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Chapter 8: The Principal as Decision Maker. Dr. Rob Anderson Spring 2011. Agenda. Leadership Book Presentations Laura, Kirsten, Marissa, Ayesha Tallahassee update Chapter 8: Principal as Decision Maker Using school data to make decisions. Major Themes: Chapter 8.
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Chapter 8: The Principal as Decision Maker Dr. Rob Anderson Spring 2011
Agenda • Leadership Book Presentations • Laura, Kirsten, Marissa, Ayesha • Tallahassee update • Chapter 8: Principal as Decision Maker • Using school data to make decisions
Major Themes: Chapter 8 • The decision making process • Rational decision making • Shared decision making • Leadership style continuum and decision making
Florida Principal Leadership Standards Standard 6: Decision Making. Effective school leaders employ and monitor a decision-making process that is based on vision, mission and improvement priorities using facts and data. The leader: • Gives priority attention to decisions that impact the quality of student learning and teacher proficiency; • Uses critical thinking and problem solving techniques to define problems and identify solutions; • Evaluates decisions for effectiveness, equity, intended and actual outcome; implements follow-up actions; and revises as needed; • Empowers others and distributes leadership when appropriate; and • Uses effective technology integration to enhance decision making and efficiency throughout the school.
Defining the Problem • Key piece to effective decision making • Get specific when defining any problem and make sure it is actually a problem
Common Methodologies used to Solve Problems • Problem Solving Decision Making Analysis • Utilized forced ranking to prioritize solutions amongst chosen variables for consideration • SWOT Analysis • Decision Tree • Developing a flow chart of decisions
Leadership-Style Continuum Use of Authority by the Manager Area of Freedom for subordinates p. 216
Using Data to Make Decisions • Extremely valuable to new school leaders • Experienced leaders can lean on experience to make decisions, new leaders cannot • You have to be able to properly analyze data first
Case Study: Lake Nona HS Step One: Look at the data and analyze each area to determine next steps.
What are your options? • Data is on target. Strategy is working and personnel is performing • Data is not on target • Strategy is not working • Personnel is not performing
Case Study: Lake Nona HS Step Two: In areas where data is not on target, dig a little deeper within each area to develop a clearer picture a) Is there anything that could have skewed the data? b) Is the data you are investigating an anomaly? Consistent with prior years?
Digging Deeper • School to school comparison • Compare overall results with those of other schools within the district to understand how much above/below the mean each data point falls • Look at schools with similar demographics to compare apples to apples?
Developing a Strategy • Once you have identified which data point you are trying to move, you have to begin to implement a decision making strategy. Do you: • Make changes by yourself? • Enlist your leadership team to come up with ideas? • Develop a committee of teachers/professionals to weigh in? • Students, parents….?
Evaluating Personnel • How do you determine whether or not your issue is the strategy or the people implementing the strategy? • How do you ensure that your strategy has been implemented with fidelity? • Leading indicators vs. lagging indicators
Case Study: Lake Nona HS • In our case, after bringing together a team of administrators, we realized that it was both a strategy and personnel issue. • Our strategy did not provide enough support, so we developed additional interventions including • Pull out programs targeting our lowest students • Integrating complex text with reading strategies in Physical Science, Biology, Geography and World History
Case Study: Lake Nona HS • After compiling data from our reading program, we moved our lowest performing teacher into another subject and hired a high performing reading teacher. • This resulted in a Win-Win. The teacher (who was admittedly struggling, is much more successful.
Case Study: Lake Nona High School • Results • Use of leading indicators to measure progress real time
For Next Week • Osceola County Spring Break!!!