Instructional Management D4 Principals – Kim Marshall & Jenn David-Lang – 12/18/18

1. Instructional ManagementD4 Principals – Kim Marshall & Jenn David-Lang – 12/18/18

2. Share with your elbow partner Right now, whatare your biggest time management challenges? What’s pulling you away from instruction?

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4. Our preferences vs. what we need to do • Arms folded: our default approach • To be effective, we may have to go against our preferences. • We’ll discuss these one by one. • Rate ourselves on each rubric area… • And share effective practices and areas for improvement.

5. How would you rate yourself on A ? • Novice – Each day is driven by events, not long-range goals. • Developing – Periodically reminds self of strategic plan and student achievement goal. • Effective – Keeps student achievement and strategic plan in mind every day. • Highly effective – Has a laser-like focus on student achievement and strategic plan for the year. 5 Answer Now!

6. How would you rate yourself on B ? • Novice – Has a list in his/her head of what to do that day, but sometimes loses track. • Developing – Comes to work with a written to-do list. • Effective – Has weekly and daily to-do lists. • Highly effective – Has an effective personal planning system for the year, month, week, and day. 5 Answer Now!

7. How would you rate yourself on C ? • Novice – Occasionally berates self for not accomplishing long-range goals. • Developing – Tries to keep track of how he/she is doing on goals. • Effective – Periodically reviews how he/she is doing on weekly goals and tries to do better. • Highly effective – Regularly evaluates progress toward goals and works for continuous improvement. 5 Answer Now!

8. How would you rate your school on D ? • Novice – Has to constantly remind staff about curriculum expectations. • Developing – Often has to remind staff about curriculum expectations. • Effective – Most staff know what to teach. • Highly effective – Staff know exactly what is expected in curriculum. 5 Answer Now!

9. How would you rate your school on D ? • Novice – Has to constantly remind staff about key discipline policies. • Developing – Often has to remind staff about discipline expectations. • Effective – Most staff know what is expected. • Highly effective – Staff know exactly what is expected in classroom discipline. 5 Answer Now!

10. How would you rate your school on E ? • Novice – Grade-level and other team meetings are called on an ad hoc basis. • Developing – Meetings aren’t in people’s calendars and are scheduled each month. • Effective – Most team meetings are scheduled and happen regularly. • Highly effective – All key teams are scheduled and regularly do high-quality work. 5 Answer Now!

11. How would you rate yourself on F ? • Novice – Too busy, rarely visits classrooms. • Developing – Tries to get into classrooms, but many days doesn’t succeed. • Effective – Gets into some classrooms each day and gives personal feedback to each teacher visited. • Highly effective – Visits 2-3 classroom a day and gives face-to-face feedback to each teacher within 24 hours. 5 Answer Now!

12. How much mediocre teachingin your school? • A lot • Quite a bit • Here and there • Very little • None • Not sure 5 Answer Now

13. How would you rate yourself on G ? • Novice – Trusts memory to retain important things, but sometimes forgets and drops the ball. • Developing – Tries to write things down but is swamped and sometimes doesn’t follow up. • Effective – Almost always writes down important things and follows up on the most critical. • Highly effective – Has a foolproof system for writing things down, prioritizing, and following up. 5 Answer Now!

14. How would you rate yourself on H ? • Novice – Ends up doing almost everything him- or herself. • Developing – Has trouble letting go and delegating some key tasks. • Effective – Gives key staff plenty of responsibility for major items. • Highly effective – Delegates maximum responsibility to highly competent staffers. 5 Answer Now!

15. How would you rate yourself on I ? • Novice – Large amounts of each day are consumed by crises and time-wasters. • Developing – Tries to prevent them, but crises and time-wasters eat up large chunks of time. • Effective – Quite good at preventing or deflecting crises and time-wasting activities. • Highly effective – Uses effective strategies for preventing or deflecting crises and time-wasters. 5 Answer Now!

16. How would you rate yourself on J ? • Novice – Neglects family, rarely exercises, doesn’t sleep enough, and is in poor health. • Developing – Family, health, exercise, sleep, and vacations are suffering because of job. • Proficient – Does quite well at balancing job with family, health, exercise, sleep, and vacations. • Expert – Takes care of self, including family, health, exercise, sleep, vacations. 5 Answer Now!