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Tracy Watanabe

Qualities of Effective Principals | Connected Principals - 0 views

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  • 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
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3 Things That Show Strength, Not Weakness | Connected Principals - 0 views

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shared by Tracy Watanabe on 04 May 13 - No Cached
  •  Being “smart” now doesn’t necessarily mean “knowing the answer” as much as it means knowing where to get the answer.  This is not just a “Google” thing, but more of a trait that leaders need to have.  The best leaders tap into the people around them and depend upon their collective intelligence as opposed to the intelligence of one.
  • 1.  Great leaders can say “I don’t know”. 
  • 2.  Great leaders ask for help.  
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  •  My suggestion is that you should both be a mentor and have a mentor, but always understand that in either situation you can ask for help.  Risk taking is important, but I also believe in learning from others that have already done the work.
  • 3.  Great leaders say “yes” when they are unsure.
  • “If you are asking me if it’s a good idea, I don’t have very much information, all I know is that one of my star faculty members is in my office and he is really excited, so tell me more.”  This is much different than simply saying “no” and is much more empowering.
  • It is strange to me that I sometimes hear that people believe that these three elements show that the leader lacks confidence, when I believe it shows something much different.  If a leader can say “I don’t know”, they are showing that they are comfortable with that, opposed to pretending they know something where they have clue, which has “insecurity” written all over it.  Not only do these factors show “strength” but they promote trust, and that is the foundation of any strong school culture.
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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.
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TEDxYouth: A Great opportunity for Student Digital Footprint Development | Connected Pr... - 0 views

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shared by Tracy Watanabe on 15 Jun 11 - Cached
  • My own regional association  (Independent school Association of the Southwest) has done very fine work, mostly by its excellent technology directors, in launching last November a TEDxYouth day for our member-schools, a day in which dozens of our students prepared and presented their own TED style talks.
  • Tracy Watanabe on 15 Jun 11
     
    Great idea!
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The bar has been raised. | Connected Principals - 0 views

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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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Lessons from a principalship « The Principal of Change - 0 views

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shared by Tracy Watanabe on 04 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • It is always about the kids
  • Is the change you are trying to implement worth the results you will see? Change is a big buzzword in education right now; many people know that some things have to change, but are not sure what.  When you are bringing something new into school, it is important to be visionary about what it will actually produce.  
  • Building a great school means building a great family.
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  • If you do not screw up, you are not trying hard enough
  • Learning must be open and transparent.
  • Clearly state your vision and beliefs, then repeat.
  • A bunch of great teachers does not always make a great school; bring everything together. There are so many great teachers out there, and many of them are in the same school, but that does not make the school great; it only means that there are pockets of excellence.  As with any team, if you are not able to bring the talent together towards a common goal, there is less chance of organizational success (Miami Heat anyone?).  Autonomy is essential to successful teacher practice, but so is purpose.  It is so important that educational leaders bring their staff together to create an environment where school teachers flourish.
  • Passion is everything.
  • It is all(ways) about relationships.
  • Tracy Watanabe on 04 Jul 11
     
    Amazing post by George Couros
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