How to get the Best out of your team / Springboard Alumni

How am I actually developing the capability of my lead team ?

 Leader and coach

1. Clarity- clear expectations
2. Capability-
3. Motivation-want to do this   

Words - I know you are clear, I know you are capable. I know you are motivated.

 Help me understand the gap and how I can help you.

As a leader 3 areas for coaching. 

New Team

Take temperature... Is there a lack of confidence?

Take to a neutral envirt

Do a reading re growth mindset in prepn.

 Grievances??

Ted Talk 

Brené Brown | TED Speaker Re vulnerability and shame.

Ted Talk -watch as a team

Who we are.

What do we want to achieve?

Reset visions and goals .

Care enough-what can you change?

People may need to expose themselves to the team . See Ted 

Core framework and culture.

Response to question re a leader of teachers .

Create challenges to be a little bit uncomfortable .

CEO What works ? What doesn't work ?

 Upwards coaching /mentoring. Reverse mentoring .

 Youth ideas YLT - Youth leadership team - Learning Agility.

 HES a group of recently trained teachers as upwards mentors. 

Garth, Jenny, Edie, Bex, Georgia, Sarah. 

RT Team. Matauranga Team .

Issues for them . Expectations etc 

 What do they expect from a Principal. 

Never promote someone to a level of inability. 

Creating a team - diversity of thinkers .. not necessarily diversity in ethnicity /gender.

Think about the style of the people you are leading.

 Be mindful not to gravitate to people like self. 

 Discussions- if you dont agree lets discuss it..

 Then , we are going to commit to ...........

 Please dont play devils advocate .

 Responses  need to have rationale or be evidence based. 

Mentoring individuals 

 Is the leader managing their team or time effectively?

 If they are not in control of the above the team feels different. 

Individuals - When are you at your best?

1-10 scale. 

Where are you playing from each day?

What might your team see?

 Self - awareness- look at self first.

 Ask the right questions to get feed-back on own devpt.

What are some things I could do better.?

Exercise

Should we observe each other's team meetings ?

Leadership

 Where are we going ?

Why will I follow you ? 

How are we going to get there?

 

 

Bruce Moody Mathematics Change

Change involves stress but not distress.
Our role is to find out how to communicate with learners.
Flavouring
The interface between child and maths is  the bit we can change.
 What do children have  that we can work with .
Ways of thinking about mathematics is in symbolic form .
Solve problems in meaningful contexts .
Numeracy project had some good points.
 Can we change what is happening in the time we have .
 New material  one story a day . Change the numbers .
Do not need to ask how learners got to conclusion unless you really dont know .

Time Management Ian Narev

Time Management for Strategic Leaders

Presentation Notes

1. Mindset

Your time is an extremely scarce resource and how you choose to use it is critically important for the

achievement of your strategic objectives.

2. Strategy

Your strategy guides the use of your time.

3. Delegation

It’s the printing press for time and a win-win with your people. Delegation gives a sense of

empowerment. It requires a ‘safe’ environment, trust, and coaching for success. Some of your saved

time from delegation goes to coaching and communicating with others. Remember you cannot

delegate accountability.

4. Calendar

How do you forward plan? Build in the ‘need to do’ items, give yourself time for reflection (this must

be done but is likely to get pushed out), work with people who assist you to enable good calendar

management. Be a little bit selfish – you can’t always say yes to everyone.

“There is nothing more wasteful than doing efficiently something that doesn’t need to be done.”

5. Culture

Being the leader of your school’s culture is your most important job. An effective culture takes a lot

of time to build and strengthen, and it takes active day-to-day management. How you spend your

time signals the important aspects of culture – carve time out for it.

6. Energy

Your visible energy is the most important success factor for your leadership. How you manage your

calendar is critical to your energy levels. Find the conditions that make YOU successful.

Rating Exercise:

A. How well-planned is your calendar?

B. What proportion of your time do you spend on key priorities?

C. The energy factor – how energised are you feeling?

Mantras

James Nottingham Choice Challenges WPA

James Nottingham

  Choice Challenges 

John Hattie  choice slows learning down ? Less choice is easier 

curling parents ? 

How much curling teaching - smoothing the way .

Out of comfort zone learn the most 

Do we help confused chn  when we support instead of praise

How do we respond to confused .

That's a great mistake what can we learn from it  ? 

 Let's make it more interesting..

EASY IS BORING.

Wobbling

Looking for best mistakes to learn from...

Examine mistakes ...

Thinking about micro managing staff

We set the culture ... what do we want our students to be thinking.

You get what you measure ... what do you value..resilience ability to wobble and not give up.. question quality. what do we do that values this?

• where is this in our toolkit??

• Diagram prestructural to abstract. Powerpoint to come.
• Significant struggle is from multistructural to relational.
• Next week we are ..... tell parents so that they can discuss or practise
• you have to be challenged to have that sense of Eureka 
• Jamesnottingham.co.uk/learning-pit
• Discourage staff from focussing on achievement  you get what you measure .
• Focus on progress put before and after starting and end drawing attention to the process
• Let's not compare chn let's talk about progress
• eg.Writing from feb and improve it .
• Ask teachers about progress eg sketching book what are you improving at the moment?
• Feedback has to answer the questions , what are we achieving , what progress  so far , what are we focussing on next ?

Mem Fox @ American immigration

Mem Fox Account
I shared this with all staff not because it is Anti -American ... just to remind us how it might be to walk in the shoes of others.

"They made me feel like such a crushed, mashed, hopeless old lady and I am a feisty, strong, articulated English speaker. I kept thinking that if this were happening to me, a person who is white, articulate, educated and fluent in English, what on earth is happening to people who don’t have my power? 

That’s the heartbreak of it. Remember, I wasn’t pulled out because I’m some kind of revolutionary activist, but my God, I am now. I am on the frontline. If we don’t stand up and shout, good sense and good will not prevail, and my voice will be one of the loudest.

That’s what it has taught me. I thought I was an activist before, but this has turned me into a revolutionary. I’m not letting it happen here. Instead of crying and being sad and sitting on a couch, I am going to write to politicians. I am going to call. I am going to write to newspapers. I am going to get on the radio. I will not be quiet. No more passive behaviour. Hear me roar."