Building Your Leadership Capacity

1. Building Your Leadership Capacity Monday, January 28th 4:00 – 6:00 pm Assembly Room Schou Education Centre

2. Learning Intentions • How do leaders create/support the conditions for change? • Create an Inquiry Question or identify something for further exploration

3. Quick Write Choose a quotation or two from the list that connects to the question, “How do leaders create/support the conditions for change?” Take five minutes to write about what this means to you. Consider: • Your ideas & experiences • Your school setting • Your communities beyond schools

4. Round Table Share: Guidelines • Each person in your group has two minutes to share • Everyone must have a chance to speak • Listeners’ job is to listen actively; not to interrupt, ask questions, or give advice • Unsolicited advice feels like criticism

5. Provocation Stations: Random Groups of Four: Each group must have a “Heart”, “Spade”, “Clover”, and “Diamond” Stations: Youtube Video: “The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us”, Daniel Pink *** Video: Margaret Wheatley ?? Article: “Beyond Standardization: Powerful New Principles for School Improvement”, by Dennis Shirley & Andy Hargreaves *** ?Article: “Leadership Substitutes” Segiovanni

6. Provocation Stations • As a group, decide who is going to which station • At your station, consider your article/video in the context of “How do leaders create/support the conditions for change?”

7. Provocation Stations At your stations … Watch/read Post View/Read: “Say something” about what you viewed/read that connects to the question. Discuss (1o minutes)

8. Provocation Stations • Return to your original group of four • Using the chart paper, share, discuss, and synthesize what you read/saw • 20 minutes

9. Leadership Corners

10. Homework • For next session, Monday, February 25th, please bring an artefact (an article, a video clip, an anecdote) that connects in someway to your question/topic

11. Exit Slip