Assistant/Associate Principals and Deans Statewide Mentoring Meeting

1. Assistant/AssociatePrincipals and Deans Statewide Mentoring Meeting Tuesday, January 21, 2014

2. Outcomes: • Grow your professional network; • Identify strategies for improving individual leadership-life fit; • Explore different aspects of observation and/or evaluation from the walk-through to coaching teachers to preparing the summative evaluation; • Collaborate around effective approaches to develop and support learning teams; • Brainstorm and share best resources; and • Increase their awareness of the most current legal issues.

3. Leadership-life Fit Dana Schon, SAI

4. Grounding our work today… What strategies have helped you have a better leadership life-fit since our last meeting in September?

5. Why the wheel? • Yields a visual representation of your current fit compared to your ideal fit. • Helps to identify the gaps keeping you from a better fit. • Increases awareness of how time and energy are spent.

6. Wheel of Life Example

7. Wheel of life Example Mother Wife Recreation Career Friend Volunteer Exercise Spiritual

8. Taking a Helicopter View • Brainstormthe 6 to 8 dimensions of your life that are important for you. • The roles you play in life: husband/wife, father/mother, manager, colleague, team member, sports player, community leader, or friend. • Areas of life that are important to you: artistic expression, positive attitude, career, education, family, friends, financial freedom, physical challenge, pleasure, or public service. • Your own combination of these (or different) things, reflecting the things that are your priorities in life.

9. Taking a Helicopter View Mother Wife Career

10. Taking a Helicopter View Mother Wife • Assess each area: • Consider each dimension in turn. • On a scale of 0 (low) – to 10 (high), write down the amount of attention you're devoting to that area of your life. You might also think of the ranking scale in terms of how satisfied you are with this area. • Mark each score on the appropriate spoke of your Life Wheel. Career

11. Compare • Connect the dots! • Consider your ideal fit. • Not a ‘5’ for each area—that echoes of that antiquated notion of balance. • Recognize some areas need more focus at any given time than others. • Leadership-life fit is unique to each individual—one person’s fitness may be another’s stress! • Energy and time are not in unlimited supply! • Plot your ideal scores around your wheel. Mother Wife Recreation Career Friend Volunteer Exercise Spiritual

12. Compare

13. Commit to Action • Note the gaps between your current fit and your ideal fit as indicated by your wheel. • Gaps can be both in areas that are not getting as much attention as you'd like and in areas where you're putting in more effort than you'd ideally like. These areas could be sapping energy and enthusiasm that may better be directed elsewhere. • Start with the neglected areas: • What things do you need to start doing to attain a better fit? • In the areas that currently take your energy and time, what can you stop doing or reprioritize or delegate to someone else? • Note your commitments on the back of your wheel.

14. Next steps… • Consider having a colleague or close friend complete the wheel for you so you can compare your perception with theirs.

15. Round Table Break-outs

16. Welcome, Activators of our learning! • Ryan Davis, Vinton-Shellsburg HS • Jodie Graham, Ankeny Centennial HS • Brady Fleming, Waukee HS

17. Lunch!

18. Learning Community: Developing the Capacity of your Learning Teams

19. Success Analysis Protocol • Groups of 6. • First person shares his/her practice/strategy-- how it is used, why it’s successful, and/or what might need tweaked. Group processes by asking questions and offering insights (8 minutes). • Repeat steps two until all six colleagues have shared.

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28. Next Presenter

29. Resource Smackdown Dana Schon, SAI

30. Smackdown! • What resource has served you well? • Share it with our team!

31. Break!Grow your professional network—choose a new table!

32. Reminders from the Legal Vortex Matt Carver, SAI

33. Final Thoughts & Evaluation Upcoming learning opportunities: http://www.sai-iowa.org/events.cfm Evaluation: http://bit.ly/JanAPFeedback