By Linda Lambert
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Educators at Sir Winston Churchill High School, also in Calgary, have used the protocol with curriculum leaders in order to examine their philosophies regarding education, with the staff as a whole during a professional development day, and even in the classroom. ) • Listen carefully • Ask probing questions • Unmask assumptions • Make connections and construct meanings • Consider process feedback understanding of the issues emerges when the protocol is used. Teaming and Leadership Development Teaming is perhaps the most challenging format for skillful leadership work.
Roles require us to tap new inner resources and adopt new responsibilities. In most roles, teachers need to understand and represent others, convene and lead conversations, identify and mobilize resources, and connect the thinking and planning of a given group with that of the whole staff. Such roles lead to a broader definition of what it means to be a teacher. Here are three examples of particularly promising teacher leader roles that I’ve recently come across: 33 34 LEADERSHIP CAPACITY FOR LASTING SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT • Schools in Kansas City, Kansas, employ a School Improvement Facilitator (SIF) to serve one or two schools as a change agent to facilitate the learning conversations in the school.
Parent/community involvement. 1. BASRC, an Annenberg-Hewlett initiative in the San Francisco Bay Area, employs many of the strategies for building leadership capacity. The schools involved have developed strong professional cultures focused on ensuring that all children learn well. During these collaborations, multiple assessment data help us find patterns that inform our instruction. Teacher leaders and the entire staff take responsibility for inquiring about the problem; researching possible solutions, answers and inventions; and implementing recommendations.
