Sigonella MHS CSILT Goals?

1. Sigonella MHSCSILTGoals? What do we want to accomplish? What do we not want to happen?

2. CSILT #1 Goal - Foster a PLC Culture “ PLC’s are simultaneously • A set of conditions • An exploration • A learning process • A connected state • A set of communication norms • A transformation of minds, and even • A philosophy.” From Annette Simmons’ book “A Safe Place for Dangerous Truths”

3. PLC CultureTrust and Open Dialog “ Sometimes the only safe place to really talk is in the bathroom….after checking for feet, of course. It is only safe to really talk AFTER the meeting, after everyone has said exactly what they were supposed to say, agreed to the action plan, and allocated tasks with due dates, comes the real truth. It never occurs to us that we are wasting each other’s time by not telling the truth in the meeting rather than after it. But, in a PLC culture, we can’t afford to allow half-truths to prevent our access to the tough issues and to the knowledge of others. ” From Annette Simmons’ book “A Safe Place for Dangerous Truths”

4. PLC CultureLifelong Learning “ All of this garbage about a learning community will remain just that – garbage – if we don’t grasp the fact that learning is a social process and what we really need to learn comes from the people we work with. They hold our missing pieces and we hold the key for their understanding. Unless we get better at swapping what we know for what they know, we won’t be a learning community. ” From Annette Simmons’ book “A Safe Place for Dangerous Truths”

5. PLC CultureCollective Introspection “ For some of us, time in the shower is the only time we stop doing long enough to think. The shower is the only place where we have enough time to reflect. It is not coincidental that this is also the place where we have some of our best ideas. Although I don’t recommend your group shower together, the concept is the same. Time to think and reflect together is imperative.” From Annette Simmons’ book “A Safe Place for Dangerous Truths”

6. PLC CultureConflict as Opportunity “ Finding out what you are doing wrong, what you don’t see, what you haven’t figured out yet is the first step toward innovation and improvement. Conflict is a source of creativity. Without conflict there is no need to innovate or to develop. ” From Annette Simmons’ book “A Safe Place for Dangerous Truths”

7. PLC CultureListening with Curiosity “ Listening with a genuine desire to understand is different; it is more like curiosity. Curiosity happens when the desire to learn outstrips the need for certainty. Curiosity provokes risk. It killed the cat, remember? But, excitement about the anticipation of new knowledge becomes palpable in a group brave enough to risk being curious. Listening curiously is more than hearing another’s point of view – it is making room for that point of view. ” From Annette Simmons’ book “A Safe Place for Dangerous Truths”

8. PLC Culture Avoiding the Hemlock Response “ We all know the reward Socrates got for helping people learn – he was forced to drink the poison hemlock. If you want to avoid modern-day hemlock, remember learning takes time. If you push too quickly or too forcefully, you might stimulate a seek-and-destroy response. The exhilaration of a real PLC is such a high that, over time, the group will embrace it themselves. If you get yourself killed before they figure this out, you haven’t done anyone any good. ” From Annette Simmons’ book “A Safe Place for Dangerous Truths”

9. Since people aren’t cattle, what do we do? “ People are not cattle. While they may go along a group process cattle chute to some prefab corral, the minute the so-called collaboration is over, they walk to the gate, let themselves out, and go right back to the patch of pasture they prefer. They just pretend to collaborate long enough to get out the door. ” From Annette Simmons’ book “A Safe Place for Dangerous Truths”