1. DLT Retreat
September 20, 2012

2. District Level Leaders
Please spread out
among school groups
to facilitate "mixed
group"
conversations!!!
Do you have the admin social next
Monday afternoon on your
calendar?? 3:30 - 6pm at
Carbones!!

3. Learning communities: Where
improvement is driven by the
commitment to improving students'
learning, well-being, and
achievement; where the process of
improvement is heavily informed by
professional learning and inquiry
into students' learning and into
effective principles of teaching and
learning in general; and where any
problems are addressed through
organizational learning in which
everyone in the organization learns
their way out of the problems
instead of jumping for off-the-shelf,
quick-fix solutions. p 128

4. Leading to Learn & Learning to Lead

5. Form a TRIAD of mixed job
responsibilities. Share your
responses to the following
questions:
• How do you distribute
your own time and
energy across
Quadrants I and II
behaviors?
• How do you recognize
and stop the drift into
Quadrant III behaviors?
• What do you do when
you notice a fellow
leader drifting into
Quadrant III behaviors?

6. At your tables:
• Discuss where your
CTs currently fall into
place on the PLC Flow
diagram.
• How does this lens
inform your planning
work?
• How will you address
the needs of teams as
they move around on
this framework?
"To keep your teams at a level of optimal
performance, you must achieve the
proper balance between their current
knowledge and skill level and the level of
complexity for the new task actions or
challenges." p 138

7. Leadership Metacognition
What commitments can and will you make to this team
about how you will lead in ISD 191 this year?
My Own Behaviors and My Leadership of Others
Thinking (How I lead and direct others)
(When no one is looking)

8. 60 Second Lecture
Join 2 - 3 schools into table
groups, use the "60 Second
Lecture" protocol to share
your response to the
following questions:
• How did you share the
Strategic Roadmap with
your staff or dept this
fall?
• What were some of the
responses/reactions?

9. Connecting the Dots...
Discuss and identify
our next steps to
develop:
• Direct alignment of Improvement
Plans, Vision Cards, and
Roadmap
• Common formative and
summative assessments for
Vision Cards that also serve as
evidence for Improvement Plans
• District-wide understanding of
the direction, the purposes, and
the pieces

10. "A rock-solid school vision
acts as a constraint on actions
that are inconsistent with it. It
is designed to unleash and
then focus the energies of the
school in a common direction
for the greater good of student
and adult learning. Although
you need to understand your
personal vision well, your
ultimate goal is to merge the
personal visions of all those in
your sphere of influence into a
single clear, concrete message
about which adult actions will
move your school closer to
your desired future." Kanold, p 17
As we roll forward with a district vision, what do you see as our
greatest challenge? How can we use the power of collaboration and
partnership to overcome it?