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From entrenched position to new realities: Experiencing the processes

From entrenched position to new realities: Experiencing the processes. Workshop presented by: A/Prof. Dorothy Andrews, Joan Conway, Mark Dawson, Dr Mary Keeffe and Dr Marian Lewis. Leadership Research (LRI) University of Southern Queensland. http://ideas@usq.edu.au.

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From entrenched position to new realities: Experiencing the processes

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  1. From entrenched position to new realities: Experiencing the processes Workshop presented by: A/Prof. Dorothy Andrews, Joan Conway, Mark Dawson, Dr Mary Keeffe and Dr Marian Lewis. Leadership Research (LRI) University of Southern Queensland http://ideas@usq.edu.au

  2. Dynamic processes of school Improvement –Enhanced Outcomes and culture building Aligning Parallel Leadership Shared Organisation – wide responsibility Centered on the work of Teachers Alignment of organisational elements Crowther, Hann & McMaster (2001)

  3. School Improvement … “… in a study of selected Australian schools that initiated and sustained significant improvement in student achievement it was conclusive that parallel leadership activates three processes that enable improvements to occur. The processes are schoolwide learning, culture building and a schoolwide approach to pedagogy.” (Crowther, Hann & McMaster, 2001)

  4. Parallel Leadership Principals and Teacher-Leaders • Shared purpose • Mutual trust • Individual expression

  5. Meta-strategic role of the principal - Visioning process - Identity-generation - Alignment of organisational elements - Distribution of power and leadership - External alliances and networking

  6. The roleof the principal in enabling teacher leadership • Communicates a clear strategic intent. • Incorporates the aspirations and views of others. • Posesdifficult-to-answer questions. • Makes space for individual innovation. • Knows when to step back. • Creates opportunities from perceiveddifficulties. • Builds upon achievements to create a culture of success. Crowther, Kaagan, Hann & Ferguson (2002)

  7. Leadership capacity – a school-wide phenomenon

  8. Successful school revitalisation: the IDEAS way The USQ IDEAS Team (September, 2004)

  9. InnovativeDesigns for EnhancingAchievement inSchools

  10. Principle 1: Teachers are the key Principle 2: Professional learning is key to professional revitalisation Principle 3: Success breeds success Principle 4: No Blame Principle 5: Alignment of school processes is a collective school responsibility

  11. I PROCESS D E initiating A discovering Awareness envisioning S actioning sustaining Awareness

  12. The ideas process -    initiating:How will we manage the process? Who will facilitate the process? Who will record our history of the journey? -discovering:What are we doing that is most successful? What is not working as well as we would like it to? -envisioning:What do we hope our school will look like in the future? What is our conceptualisation of schoolwide pedagogy? -actioning:How will we create a tripartite action plan? How will we work towards the alignment of key school elements and processes? -sustaining:What progress have we made towards schoolwide pedagogy? What school practices are succeeding and how can we expand them?

  13. ideas processes…. • Whole school thinking – “we are in this together –we are all on the same page” • Professional conversations – dialogue • Synergistic Thinking – creative process • Reflective Practice – professional inquiry • Making connections – internal networks and external networks

  14. The Workshop Moving through the following sequence: • The challenge: Creating new realities for your school: How do you build the capacity for change? • The creation: New ways of thinking and acting: How do you challenge old patterns of thinking and acting and create new realities? • The connection: Opportunities for networking: How do you build capacity for that enables the envisioning of new realities?

  15. The challenge: Creating new realities for your school: How do you build the capacity for change? Presenter: Marian Lewis

  16. The creation: New ways of thinking and acting: How do you challenge old patterns of thinking and acting and create new realities? Presenter: Mark Dawson

  17. The connection: Opportunities for networking: How do you build capacity for that enables the envisioning of new realities? Presenters: Joan Conway & Mary Keeffe

  18. Feedback Questions: Q1 What do you now know about the processes that enable you to facilitate movement from entrenched position to new realities? Q2 What are the new realities? What do they look like?

  19. Workshop: concluding comments The challenge: Enabling leadership & capacity building The creation: Cognitive leadership – thinking in different ways The connection: Images of a new professionalism

  20. Contacts: A/Prof Dorothy AndrewsDirector LRI andrewsd@usq.edu.au Joan Conway conwayj@usq.edu.au Mark Dawson dawsonm@ usq.edu.au Dr Marian Lewis Marian.Lewis@ usq.edu.au Dr Mary Keeffe keeffem@usq.edu.au

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