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Tracy Watanabe

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    Check out this SlideShare presentation : iPad for School Administrators 
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Today's Word: COLLABORATION « John Maxwell Team | A Minute With Maxwell | Fre... - 0 views

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    We come together to collaborate because we value each other. It means recognizing that we need to tap into other strengths from others to come up with great ideas. A great idea is a bunch of good ideas on the table that become a great idea, from collaborating with others. -- Tracy's paraphrase of Maxwell
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Qualities of Effective Principals | Connected Principals - 0 views

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#cpchat educationalleadership

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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
  • Organization management: safety, daily operations, facilities maintenance, and securing & using resources to increase student achievement
  • 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
  • Cares about students and staff: 
  • Communication and community relations: effective communicator with all stakeholder groups
  • Professionalism: ethical standards, serves as a role model, models life-long learning
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Become an "Eeel:" The 17 E's of Electronic Education Leadership Excellence: L... - 0 views

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  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Encompassing!
  • Eliminate!
  • Eagerness
  • Excellence
  • Eudomania!
  • Expectations!  
  • 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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  •  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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Parent Communication: TO vs WITH | Connected Principals - 0 views

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  • 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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    30 minute video on 5 Levels of Leadership
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  • Everyone's job is different but here are 10 factors that psychologists regularly find are important in how satisfied people are with their jobs.
  • 1. Little hassles
  • Managers should find out about those little daily hassles and address them—your employees will love you for it.
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  • 5. Complexity and variety
  • 3. Achievement
  • People feel more satisfied with their job if they've achieved something.
  • 4. Feedback
  • There's nothing worse than not knowing whether or not you're doing a good job.
  • positive feedback can make all the difference to how satisfied people feel.
  • 2. Perception of fair pay
  • People generally find jobs more satisfying if they are more complex and offer more variety.
  • People experience honeymoon periods after a month or two in a new job when their satisfaction shoots up. But then it normally begins to tail off after six months or so.
  • You may have certain tasks you have to do, but how you do them should be up to you. The more control people perceive in how they carry out their job, the more satisfaction they experience.
  • 7. Organisational support
  • Workers want to know their organisation cares about them: that they are getting something back for what they are putting in.
  • 8. Work-home overflow
  • distancing yourself from work while at home are likely to protect you against job stressors
  • 9. Honeymoons and hangovers
  • 6. Control
  • 10. Easily pleased?
  • Why can't we all be satisfied?
  • If you're a manager looking to improve satisfaction at your workplace then start with point number 1: find out about people's little hassles and address them. It might not look like much but people will really appreciate it.
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Four Conditions Essential for Instructional Coaching to Work | Edutopia - 0 views

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  • 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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Today's Word: CRITICISM « John Maxwell Team | A Minute With Maxwell | Free Vi... - 0 views

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    Maxwell's message paraphrased: If you are a leader, you will be criticized. Leadership and criticism goes hand in hand. It's good though if you do the right thing for the right reason, even if they criticize you.
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TEDxYouth: A Great opportunity for Student Digital Footprint Development | Connected Pr... - 0 views

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  • 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.
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    Great idea!
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    A wiki that Jon Castelhano found while at ISTE
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  • you’ll find that it’s so much easier (and more fun) to sit on the sidelines and nitpick at what current leaders are doing than to actually do something yourself
  • Remember: you can’t blame your organization for not being _____________ enough if you haven’t stepped up to help lead them forward.
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  • 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.
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    Amazing post by George Couros
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    "ENRICHING STUDENT-CENTERED PRACTICES IN YOUR SCHOOL: AN INTERACTIVE TOOL FOR TEACHERS AND SCHOOL LEADERS"
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  •  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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