Cultural Responsiveness

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When learning celebrates (and allows students to draw from) their culture, identity and background, their sense of well-being and belonging increases, and so does their overall achievement. Curriculum, classrooms and wider school environments should acknowledge and celebrate all of the cultures present in that community.

Link: Ministry of Education (2013) Ka Hikitia: Accelerating Success 2013-2017

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Student well being

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Crucial Quotes re Leadership

The Principal of Change

Stories of learning and leading

5 Crucial Quotes on Leadership and Why They are Important

May 29, 2018 by George Couros 

I am very passionate about leadership in education because a great leader saved my career.  She showed me the importance of tapping into someone’s strengths and bringing out more in someone that they believed they could bring out in themselves.  I am forever grateful for her guidance and think about her leadership often and hope that I provide just a portion for others through my work, in what she did for me.

Going over some of my favorite leadership quotes, I wanted to pick out five and share why they are so important.

1. “Freedom is actually a bigger game than power. Power is about what you can control. Freedom is about what you can unleash.” Harriet RubinThis is easily my favorite quote on leadership.  The word “control” is not something that is conducive to leadership, but for a myriad of reasons, many leaders make this their “go to” move.  Empowering others, bringing out the best in them, and trusting them to go above and beyond expectations, is essential to not only school leadership, but teaching. Freedom doesn’t mean “free for all”; there is guidance through the process. It also says that once you take control of the situation, a person will only (at best) do what they are told, not what they possibly could.
   Letting go can be one of the hardest, but best things one can do as a leader.
   
2. “Leadership is communicating to people their worth and potential so clearly that they come to see it in themselves.” Stephen Covey What I love about this Covey quote is that it reminds me that you can lead from any role or position. It does not shirk a person of responsibility, but it tells us that to lead, one must create conditions to follow.Some of the best leaders in education are classroom teachers, some of the weakest leaders are school administrators.  It is all about what you do for others, not for yourself.
3. “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” – John F. Kennedy
   In a time where the rate of change is faster than ever, it is crucial that leaders do not ask others to learn and grow why they stay stagnant.  If you are to “lead,” you must understand the past, present, and the potential of the future.  Leaders are not there to maintain but to move forward.  Without continuous learning, this is impossible.
4. “To add value to others, one must first value others.” – John Maxwell Strengths-based leadership is something that should be the norm in education or any organisation for that matter.  When people feel they are valued, they will go to the ends of the earth for you. If they think you are trying to fix their flaws, they will fight you the entire way.
5. “A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.” -Rosalynn CarterThis is a gentle reminder that “great” leadership is hard work.  It is easy to be the leader that just lets people “do their thing,” but it is not always effective.  Great leadership not only grows the organization but the individual, knowing that increasing the individual, develops the organization. Leadership can be hard and filled with difficult conversations, but that is part of the change process.

A reminder…The legacy of a leader is not in what they do, but what the people they serve do because of their leadership.

Debriefing Learning

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Waikato Anthems

Waikato Anthems

Hukanui Marae

stuff.co.nz/waikato-times Hukanui Marae

Pepeha

Ko Taupiri te maunga

Ko Waikato te awa

Ko Tainui te waka

Ko Tainui te iwi

Ko Ngāti Wairere te hapū

Ko Hukanui te marae

Ko Kirikiriroa ki te rawhiti te kura

Tū Tangata, Tū Māia

Ko Pippa Wright taku ingoa ko au te tumuaki

Te Tuturu-a-Papa Kamutu - enduring ties to the land

Tawhiao said:

“Waiho nga tatau o taku whare kia tuwhera mo te hunga e haere ana i te huarahi e kaingia ana e te namu”  - (Leave the doors of my house open for travellers on the path who have been ravaged by the mosquito).

Hukanui connects ancestrally to the Tainui waka.

Obvious Truths

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New Zealand School

How do we know we are in a NZ school?
Giving Mana to the Treaty.


https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1kbRtAnXY14j3h1TNlODDgwGRK9NRXn26R05Y2ClyO3k/edit#slide=id.g365ce4a30c_0_34


 Third year practicum SOE student ( Maori) comment. " Maori language and culture are respected at this school"

Te Whariki

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Student wellbeing.

http://blog.core-ed.org/blog/2018/04/nothing-about-us-without-us-student-wellbeing.html?utm_campaign=core-blog&utm_source=may-newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=wellbeing-link

Working with resistance to change -Mark Osborne

" We constantly assess the risk associated with change, but rarely assess the risk of remaining with the staus quo . 
 Weigh up -- irrational thinking , and status quo bias. 
 See slide re status quo and rational decision making.

Wherever possible prototype the change 
Strategically resource initially. 

Cognitive misperceptions  research
 Brain runs away from the possibility of a loss . 
 We dont want to lose what we currently have . - even if what we  are changing to is better.ground. 

  Reframe loss into gain as if we only focus on loss we lose 
 Use data to reframe loss possibilities .



Psychological Commitment
 Team experience - shapes behaviour 


 People don't want to lose control .

Resistance is shaped by group membership. 

Mark Osborne 2 Change Leadership Framework

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Change Leadership Framework 

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Task vs relationship Conflict 
Task 


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Tetra map- www.tetramap.com/
Action stations Tauranga based -
16 personalities 

https://www.google.co.nz/search?q=16+personalities&oq=16+personalities&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.14740j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

Levels of collaboration .

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Culture to support collaboration and co teaching. Get slide

Mark Osborne

Transformational Educational Leadership

 Collaborative - change perception of roles 
 Incremental vs Step Change.

• ipod
• email
• excel
• wikipedia

• Transformation - transformational leader- Steve Jobs , Henry Ford. 
• Doesn't work in education in schools.. Research what works best --ongoing incremental change is less exhausting , more sustainable.

Features of transformational change that work in education 

jarche.com

World cares about what you can do with what you know.

Features of transformational change that work in education 

Meaningful vision.  Be the change. Change readiness.

Moshe cohen
 Everybody aligned
 Change narratives-
 Anything that focuses on the organisation only is only meaningful to 20%

• Narrative re better society   Society
•  their colleagues - stakeholders             
• team     Organisation
•  themselves.  Me 

Change readiness. Why should I?

 Ceremonial  compliance... when someone is watching !!!

 Burning platform  scenario-- certain or probable death if guy jumps or stays on platform.

What are the compelling reasons you can't continue to do what you're currently doing.

What are the main sources of complacency in organisations.?

 Self assess re photo insert 

Is this proposed change appropriate for the challenge at hand. 

Research behind the intervention .

 More research Pippa ?

 Change readiness occur when 

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 Sharing practice- knowledge mobilisation. 

 Incremental alongside  transformational change. 

Maori Underachievement

Maori Under Achievement
 Have shared with teachers for discussion.

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