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Reflexive Leadership & Working With Community

Reflexive Leadership & Working With Community. …. Reflecting on reflection. Your Context. Where do you work? In improving outcomes for Indigenous students, how important is it to have community and school working together?

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Reflexive Leadership & Working With Community

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  1. Reflexive Leadership&Working With Community …. Reflecting on reflection

  2. Your Context • Where do you work? • In improving outcomes for Indigenous students, how important is it to have community and school working together? • In your context, is it easy to identify who the “community” is?

  3. Morne & MasonMarine Architects • It’s 1725 and you are marine architects. • You have been given the task of designing a new and improved variety of slave ship. Concept Janett Jackson: 2007

  4. Third Creek (Adelaide Plains - rear K Mart car park, Firle)

  5. Third Creek (Adelaide Plains - Shakespeare Avenue, Magill)

  6. Insanity & SolutionsAlbert Einstein • Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. • We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

  7. The Dilemma • “When I first became a school leader in a remote Indigenous community. I was aware that I didn’t know all of the answers - after several months, it became clear to me that I didn’t even know the questions!”

  8. Third Creek (Adelaide Plains - UniSA grounds, Magill)

  9. School Culture Continuum * Indigenous Education Leadership Institute (Stronger Smarter) Cultural Awareness Cultural Competence Cultural Proficiency Cultural Sensitivity High End Skills Low End Skills

  10. The Culture of The School Over-rides all Strategic Plans * Indigenous Education Leadership Institute (Stronger Smarter) • Performance • Competition • Task Orientation • Deficit • Rational • Sameness • Debate • Individual • Quantitative

  11. The Culture of The School Over-rides all Strategic Plans* Indigenous Education Leadership Institute (Stronger Smarter) • Performance • Competition • Task Orientation • Deficit • Rational • Sameness • Debate • Individual • Quantitative Learning Collaboration Process Strengths Emotional / Social Difference Dialogue Collective Qualitative

  12. Reflexivity is about thinking and re- thinking issues from your point of view, and the point of view of every other member of the group with which you are working, and then acting to achieve improved outcomes for everyone. NB: This also means thinking outside of the dominant cultural view of the group. Russ & Janett Jackson, 2009.

  13. The Individual KNOWLEDGE EMOTIONAL & PHYSICAL WELLBEING VALUES BELIEFS

  14. EMOTIONAL & PHYSICAL WELLBEING InteractionGroup VALUES BELIEFS KNOWLEDGE EMOTIONAL & PHYSICAL WELLBEING KNOWLEDGE VALUES BELIEFS EMOTIONAL & PHYSICAL WELLBEING EMOTIONAL & PHYSICAL WELLBEING KNOWLEDGE VALUES BELIEFS VALUES BELIEFS KNOWLEDGE EMOTIONAL & PHYSICAL WELLBEING EMOTIONAL & PHYSICAL WELLBEING BELIEFS VALUES BELIEFS VALUES Russ Jackson 2009 KNOWLEDGE KNOWLEDGE

  15. System KNOWLEDGE EMOTIONAL & PHYSICAL WELLBEING VALUES BELIEFS Russ Jackson 2009

  16. Which Community? • The individual? • The Interaction Group? • The System? • The School Community?

  17. School Community

  18. How? In collaboration with community: • How can you develop governance? • How can you influence staff selection? • How can you develop staff induction? • How can you develop school (and?) community partnership? • ?

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