“Artful Leadership: Walking The Talk”

1. Fit the parts together, one into the other, and build your figure like a carpenter builds a house. Everything must be constructed, composed of parts that make a whole... (Henri Matisse) “Artful Leadership: Walking The Talk” Richard Benjamin Kennesaw State University April 15 – 17, 2005

2. Walking The Talk “If I could tell you, I wouldn’t need to dance” • Isadora Duncan

3. LBC Leadership Institute • What are the Artful Leadership tools which would might support Artful Learning and the Bernstein School Design initiatives Sustainability? Significant Questions: • Who Am I? What gives the most meaning to me? • “Artful Leadership – Your Voice as a Leadership Tool” • “What Am I doing?” What am I creating? • Artful Leadership – Walking The Talk” Churchill

4. Teaching Perspectives 1 2 3 4 5 http://www.teachingperspectives.com/ Mission Builder 1 2 3 4 5 Covey Website Pre-Leadership Institute Assignments

5. Democracy’s Poet Edwin Markham (1852–1940) We all are blind until we see That in the human plan Nothing is worth the making if It does not make the man. Why build these cities glorious If man unbuilded goes? In vain we build the world, unless The builder also grows.

6. Artful Leadership Tools • Tools for Experience • Raphael • Leger • Louis Armstrong • Tools for Inquiry • Who Am I? • Who Am I? activity • Leadership Rubrics • What Am I doing? • Building a Cathedral • Tools for Creating • Senge - Systems Thinking • Mental Models • http://www.teacherleaders.org/Conversations/mentalmodels.html • Maxwell - Teamwork • Tools for Reflecting • “Your Voice as a Leadership Tool” • Susan Hanson & Richard Benjamin

7. Reframing Organizations Terry Deal Jungle Factory Family Cathedral 5th Discipline – Tools of a Learning Organization Peter Senge 1 – Personal Mastery 2 – Team Learning 3 – Shared Vision/Values 4 – Mental Models 5 – Systems Thinking Terry Deal & Peter Senge The Tools of Perspective

8. Building Shared Vision Personal Mastery Voice? Team Learning Professional Learning Communities Mental Models Systems Thinking Causal Loops What causes high levels of student achievement? Systems Thinking - Learning http://www.mapnp.org/library/systems/systems.htm http://www.nesonline.com/Catalog/ItemDetail.asp?Product=21 http://www.nesonline.com/partners/school_improvement.htm

9. Try not to become a (person) of success but rather to become a (person) of value…Albert Einstein Stephen Covey Mission Builder • Covey • Mission Activity http://rainier.franklincovey.com/missionbuilder/index.html

10. Hawthorn First Identify Your Strengths - The 17 Indisputable Laws of TeamworkKey Laws - Lessons Let’s look at each of these six fundamental values – Value of Life, World Peace, Justice and Equality, Education, Family, and Social Responsibility -- • Leadership Development

11. School Design p. 18 • Artful Leadership Like the conductor of an orchestra, a Bernstein school leader artfully uses multiple skills to build the creativity of the school community. Thoughtful coaching by Bernstein facilitators encourages leaders, Leadership Teams, and all members of the school community to assume increasing responsibility for leadership as the program grows. A self-sustaining learning culture where leadership is shared through the whole community is the final stage. • A culture of continuous learning for all Bernstein schools implement best teaching practices validated by established researchers and their own school-based research. A culture of continuous school improvement, aligned with the components of Comprehensive School Reform, is embedded in all school processes.

12. Vision Current Reality Inquire – Indicate your current reality on the elements of Artful Leadership, using the rubric provided for each element. Elements of Artful Leadership: Transformational / Servant Level 5 Invitational Moral Constructivist Artful Leadership Rubrics

13. Tools of Inquiry • Effective Schools Research • LBC Notebook • Fishbone (see diagram) • National Board Certification • LBC Notebook • Graphic Organizers (see data)

14. Artful Leadership • Vision / Ideal • Plato • Current Reality • Aristotle • Experience / VAK • Empiricism / Parmenides • Reflection • Rationalism / Heraclitis & Pythagoras Raphael – The School of Athens http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rationalism-empiricism/ http://www.newbanner.com/AboutPic/athena/raphael/nbi_ath4.html http://un2sg4.unige.ch/athena/raphael/raf_ath4.html

15. SAT – Question of the Day The following sentence contains either a single error or no error at all. If the sentence contains an error, select the one underlined part that must be changed to make the sentence correct. If the sentence contains no error, select choice E. One of Francisco Goya's portraits of (9A) Carlos II show (B) the king in hunting attire, with (C) a rifle in his left hand, gloves in his right, and a hunting  dog asleep at (D) his feet. No error E http://www.collegeboard.com/apps/qotd/question

16. System Thinking Tools • Big picture thinker Peter Senge has applied his Laws of Systems Thinking to education in books like Schools That Learn. • In this article, consultant William O'Callaghan Jr. gives examples of Senge's laws in education settings. Here's one: "The easy way out usually leads back in – When we stick to what we know best and apply familiar or textbook solutions, we find comfort. Relying on familiar solutions even while problems persist indicates nonsystemic thinking, or the 'what we need here is a bigger hammer' syndrome. • For instance, when student performance is static or declining, the typical reaction is to tighten the screws by raising the threshold for meeting educational standards. However, in doing so, the unintended consequences are to mask incremental improvements in student achievement, frustrate the teachers and principals and further increase demands for more stringent standards." • Read about Senge's laws and "wicked problems" in the November 2004 School Administrator magazine. O'Callaghan is the author of Thinking Outside the Box: How Educational Leaders Can Safely Navigate the Rough Waters of Change.

17. Why is “because” such an important word? P 106 Philosophy for Kids Indicators Leading Intermediate Trailing Aristotle Bernstein Model works, because…… Theory of Action (Eva Baker UCLA) The underlying theory motivating the Artful Learning model is that the joy, discipline, and commitment required by the arts will provide a useful framework for the overall improvement of education and for individual growth Mental Models

18. Epistemology Empiricism Rationalism Ethics Leadership, Ethics & Character Who is right about the only way to learn, through the senses or through reason? Do you perceive things as they are or only as they seem to be? P 61 Appearance Reality Philosophy For Kids (Leaders?) http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rationalism-empiricism/

20. Leadership Development Inside Out………Outside In • Mobius • August Ferdinand Möbius, • http://scidiv.bcc.ctc.edu/Math/Mobius.html • The famous artist, M.C. Escher, used mathematical themes in some of his work, including a Möbius parade of ants. His flight of swans looks like it might be a Möbius Strip, but it's not. Can you see why not?

21. Inquiry – Significant Question “Is it ethical for teachers to refuse to teach in high-poverty schools?” OR “Under what conditions might expert teachers be encouraged to teach in high-poverty or low-performing schools?” Tools for considering ethical questions Utilitarianism – Bentham Categorical Imperative - Kant Golden Rule - All Veil of Ignorance – Rawls Tools for considering systems questions Artful Leadership Transformational / Servant – Greenleaf / Senge (5 Why’s) Constructivist - Lambert Professional Learning Community / Collaboration - DuFour& Eaker Teamwork - Maxwell Philosophy for Leaders http://www.teacherleaders.org/misc/HTSethics.html http://www.learningcooperative.org/Customers/0502%20Newsletter.htm

22. Constructivist Leadership • "In the race to prepare for high-stakes state assessments, students are losing out on instructional practices that foster meaningful learning." • Constructivism, as most subscribers will know, is a theory of learning "that describes the central role that learners' ever-transforming mental schemes play in their cognitive growth."

23. Inquiry Tool: Action Research Advance / Graphic OrganizerQuestion: What might we learn from this data?

24. Learning Pyramid

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26. http://www.worldofexperience.com/Startpage/start_startpage.asphttp://www.worldofexperience.com/Startpage/start_startpage.asp Experience

27. Senge “Task is to redesign, and re-build, the boat, or plane, while continuing the journey.” Design Construction School Design Book

28. Leadership Decisions • More than at any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly. Woody Allen