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Tracy Watanabe

Parent Communication: TO vs WITH | Connected Principals - 0 views

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shared by Tracy Watanabe on 21 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Parent Communication: TO vs WITH
  • COMMUNICATING TO – GETTING THE INFORMATION OUT THERE newsletters reports announcements, newspaper articles and ads emails, SMS Website Twitter feed Blogs Facebook Page COMMUNICATING WITH – CREATING DIALOGUE face to face meetings -LISTEN parent phone calls emails that encourage replies website/blogs with comments enabled Twitter that encourages @ replies and dialogue Facebook pages and discussion boards that are open (and moderated) The key with parent communication is clarity of PURPOSE.  We cannot say that we communicate WITH parents effectively if we are not visible in the public and our technology does not encourage feedback and dialogue.  Technology is not a replacement for face-to-face dialogue but can be used in a way to increase the likelihood of these meetings through developing confidence and better school-family relationships.
Tracy Watanabe

Qualities of Effective Principals | Connected Principals - 0 views

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shared by Tracy Watanabe on 29 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • What do good principals do?
  • Great communicator
  • Difference maker:
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  • Risky, but not too risky:  Principals have to be willing to try new things and have a mindset to keep trying until improvement is the end resu
  • Manage by walking around: Principals that consistently walk around know the students, can better identify areas where teachers can improve, and set the tone for practices to be emulated throughout the building.
  • Address problems:  Strong principals will do the hard, dissatisfying work associated with addressing and removing ineffective staff.  This requires addressing problems head on with a positive attitude. When hiring new staff, principals need to go to great efforts to hire educators that align best with the vision of the school
  • Cares about students and staff: 
  • Instructional leadership: building a vision, establishing a shared leadership model, leading a learning community, using data, and monitoring curriculum & instruction.  The most effective teachers seamlessly use multiple instructional strategies during a lesson and good principals can identify them
  • School climate: creating a positive culture, establishing high expectations, adhering to a practice of respect
  • Human resource administration:  hiring quality teachers & other staff, inducting & supporting current staff, providing meaningful opportunities for growth, retaining quality staff, and effectively evaluating teacher performanc
  • Organization management: safety, daily operations, facilities maintenance, and securing & using resources to increase student achievement
  • Communication and community relations: effective communicator with all stakeholder groups
  • Professionalism: ethical standards, serves as a role model, models life-long learning
Tracy Watanabe

Four Conditions Essential for Instructional Coaching to Work | Edutopia - 0 views

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shared by Tracy Watanabe on 23 May 11 - No Cached
  • Condition #1: School culture
  • the school culture needs to be oriented towards growth and improvement. Teachers, as well as administrators, need to see themselves as learners, eager and capable of improving their practice when given support.
  • You want to hear a dominant message that the staff feels that the problems are within their sphere of influence, that they have the power to improve the problems
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  • Condition #2: Structures for collaboration
  • Teachers need to be interested in and willing to work together; their doors need to be wide open,
  • Condition #3: The principal’s view of coaching.
  • a coach needs a close partnership with the principal. He must see you as someone to collaborate with; he must also have a fairly clear vision of what a coach does.
  • You want to get an overall sense of what the principal knows and understands about coaching and how he intends to utilize you. It’s critical to remember that coaching can’t be mandated -- so listen for any indicators that this might be the plan. You also want to get a sense of how the principal plans on bringing you into the role -- are teachers aware that a coach might come on board? How do they feel about that? Are they participating in the selection process? Does the principal anticipate pushback to coaching? How will he negotiate that? If you’re considering taking a coaching job at a site, be sure to have a number of in-depth conversations with the principal. You need to feel that you can work closely and well with that leader.
  • Perhaps the most critical condition for coaching to work is that an organization sees itself as a place where everyone is a learner.
  • Condition #4: Professional development for coaches.
  • Are there other coaches in the school or in the district? Are there networks or professional learning communities of coaches that you can hook into
Tracy Watanabe

Become an "Eeel:" The 17 E's of Electronic Education Leadership Excellence: L... - 0 views

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shared by Tracy Watanabe on 06 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • Experimentation: Try it, play with it, do something with it, and if it helps, do more with it
  • Enthusiasm! Be an irresistible force of nature:  See a student, teacher, administrator, or parent doing something that you haven’t seen before with a digital device?
  • Respond with enthusiasm and the school community sees your interest and is grateful for your open-ness.  Respond with hesitation or skepticism, and your body language will speak volumes, and progress at your school will slow considerably.
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  • Engaged!  Addicted to MBWA/Managing by Wandering Around. In touch. Always.  The electronically excellent educational leader, or eeel, is engaged with electronic learning in person and virtually
  • Emerging!  One of the wonderful things about the practice and development of uniting technology and education is that it is, as Dan Pink says in Drive, asymptotic
  • Entangled and Enriched.   Entangled here is a synonym for networked, and enriched is what you will be after building an online learning network of colleagues who share your interests and passions.  Twitter is the best place to start
  • Eustress!  Jane McGonigal, in Reality is Broken, reminds us of the value of “hard fun: [it] happens when we experience positive stress, or eustress (from Greek eu, for well being, and stress).”  
  • Empowerment!  Always ask “what do you think?” Then listen!  Then let go and liberate!  Eeels (excellent electronic education leaders) ask digitally savvy teachers and students how they think they might use technology in learning, listen, let go and liberat
  • Edginess!  Perpetually dancing at the frontier, and a little or or a lot beyond.
  • Execution: Do it! Now! Get it done!  Barriers are baloney. Excuses are for wimps.   Execute technology innovation today.  Patrick Larkin is doing at Burlington High School; he seized every opportunity he could within his district’s limited means and he is providing an iPad to every student, and they are embarking now, with no more excuses
  • Error-prone!  Ready! Fire! Aim! Try a lot of stuff and make a lot of boo-boos and then try some stuff and make some more booboos– all of it at the speed of light.  Make mistakes quickly; try and try again; model for your teachers and students learning to be an eeel by the most effective learning ever invented: trial and error.
  • Encouragement! Sometimes this is all it takes to be an eeel.  Never underestimate the value of a specific word of praise or the acknowledgement that it is indeed hard, the work teachers and students are doing to integrate technology, but that you know they can do it
  • Encompassing!
  • Eliminate!
  • Eagerness
  • Expectations!  
  • Eudomania!
  • Excellence
  • Become an “Eeel:” The 17 E’s of Electronic Education Leadership Excellence: Leadership Day 2011 (Hat tip to Tom Peters)
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The bar has been raised. | Connected Principals - 0 views

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#cpchat educationalleadership iste nets administrator

shared by Tracy Watanabe on 13 Aug 11 - No Cached
  •  National Educational Technology Standards for Administrators (NETS-A) as a starting point, what are the absolutely critical skills or abilities that administrators need to be effective technology leaders?
  • The NETS-A are organized around 5 major themes: Visionary Leadership, Digital Age Learning Culture, Excellence in Professional Practice, Systemic Improvement, and Digital Citizenship
  • But I think where it begins is with connections. It begins by developing a supportive network of peers that can enhance your comfort and familiarity with the components of these domains. I think where it begins is with no excuses. Try something new. Read about the latest. Communicate in a different way than you did before. You’ll find that you like it. Empower your teachers and students to help you develop in this area professionally, and share what you learn with others.
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