Igniting a Passion for Learning Creating Conditions for Change

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Igniting a Passion for LearningCreating
Conditions for Change

• Terry Holliday
• www.iss.k12.nc.us
• January 21, 2009

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Presentation

• Basic Beliefs
• What Does Not Work in Change Management
• What Does Work in Change Management
• Results
• Reframing Beliefs

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Sources

• Sense of Urgency John Kotter
• Six Secrets of Change Michael Fullan
• Reframing Teacher Leadership Doug Reeves
• Change or Die Alan Deutschman
• On Common Ground DuFour, DuFour, and Eaker

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Passion for Learning

• All children come to school with a yearning for
  learning. Our aim should be to increase the
  positives and decrease the negatives so all
  children keep their yearning for learning.
• Edward Deming

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Basic Beliefs

• If children are not learning at high levels, the
  adults have not done their part
• Parents have not created a system of
  encouragement and support for learning
• Teachers have teaching centered classrooms rather
  than learning centered classrooms
• Principals have created adult centered schools
  rather than learning centered schools
• What about state and national leaders?

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Basic Beliefs

• The vast majority of adults want the best for
  children and want children to be successful
• No one comes to work everyday and wants to fail
• A passion for learning exists in all of us

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Creating Conditions for Change That Will Last

• What DOES NOT Work
• Facts alone
• Fear
• Force
• Sense of Urgency, John Kotter

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Childrens Defense Fund Statistics

• 4 children are killed by abuse or neglect
• 5 children or teens commit suicide
• 8 children are killed by firearms
• 192 children are arrested for violent crimes
• 383 children are arrested for drug abuse
• 1153 babies are born to teen mothers
• 1672 public school students are corporally
  punished
• 1879 babies are born without health insurance
• 2261 high school students drop out of school
• 2383 children are confirmed as abused or
  neglected
• 2411 babies are born into poverty
• 4017 babies are born to unwed mothers
• 4302 children are arrested
• 17,132 public school students are suspended

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Facts Alone Will Not Create Change That Lasts

• Aim for heart first then head
• Great Leaders win over the hearts and minds of
  others

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Belief and Expectations Are Fundamental

• Pygmalion Effect
• If we expect our actions to have an impact on
  student learning then we will impact student
  learning
• If we do not think our actions can overcome
  impact of student demographics on learning then
  we will not impact student learning

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Hearts and Minds

• Keith
• Rodney
• Andy
• Call in to TV show
• Justin
• 100s of former students
• The ones we failed Brady, Statesville 7,
  dropout who murdered store clerk

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Fear Will Not Work

• Heart by-pass patients
• Must change
• Eating habits
• Drinking habits
• Stress
• Exercise
• OR DIE!!!

Change or Die, Alan Deutschman
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Force Will Not Work

• No Child Left Behind
• Top Down Management

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Source NEA Today
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Creating Conditions for Change That Will Last

• What DOES Work
• Relationships
• Repeating small behavior changes
• Reframing beliefs

Change or Die, Alan Deutschman
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ISS Story

• Fired superintendent
• Budget problems
• Low student achievement
• Low trust community and staff
• Low morale

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Leadership Style?
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Listening Process

• Three Questions
• What is getting in the way of student learning?
• What do you need to help all children learn to
  high levels?
• What do you expect from me as superintendent?

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Creating a Sense of Urgency

• Bring outside in
• Listen to employees who interact directly with
  customers (students)
• Publish results of listening
• Public display of results

Sense of Urgency, John Kotter
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Transparency of Data
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Modeling by Leadership

• Use of Quality Tools
• Issue Bin
• Affinity Chart
• Light Voting
• Budget Alignment
• Plan Do Study Act Cycle

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Results from First PDSA
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Communication and Support
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Implement Systemic and Systematic Process That
Work
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Repeating Behavior Changes

• You are more likely to act your way into a new
  way of thinking than to think you way into a new
  way of acting.
• Start with small behavior changes tied to
  systemic and systematic processes.

Michael Fullan
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ISS Strategic Planning Process
Conduct Environmental Scan and SWOT Analysis
BOE reviews and approves District Strategic Goals
and Objectives
Develop SIPs and DIPS aligned to district
Strategic Goals
Feedback on SIPs and DIPs and revisions completed
Approval of SIPs and DIPs
Deployment of SIPs and DIPs
A mid year SWOT and Environmental Scan of
Strategic Plan
Quarterly Review of SIPs and DIPs
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ISS Innovations

• Early College
• Alternative Programs
• Credit Recovery
• E-Learning
• Data Driven Decision Making
• ISS Triangles

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Just DO IT
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DO IT with Fidelity
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Vision was the KEY!!
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New Vision

• A school system committed to improving student
  learning by igniting a passion for learning
• Students
• Teachers
• Staff
• Administrators
• Parents

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New Vision

• Create a Sense of Urgency
• Bringing the outside in
• BNQP Reviews
• Raising the Bar
• Listening to staff who interact with customers
  (students)
• Share what we learn
• Public display of data

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My Challenge to You

• Believe in the children
• Believe in yourself
• Believe in your leaders
• Dont give up on the children
• Dont give up on yourself
• Dont give up on your leaders
• Dont give up on education
• Model the change that you want to see and by
  working together - the messengers we send
  forward to that time we will not see will thrive
  and carry forward a message of hope and belief.