PBM Title | Description |
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| Description: Avoid the trap of jumping to solutions before identifying the root cause. This module helps leaders dig deep beneath the symptoms of problems to expose the root causes so that the right solutions can be applied. Find the true causes of the problem using these three quality tools.
Topics:
• Five Whys Analysis
• Fishbone Diagram
• Affinity Diagram |
| Balanced Performance Improvement Series - Developing a Performance Leadership Handbook | The purpose of a Performance Leadership Handbook (PLH) is to articulate clearly what school and district leaders should do to improve performance. Oftentimes, such expectations are communicated during group meetings and one-on-one conversations with individuals. However, a PLH codifies the expectations and provides a single document to refer to when addressing underperformance.
Topics:
• Preparing for Performance Leadership Handbook Development
• Creating the Performance Leadership Handbook |
| Balanced Performance Improvement Series - Developing Increased Parent Engagement in Districts Using the Balanced Scorecard | Collaboratively develop Balanced Scorecard performance objectives that promote meaningful parent involvement in the school district.
Topics:
• Refining Objectives
• Updating the Balanced Scorecard |
| Balanced Performance Improvement Series - Developing Increased Parent Engagement in Schools Using the Balanced Scorecard | Collaboratively develop Balanced Scorecard performance objectives that promote meaningful parent involvement in the school.
Topics:
• Refining Objectives
• Updating the Balanced Scorecard |
| Balanced Performance Improvement Series - Leading a Team to Develop a Balanced Scorecard | Translate your vision and strategy into action by creating a Balanced Scorecard for your organization. Based on the principle that “you can't improve what you can't measure,” the Balanced Scorecard is a management, measurement, and communication system that supports strategic planning.
Topics:
• Establishing a Performance Measures Dictionary
• Constructing a Balanced Scorecard
• Inserting Baselines and Targets
• Identifying Initiatives |
| Balanced Performance Improvement Series - Leading a Team to Develop Performance Foundations | As the leader, you set the direction, cast the vision and work to embed a set of core values in the culture of the organization to guide actions and decisions. This module examines what mission, values, and vision statements are, how to lead a team to create them, and how to determine their effectiveness.
Topics:
• Leading a team to develop a mission statement
• Leading a team to develop organizational values
• Leading a team to develop a vision |
| Balanced Performance Improvement Series - Leading a Team to Implement Visual Reporting | This module describes how to implement visual reporting by establishing a data room — a frequently used room adorned with charts that show data related to student learning, school processes, and stakeholder perceptions.
Topics:
• Establishing a Data Room
• Leading a Data Walk
• Leveraging the Data Room |
| Balanced Performance Improvement Series - Leading a Team to Select Performance Measures | Share with the organization and its stakeholders the results that drive the mission of the organization – and create an environment where you can begin tracking results to ensure that the organization meets its goals.
Topics:
• Generating a List of Potential Performance Measures
• Selecting a Final List of Performance Measures |
| Building Capacity of Parents to Help Their Children Succeed in School - Presenting Student Achievement Data | This module provides a step-by-step approach to presenting your school’s student achievement data to parents and other stakeholders in such as way that allows them to make informed decisions concerning their children and the school.
Topics:
● Gathering Student Achievement Data
● Analyzing Student Achievement Data
● Presenting Student Achievement Data
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| Building Capacity of Parents to Help Their Children Succeed in School - Presenting Student Achievement Data | Providing parents with adequate and timely information promotes good relations with the community and a better prepared student body. In this module you will share a comprehensive list of student achievement data specific to your school and district with the parents of your students.
Topics:
• Educating Parents About Available Data Sources
• Sharing Assessment Data with Individual Parents |
| Building Capacity of Parents to Help Their Children Succeed in School - Presenting Student Achievement Data | Description:
This module provides a step-by-step approach to presenting your school’s student achievement data to parents and other stakeholders in such as way that allows them to make informed decisions concerning their children and the school.
Topics:
● Gathering Student Achievement Data
● Analyzing Student Achievement Data
● Presenting Student Achievement Data |
| Building Capacity of Parents to Help Their Children Succeed in School Series - Sharing Student Achievement Data with Parents | Description:
Providing parents with adequate and timely information promotes good relations with the community and a better prepared student body. In this module you will share a comprehensive list of student achievement data specific to your school and district with the parents of your students.
Topics:
• Educating Parents About Available Data Sources
• Sharing Assessment Data with Individual Parents |
| Conducting the SST Meeting | Description: Helping students succeed is always the key focus of SST meetings. However, conforming to requirements and documenting issues and previous interventions are also necessary parts of the process. This modules shows you how to effectively prepare for, conduct, and follow-up on SST meetings.
Topics:
• Preparing for an SST Meeting
• Conducting an SST Meeting |
| Developing a Performer Path Plan-Mapping Exemplary Performances | Mapping the performance skills of an aspiring or developing leader in your school as supported by data using the 8 Roles of School Leaders™ Mastery Maps provides the documentation needed to build a Performer Path Plan that will result in meeting or exceeding performance criteria.
Topics:
• Mapping exemplary performance
• Building a Performer Path Plan |
| Developing the SST Process | Description: The Student Support Team (SST) process is designed to provide instructional support and to recommend appropriate interventions for all students within a school who are experiencing academic or behavioral challenges. The SST is tasked with keeping students in the regular school setting where appropriate or providing alternative placement where necessary.
Topics:
• Developing the SST process
• Preparing your school’s staff
• Engaging a team in developing the SST process |
| Giving Effective Performance Feedback | Description:
Performance improvement is largely dependent on frequent and specific feedback, and your ability to administer effective feedback to those you mentor significantly impacts their ability to meet performance criteria. This module explores ways to determine evidence and clear criteria and outlines strategies for giving effective feedback.
Topics:
• Understanding feedback and performance
• Giving performance feedback |
| Leading a Team to Analyze and Display Data Using Quality Tools | Description: Make complex issues simple and easy to understand for stakeholders by using quality tools to analyze and display information. School leaders and their teams can use these three quality tools to inform team decision-making for school improvement.
Topics:
• Process Flow Chart
• Check Sheet
• Pareto Chart |
| Leading a Team to Analyze Performance Factors | Analyze, identify, and agree upon the performance factors which impact the performer’s achievement and his/her ability to meet performance criteria. Resulting collaborative development of information can be used to inform actions and decisions regarding solutions and interventions.
Note: Perform this task before observing a performance.
Topics:
• Leading a team to analyze performance factors
• Leading a team to identify owners of performance factors |
| Leading a Team to Analyze Root Causes Using Quality Tools | Description: Avoid the trap of jumping to solutions before identifying the root cause. This module helps leaders dig deep beneath the symptoms of problems to expose the root causes so that the right solutions can be applied. Find the true causes of the problem using these three quality tools.
Topics:
• Five Whys Analysis
• Fishbone Diagram
• Affinity Diagram |
| Leading a Team to Conduct a Communications Audit | Send the right messages to parents and the community by utilizing effective communication planning. Conduct a communication audit when new leadership roles are filled, when there are negative reports in the media about your school, or the school is developing a communication plan to ensure audiences receive the right message in the right way at the appropriate time.
Topics:
• Getting started
• Collecting communications data
• Analyzing communications data
• Preparing a final report |
| Leading a Team to Conduct Action Research | Description:
Action research is a type of formalized problem solving in which practitioners collect and use data to assess student performance and investigate potential solutions to problems. Schools that regularly conduct effective action research demonstrate improved achievement over time.
Topics:
• Selecting an Action Research Topic
• Reviewing Related Literature
• Applying Action Research Methodology
• Analyzing the Research Results Data |
| Leading a Team To Create a Vision For Classroom Instruction | Description: Design and document a vision for classroom instruction that is tailored to your school and community by establishing learning goals based on the anticipated skills and knowledge needs of your region’s work force.
Topics:
• Establishing learning goals
• Designing a supportive curriculum
• Developing a content delivery plan |
| Leading a Team to Define Organizational Value Elements | This module shows you how to define the value elements of the organization to its stakeholders, its employees/members, to the media and the public at large – which is the first step to delivering that value, and influencing others to recognize it.
Topic:
• Leading a team to define organizational value elements |
| Leading a Team to Design and Develop Distributed Leadership | Description:
The Distributed Leadership Design Team provides each Design Sub-team with a Charter describing their role in implementing Distributed Leadership. This module defines the work of the Design Sub-team.
Topics:
• Validating the Cause
• Identifying the Solution
• Developing the Action Plan |
| Leading a Team to Develop Effective Verbal Skills | This modules presents eight specific verbal skills, the characteristics of each, and how and when to apply them. In this module you will learn a process for listening to the student, diagnosing the situation from the student’s perspective, and applying the verbal skills needed to resolve the issue.
Topics:
• Using positive tone and phrasing
• Asking effective questions
• Using effective phrases and statements
Updated 10.01.2010 |
| Leading a Team to Develop Norms and Covenants | Develop appropriate norms and covenants for group discussions and provide the support for mutual commitments and obligations to accomplish the mission, vision, core values, and goals of the organization.
Topics:
• Getting started with norms
• Getting started with covenants
• Leading a team to develop norms and covenants |
| Leading a Team to Develop Strategies to Implement Distributed Leadership | Description:
Using the vision for Distributed Leadership outlined in Module 1 as a starting point, this module describes the work of the Design Team as they lay the groundwork for Design Sub-teams to implement Distributed Leadership.
Topics:
• Analyzing the Data for Distributed Leadership
• Developing the Goals for Distributed Leadership
• Analyzing Causes
• Creating Design Sub-Teams |
| Leading a Team to Differentiate Instruction | This module is about leading a team of school leaders to differentiate instruction so that they may tailor the instructional design within the classroom to meet individual learning needs of learners. Differentiating instruction individualizes learning, piques the student's interest, and assists the teacher to develop a learning profile for each student based on his or her learning style and knowledge and skills of the curriculum standard. |
| Leading a Team to Implement Visual Reporting | This module describes how to implement visual reporting by establishing a data room — a frequently used room adorned with charts that show data related to student learning, school processes, and stakeholder perceptions.
Topics:
• Establishing a Data Room
• Leading a Data Walk
• Leveraging the Data Room |
| Leading a Team to Market Educational Involvement Activities | The link between family involvement and increased student achievement has been confirmed in multiple studies. In this module, you will identify opportunities to promote school activities and student achievement to encourage family participation and measure the effectiveness of those activities.
Topics:
• Communicating the Effect of Community Involvement on Student Achievement
• Developing Educational Marketing Messages
• Measuring the Effectiveness of Community Involvement Activities |
| Leading a Team to Prepare for Distributed Leadership | Description: This module will guide you through the process of examining your beliefs and leadership style as they relate to implementation of Distributed Leadership. You will select a Change Team to lead through this same analysis. The final step in this module is to develop a charge, or vision for Distributed Leadership for your school or district.
Topics:
• Exploring Your Role Beliefs
• Maximizing Your Leadership Style
• Defining the Charge
• Leading a Team to prepare for Distributed Leadership |
| Leading a Team to Promote Positive Community Relations | Promote positive community relations between your school and the community by providing staff support structures, establishing positive contact with the community, and improving the school's appearance.
Topics:
• Improving staff support structures
• Establishing community contact standards
• Improving the school’s appearance |
| Leading a Team to Select Performance Interventions | Identify the gap(s) between desired performance and actual performance by analyzing the causes. Target possible solutions and generate performance interventions to solve the problem, selecting those that have the highest probability of successful implementation, considering cost, time, culture, risks, and benefits.
Topics:
• Identify causes of inadequate performance
• Generate a list of potential performance intervention(s)
• Select the best performance intervention(s) |
| Leading a Team to Sustain Distributed Leadership | Description: The final module in the Distributed Leadership Series guides the Design Team to oversee the progress of implementing Distributed Leadership and maintaining the continued involvement of stakeholders.
Topics:
• Defining Ongoing Oversight of Distributed Leadership
• Maintaining Stakeholder Involvement |
| Leading Better-seeking Teams - Recruiting and Selecting | Description:
Select and recruit individuals who collaborate successfully as a Better-seeking Team on improvement initiatives to help the school and students achieve their goals. (Revised 05/10)
Topics:
• Defining personal characteristics of the BST
• Identifying team roles and responsibilities of the BST
• Recruiting and selecting a BST |
| Leading Tactical Meetings | Master the three critical elements of a Weekly Tactical Meeting: Lightning Round - team members summarize primary weekly activities and provide others opportunity for clarification questions; Progress Review - reporting key metrics toward the organizational goals; Real-Time Agenda - based on how the school/system is performing against its goal.
Topics:
• Getting Started with Tactical Meetings
• Leading a Tactical Meeting |
| Leading Team Discussions | Involve all team participants in a natural flow of conversation that leads to a common understanding of the issues for effective discussions. The discussion process includes effective questioning and active listening skills.
Topics:
• Asking Questions
• Active Listening
• Dealing With Counter-productive Behavior
• Leading a Discussion
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| Negotiating for Improved School Effectiveness | When parties can't agree on a solution to a problem or conflict, effective communication becomes critical in order to reach an acceptable agreement. This module presents a negotiation process that you can use to identify strategies that will result in successful interventions.
Topics:
● Know Yourself and Your Opposition (Analyze)
● Prepare to Negotiate (Design)
● Work Toward a Solution (Develop)
● Close the Negotiation (Implement) |
| Planning for Difficult Situations | As a result of many kinds of unexpected and difficult situations, students and/or staff can experience physical problems or threats at school. When these situations occur, the leader must be able to respond quickly in a manner that provides the safest environment possible to all individuals.
Topics:
• Updating your school safety plan
• Preparing school staff and community for emergencies
• Conducting a simulated drill |
| Teaming With Your Community | This module will help school teams plan and implement activities that engender trust and positive school improvement.
Topics:
• Understanding your community
• Teaming for better communications
• Teaming to provide greater student learning
• Teaming to serve your community |
| Using Leader Stories to Build Shared Vision and Commitment | Successfully influence various audiences in their organizations by developing a series of leadership stories. In this module, you will learn how to develop and tell leadership stories such as: Who I Am, Who We Are, and The Future Story. Leadership Stories drive school improvement initiatives.
Topics:
• Creating Your Who I Am Story
• Creating Your Who We Are Story
• Creating Your Future Story
• Sharing Your Leader Stories |
| Writing With Impact for Effective Communication | Effective communication skills form the foundation for successful school management. These skills are so basic that often we overlook their significance. This module focuses on ways to help you fine-tune and master this essential craft. You will learn how to analyze, draft, and finalize effective memos and business letters used for school communications.
Topics:
• Writing Memos that Matter
• Writing Letters that Mean Business |