in which leaders function?
• What are terms you think of when you hear the
  word leadership?

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Who are leaders?Why do we need leaders?

• Where are your leaders? How do you measure
  leadership?
• What is the difference between leadership and
  management?
• Is there a difference in Montessori leaders? How
  are Montessori leaders different?

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Schools as Businesses

• Input and output
• Teachers, curriculum and students
• Measurable outcomes vs. moral imperatives

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Competing Demands

• Data-driven accountability
• PK Assessment
• TPRI/Tejas Lee
• Kathy Richardson
• Stanford/Aprenda
• State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness
• Naglieri Non-verbal Abilities Test (NNAT)
• Grades
• EVAAS (value-added)
• ASPIRE (Accelerating Student Performance by
  Increasing Results and Expectations)

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Cosmic Connections

• Cosmic Education perceptions and choices
• Parent and community perceptions
• Academic language
• Skepticism and disdain for Cosmic
• Choose who you are maintain fidelity

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Comological Connections

• Brain-based whole-child
• Interdisciplinary
• Connections
• Creativity igniting a childs sense of
  discovery and imagination
• 21st Century Learning skills
• Cultural connections values all people

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Cosmology defined

1. Branch of astronomy studying the overall
   structure of the physical universe
2. The branch of philosophy that studies the origin,
   structure, and evolution of the universe,
   especially such characteristics as space, time,
   causality and freedom.

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Great Lessons

• God with No Hands Laws of Nature
• Coming of Life Progression and adaptation of
  life on Earth
• Coming of the Human Being Power to reason and
  think and the power of the will to choose the
  good of others and serve
• Story of Communication in signs Power of
  Language of communication
• Story of Numbers Language of Invention
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  ----Miller, 2006

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Cosmological leaders.

• Embrace changing environment and demands through
  recognizing models in living systems
• Interconnectedness - Everyone, everywhere
• Autopoeisis of leadership self-making
  qualities in living systems.
• Balance
• Evolution and adaptation
• Sustain life on Earth

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Cosmological leaders.

• Not bound by the limits of time and space.
  Visionaries who realize the eternal potential of
  the contributions and interactions in which they
  are engaged

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Cosmological leaders.

• Personify the characteristics of leadership that
  are responsive to the needs of the global society
  and encourage all individuals in local
  environments to maximize personal potential as
  contributors to the greater cosmic forces of the
  universe.

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• Lead India - Tree
• Collective power of Leadership go to this link
• http//www.dekhona.com/tv-ads-videos/fjhajsnnpo/TO
  I-Lead-India-Time-Of-India-video

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Shift
Follow the child Follow nature Listen to the
universe through you advocate for equity and
justice
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Love to hear from you!

• Lindsey Pollock
• Garden Oaks Elementary Houston ISD
• 901 Sue Barnett
• Houston, TX 77018
• [phone] office
• [phone] cellular
• lpollock_at_houstonisd.org
• savedanywaybygrace_at_yahoo.com