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Leadership Ideas
A Teacher Education Project Based
on State Standards
With Ashland University
Leadership Ideas
A company providing custom-built leadership
models designed to meet The Needs of the
Heart, provide Appropriate Conditions, and
achieve Successful Outcomes through:
Leadership and Organizational Consulting
Motivational Presentations
Staff Training
A Teacher Education Curriculum Based on
State Standards
A Collaboration with Ashland
University
The goal is to help young
teachers apply a
“backward design
process” to planning
their lessons, allowing
them to unpack state
standards and provide
their students the
opportunity to learn
what is essential.
(McTighe and Wiggins,
Marzano)
Purpose Statement
To introduce and provide teachers with a new
curriculum in collaboration with Ashland
University. The core curriculum will include
courses that focus on course content, teacherstudent relationships, student motivation,
teacher morale, and lesson design based on
state standards.
Classrooms Today?
Leading in a Culture of Change- Michael Fullan
Change is a double-edged sword. Its relentless pace
these days runs us off our feet. Yet when things are
unsettled, we can find new ways to move ahead and to
create breakthroughs not possible in stagnant
societies. If you ask people to brainstorm words to
describe change, they come up with a mixture of
negative and positive terms. On the one side, fear,
anxiety, loss, danger, panic; on the other,
exhilaration, risk-taking, excitement, improvements,
energizing. For better or for worse, change arouses
emotions, and when emotions intensify, leadership is
key.
Meeting the needs of the heart…
As one high school student, Reginald, said to me
recently: “I’d rather be defiant and stupid in
school than let the teacher call me a failure.
My friends know I’m not dumb, and we laugh
at the teacher together.”
“Stupidity and Tears,” Herbert Kohl 2003
The Bargain Students make with Teachers
If you will…
Than we will…
Show you care about the
material
Believe the
material can be important for us
Model how to act when
you or we make mistakes
Learn how to take
intellectual risks
Keep private anything
Personal
Trust you with
information that
could help you better teach us
“Fires in the Bathroom,” Kathleen Cushman
Schools must…
Provide
Appropriate
Conditions
Meet the Needs of
the Heart
CultureRelationships
Improvement
Conditions
of learning &
teaching for
students &
adults
Competencies of
Adults-/Content
Achieve Successful Outcomes
Tony Wagner, Harvard University
Leadership Ideas
How can we produce more “leaders of leaders?”
Universities do a great job teaching pre-service
teaching instructional strategies. Today’s
young teachers enter the classroom better
prepared with instructional strategies then
ever before. What young teachers need most is
to learn how to design lessons based on
concepts drawn from state standards.
Leadership for Incremental
Change
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Emphasize relationships.
Establish strong lines of communication.
Be an advocate for the school.
Provide resources.
Maintain visibility.
Protect teachers from distractions.
Create culture of collaboration.
Look for and celebrate successes.
Leadership for Second Order
Change
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Shake up the status quo.
Hold everyone’s feet to the fire.
Propose new ideas.
Operate from strong beliefs.
Tolerate ambiguity and dissent.
Talk research and theory.
Create explicit goals for change.
Define success in terms of goals.
Lesson and Curriculum Design
Ohio state standards have over 90 thousand
words of discrete bench marks that often lead
teachers to the notion that they are in a time
crunch to cover material. “Coverage” leads
to lots of classroom activities and discrete
lessons but little understanding. We need to
teach teachers a curriculum design process
that focuses on what is essential and builds
conceptual understanding.
Content
Content is the key to curiosity in the classroom
and the textbook approach to learning is not
only expensive; it is uninteresting to students,
boring and often not accurate. Creating
essential questions increases the likely hood
students will remember content.
Teacher-Student Relationships
Teacher-student relationships are often mired by
bureaucratic roles that lead to a lack of
empathy and sensitivity to student needs.
Teacher Morale
Teacher morale in many schools is low. They are
being asked to do things they know are not
sound educational practices, teach to tests,
and cover knowledge in lock-step, thoughtless
ways.
Meeting the Needs…
The needs of the heart, both for adults and kids, must be
fostered, respected and explored. Emotionally
intelligent schools are successful schools. Much of
what we do in schools is based on what teachers think
is important for future development. Seldom do
students see the need to learn for today and
immediately see a present use for what has happened
in the classroom. Teachers ought to ask this
important question: What do I want students to
remember about my class five years from now?
Ideas for Implementation…
Population…
Undergrad Students
Graduate Students
Young Teachers
Veteran Teachers
Administrators
Possible Format…
Elective Coursework
Required Coursework
Workshop
Continuing Education Seminars
Administrative Supplement
Leadership Coursework
LPDC Requirements
Thank you!