Find and greet members at your Learning Club. Organize your belongings. Review the agenda.

1. Entry Procedures • Find and greet members at your Learning Club. • Organize your belongings. • Review the agenda. • Converse with your elbow partner about what it means to be a teacher leader. Be prepared to share.

2. Administrator as Instructional Leader SEE Conference 2010 Adam D. Drummond

3. My Family Tiff

4. Professional Experience Bachelor’s Degree in Elementary Education Master’s Degree in Higher Education K-12 administrator’s license Ed.S. candidate • Work Experience • 1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th, middle school Language Arts, • Professional Development Coordinator K-5, 6-8 • Adjunct instructor for Taylor University Fort Wayne • Elementary Assistant Principal • Elementary Principal

5. Philosophy of Teaching “Be the change you wish to see in the world.” • Mahatma Gandhi • My mission is to empower citizens to take charge of their life by immersing themselves in daily learning opportunities where they can grow responsibly by being an advocate for the world in which they live, thus creating a stronger community and bond between one another.

6. Goal Sessions: • Identify leadership strategies utilized by building administrators • Brainstorm ways to utilize nine body-brain elements as an administrator • Familiarize oneself with the Personal Handbook as an instructional tool • Create a plan of implementation for becoming a ‘brain-compatible’ leader

7. “It is easy enough to vocalize for change, but one must have something to change to that is reasonably well understood and ready and waiting for use” (Hart, 2002, p. 8).Leslie Hart

8. Vision Skills Incentives Resources Action Plan Assessment Meaningful Change Skills Incentives Resources Action Plan Assessment Confusion Vision Incentives Resources Action Plan Assessment Anxiety Vision Skills Resources Action Plan Assessment Gradual Change Vision Skills Incentives Action Plan Assessment Frustration Vision Skills Incentives Resources Assessment False Starts Vision Skills Incentives Resources Action Plan Unknown Results Managing Complex Change; Adapted from Delores Ambrose, 1987

9. Approaches to SuccessfulTeacher Leadership • Demonstrative Approach • Data Approach • Consultative Approach • Collaborative Approach

10. Process of Staff Development • Presentation/Explanation of theory behind the practice • Demonstration • Opportunities for Initial Guided Practice • Prompt feedback about their efforts • Sustained coaching

11. In-School Coaching Structures • Shadow Opportunities • Peer Coaching • Specific Objectives (monthly) • Guest Teacher opportunities • Build into PL 221 plans • Paid Coaching • HET Associates • In-House support

12. District-Wide Coaching Structures • Model Teaching Week • Intern • TS • TT • Cohort Support System • Yearlong Professional Development Program

13. Guiding Principles of Model • Teachers cannot change a behavior or practice until they SEE what the new behavior or practice LOOKS like in a real world setting multiple times. • For professional development to truly be effective and sustained, it must be accompanied with on-going environment COACHING in a non-threatening.

14. HET 9 Body-Brain Elements Meaningful Content Movement Adequate Time Choices Enriched Environment Collaboration Immediate Feedback Mastery/Application Absence of Threat/ Nurturing Reflecting Thinking

15. Create a Body-Brain Staff Meeting • Provide an agenda prior to meeting (Absence of Threat) • Have entry procedures—give them an action (Meaningful Content) • Begin with a teacher-led activity (collaboration, choice) • Announcements via paper/email (immediate feedback) • Provide Reflection throughout (Absence of Threat) • Leave with action (Choice, Immediate Feedback)

16. Immersion Area Yearlong Theme Lighting Plants WALLS AND DISPLAYS Clutter Free 8 Smarts Student Level FEELING “Tone” Music Lifelong Guidelines 2 - 3 Color Flow Social Action LIFESKILLS “Homey” Touches Key Points Agenda Environment With Purpose and Pattern Theme Connections Collaborative Groups Water Technology Resources Print & Real Town Hall and Meeting Area SPACES MATERIALS Flow Procedures Spaces Supply Baskets “Prime Real Estate” For Direct Instruction Quiet Spaces “Australia” “Skill Supports” At Desks

17. Take it Back! • Reflect on information from the presentation. • 3 questions you have • 2 action steps to begin sustainability • 1 resource you need • Share your ideas with your Learning Club.

18. Resources Eaker, J. (2003). http://www.techlearning.com/article/13820 Dufour, R., & Eaker, R. (1998) Professional Learning Communities at Work. NES. Bloomington, IN. Schmoker, M. (2006). Results Now: How We Can Achieve Unprecedented Improvements in Teaching and Learning. ASCD. Alexandria, VA. Lipton, L., & Wellman, B. (2009) How to Talk So Teachers Listen. Educational Leadership, 65 (01). Alexandria, VA.

19. Vision Skills Incentives Resources Action Plan Assessment Meaningful Change Skills Incentives Resources Action Plan Assessment Confusion Vision Incentives Resources Action Plan Assessment Anxiety Vision Skills Resources Action Plan Assessment Gradual Change Vision Skills Incentives Action Plan Assessment Frustration Vision Skills Incentives Resources Assessment False Starts Vision Skills Incentives Resources Action Plan Unknown Results Managing Complex Change; Adapted from Delores Ambrose, 1987

20. Contact Information Adam DrummondPrincipal, Lincoln Elementary School Huntington County Community School Corporation 2037 E. Taylor Street Huntington, IN 46750 260-356-2914 adrummond@hccsc.k12.in.us