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This workshop allows leaders to better understand their role in developing a learning organization as that of a designer, steward and teacher. Leaders explore how to build a shared vision, challenge prevailing mental models, build professional mastery and team learning. They apply sense-making, systems thinking and activity theory in their IB World School context.

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Conceptual Understandings

• IB leaders are responsible for designing and sustaining learning organizations where students and staff continually expand their skills, attitudes and dispositions.

• IB leaders challenge prevailing mental models with new ideas and innovative methods in order to bring about change.

• IB leaders apply sense-making, systems thinking and activity theory to build a shared vision and continually develop their IB programme(s).

• Strategic aims that align with the Programme standards and practices, support development with all aspects of leading an IB education.

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This workshop is centred on identifying a problem or challenge (preferably systemic, e.g., academic achievement gaps, bullying, budget crisis) participants are facing in their school context and applying the key ideas of sense-making, systems thinking and activity theory to work through the issue. Participants will leave with practical protocols to help solve problems and develop their programmes.

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•Choose a quote on ‘learning organizations’ that speaks to you.

•Draw on your experience to create a story about why this quote exemplifies current and/or future practice in your context.

Post your group work under this section.

The twist: the story needs to be told in the form of a poem, song, photo collage,...

P.S: AI use is allowed ;)

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Abstract based off The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization by Peter Senge (Doubleday, 1990)

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Leading an IB Learning Organization- Think Piece

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Fill the table in the google doc.

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Session 1-What is a learning organization 

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Design your essential agreement for this workshop group as a learning organization  , using the prefix for each statement ‘We will …”

As designers we will ...

As stewards we will ...

As teachers we will ...

Be creative in designing the product.

Share here.

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How Principals Affect Students and Schools: A Systematic Synthesis of Two Decades of Research

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How Principals Affect Students and Schools: A Systematic Synthesis of Two Decades of Research

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“Principals really matter.” That’s the key finding in this report analyzing research since 2000 about school principals.

Read Chapter 7.

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The aim of this report was to:

• Help current Heads become even better in their role

• Provide inspiration and ideas for those hoping to become Heads in the future

• Help Governors as they go about supporting and developing their Heads

• Guide Governors in the appointment of Heads

• Help us develop new tools for assessing the suitability of candidates, thus giving our clients a distinct advantage when it comes to making headship appointments.

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Understanding the importance of culture and context 

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Individually, read text 1 or 2 (as assigned)

Reflect:

As a table group, draw a school in the center and apply the following steps to reflect on the text you read going back to

your own school organizational context as a point of departure:

·Connections: What connections do you draw between the text and your own life or your other learning?

·Apply your thinking to draft a short ‘School Organizational Profile’ to be part of a recruitment pack for a new leadership position in your school.

In your table group write a job description for the leader of the new school the team is creating.

Share below.

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Understanding the importance of culture and context

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How would you describe your personal vision as a school leader?

What does it look like? What does it feel like? What words would you use to describe it?

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Design a professional development workshop (45- 60 minutes) to up-skill school staff in addressing the challenge, shared goal or aspect of action plan, considering the quotations you have read about pedagogical leadership and intelligence.

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How do we think?

Share your mental Model

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Demographics: types of neighborhoods and who make up their school community

• Values, assumptions, beliefs in relation to how students learn, the role of the teacher, the role of the parent voice, who’s involved in the decision-making around student learning

• Traditions: what stories do they tell of their school history? What, who and how do they celebrate?

• Context: what opportunities do they have? What challenges do they face? What constraints do they have?

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What Leadership intelligences have you used?

Reflect on your learning during the day, and identify the three intelligences that have been most important, using the following descriptions as an aid:

·Strategic: articulate and promote a vision, build alliances and  manage resources to respond to changing needs

·Cultural: Understand and balance diverse cultural expectations

·Pedagogical: Lead the learning and development of staff, articulating SMART goals and motivating staff to achieve them

·Relational: cultivate trusting, respectful and collaborative relationships, promote and build the leadership capacity and agency of others

·Entrepreneurial: generate new ideas, redefine problems and act persuasively to get people alongside these new ideas

·Reflective: reflect on your leadership style and the impact your leadership is having on others

·Heuristic: understand multiple perspectives of complex issues and align decision-making and priorities with vision and mission

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Reflection

Learn how to to create a daily reflection practice to cultivate self-awareness and joy!

Photo by Alina Scheck on Unsplash

One of the main tenets of living an intentional life is self-awareness. Knowing yourself, why you are doing the things you are doing, and getting clarity on what you want are what help you make the intentional decisions that set you on your path to your version of success.

Self-awareness takes time and practice! The first step in that practice is learning to notice things like:

How you feel over the course of the day

How you feel before and after certain events or situations

Your thought process when you are making decisions

Your automatic reaction to certain types of situations

Your daily habits

It's easy to stay on autopilot as you go through your day-to-day. The days and weeks slip by with the busyness of life. Being busy becomes a default where you keep moving on to the next thing without making the time to look back and reflect on:

Your experiences;

Why you might be feeling a certain way;

What you have been spending your time on and if it is what you want to be spending time on; and

If you are moving in a direction you want.

Once you start to notice and reflect, you become more self-aware, and you can begin to act differently, instead of staying on autopilot.

Cultivating self-awareness through daily-reflection

A daily reflection practice is a powerful and simple way to learn to notice and cultivate that self-awareness to help you live your intentional life.

There are many different ways to have a daily reflection practice. I have even posted a different one in the past. You might use a notebook by your bed, or an app on your phone, or a spreadsheet. How you do it doesn't matter and there is no right or wrong way. The important thing is that you take a little time each day to reflect back and notice.

In my daily reflection practice, I use a Google sheet ( template). I can access it on both my laptop and phone and have a good visual of my entries. I spend 5 or 10 minutes each night filling it out as part of my bedtime routine.

The goal is to be able to have answers to questions like

What happened today?

How am I feeling?

Why am I feeling this way?

What will I do with this information?

How to start a daily reflection practice

Pick your medium. Don't overanalyze this step, just pick whatever initially feels right for you. You can use this Google sheet template, you can use an Excel spreadsheet, you can use a notes app on your phone, you can use a notebook that you keep beside your bed, etc.

Set an alarm or daily reminder. If you are worried you will forget when you are first starting out, set an alarm or daily reminder on your phone to go off each night during your wind-down time.

Decide on your questions. The questions are less important than the activity itself. The questions I use in my daily reflection are:

What went well today?

What was tricky or hard?

What did I learn or is there anything I would do differently next time?

What am I grateful for today?

Start filling it out! Spend a few minutes each night thinking about your day. It doesn't have to be a ton of time, 5 or 10 minutes.

You might have days that you don't have anything specific that you learned or would do differently. Not every day will be particularly notable. You might forget a day and decide to either skip it or fill it out as part of the next day. That's ok too.
This practice is not meant to be a chore that has been added to your endless to-do list but rather an opportunity to take note of your day, how you spent it, and work on building up your ability to notice.
Cultivating joy through gratitude

You will notice that I include, 'what am I grateful for today?' as the last question in my reflection. This is an important reflection to include because I believe it is the basis of leading a joyful life.

There is even some science behind it! Some of you may be familiar with Brené Brown ( https://brenebrown.com/). She is a vulnerability researcher and professor, author, and podcaster. If you haven't read any of her work or listened to her podcast, I highly recommend them. In her book, The Gifts of Imperfection, one of the findings that emerged from over 12 years of research was that the people who described themselves as joyful all had one thing in common: an active gratitude practice.

This came as a bit of a surprise because while she expected to find that joyful people were grateful for what they had in their lives, the data indicated that it's in fact gratitude that comes first. This is intuitive to me because it's in alignment with noticing. You have to notice the things that you are grateful for to appreciate them!

Admittedly, some days it is easier to be grateful than others. But it's possible to find something to be grateful for, no matter how small, every single day. It might be as simple as a stranger telling you they like your outfit when you are having a hard day. Or it might be that you spent a nice day with your family and you are grateful for the time you had with them. The what doesn't matter, just that you find something that reminds you of the joys in life, great and small.

Tracking mood, energy, and sleep

I take my daily reflection practice a step further and also reflect on a few other areas. I also ask myself:

How was my mood today?

How were my energy levels?

Did I sleep well the night before?

You can choose to add these in too, or really any other questions that are important to you. You can also keep it simple and stick to the basic questions. I like to include these because they are good signposts for me to pay attention to if I am not feeling well or struggling.

For example, if I haven't slept well all week, it is likely both a symptom of something and potentially a contributing cause of something else. It gives me data I can look back to think about and have a better understanding of why I might be feeling the way I do. Then I can make an intentional decision about what I might do differently or how I can better take care of myself. It's a positive feedback loop that I only get by practicing a daily reflection!

These might not be the right questions for you, but they are a place to start. They are a framework to reflect on what you did, things that were good, things that were hard, and things that you might try to do in a different way on another day. They are a way to notice patterns and be more in tune with how you feel day-to-day so you can cultivate your self-awareness and even joy!

Daily reflection spreadsheet template

Here is my daily reflection spreadsheet template that I use to give you a starting point.

Do you have an existing daily reflection practice? What is your process?

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Your Aha moments?

What is still not clear to you?

Your wonderings?

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Programme Standards and Practices 2020

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Checklist:

The school vision conveys a picture of what the future of the school will look like

The school vision appeals to best interests of the learning community groups

The school vision articulates attainable goals that are clear to everyone

The school vision provides guidance in decision making

The school vision is general enough to allow all members of the learning community to demonstrate agency

The school vision is easy to understand and communicate.

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What mental models exist for each stakeholders group?

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What does each mental model look like?

Students

What would you like to learn in school this year?

What kinds of things would make it a good school year?

How does the school meet your social and academic needs?

Teachers

What would you like your class to accomplish this year?

How are subjects taught?

How should we assess and how have assessments changed over time?

How are student needs changing?

How has student performance changed, year by year?

How has the quality of instruction overall, changed over time?

Parents

What would you like your children to learn this year in school

What would you like your children’s experience to be?

What relationships do students and teachers have?

How are parents involved?

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How to build a shared vision- free pictures

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Share your individual visions for your school, using the questions provided as a framework. Identify your mental models.

Identify similarities and differences in your visions.

Agree on a shared vision for your table. Present it in a visual way for all the group to see. Post it on the wall.

Reflect and discuss the opportunities and challenges this generative approach to designing a shared vision presents. *Consider how to involve all stakeholders.

What emerges as the actions that successful leaders could take to build a successful shared vision? How will they involve all members of the learning community?

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•Do you have a clear idea of what success would look like if the vision is achieved? How could you visualize this within the school community?

•How will you ensure that stakeholders are involved in monitoring the delivery of the vision?

•How do you review whether you are doing everything possible to achieve the vision? Does everyone in the school community know their role in achieving the vision? What opportunities can be built into the school calendar to review the shared vision?

Who owns the vision in your school community? Is their vision proactive or reactive?

Identify possible resources that may be needed by each group in the learning community in order to achieve the vision in their own context.

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Take the system intelligence inventory self-check: https://systemsintelligence.net/sitest/en/

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Leading the Educational Ecosystem- Group activity 

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Analyse one of the challenges below.

Answer the questions in the PPT.

•Academic achievement gaps

•Bullying

•Budget cuts

•Parental disquiet

•Professional association/union challenges

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Find or create an image that represents the educational ecosystem

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1.Lack of trust

2.Fear of conflict

3.Lack of commitment

4.Avoidance of accountability

5.Inattention to results

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How do we develop effective team learning? Group

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How do we develop effective team learning? Group

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·Identify a core set of fundamentals for effective team learning.

·Curate strategies that would further develop the effectiveness of the team.

·Select one strategy and discuss how that strategy could be applied with your own school leadership teams?

·Create a rubric which you could use to assess the effectiveness of your team learning.

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How do we develop effective team learning?

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RED: What still challenges you in terms of applying team learning in your context?

YELLOW: What questions about team learning do you still have?

GREEN: How has your understanding of team learning developed?

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Behaviors, Dispositions and Attitudes- Group 

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Identify behaviors, dispositions and attitudes needed as a leader for your component of a learning organization.

Share by posting on the wall.

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•Individually use each of the five components of a learning organization to help you explore your challenge aligned with the behaviors posted on the wall to arrive at a possible way to resolve that challenge/problem/issue.

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•Share with a shoulder partner and explain how you used each component, as well as behaviors, attitudes and dispositions.

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What Leadership intelligences have you used?

Reflect on your learning during the day, and identify the three intelligences that have been most important, using the following descriptions as an aid:

·Strategic: articulate and promote a vision, build alliances and  manage resources to respond to changing needs

·Cultural: Understand and balance diverse cultural expectations

·Pedagogical: Lead the learning and development of staff, articulating SMART goals and motivating staff to achieve them

·Relational: cultivate trusting, respectful and collaborative relationships, promote and build the leadership capacity and agency of others

·Entrepreneurial: generate new ideas, redefine problems and act persuasively to get people alongside these new ideas

·Reflective: reflect on your leadership style and the impact your leadership is having on others

·Heuristic: understand multiple perspectives of complex issues and align decision-making and priorities with vision and mission

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Reflection

Learn how to to create a daily reflection practice to cultivate self-awareness and joy!

Photo by Alina Scheck on Unsplash

One of the main tenets of living an intentional life is self-awareness. Knowing yourself, why you are doing the things you are doing, and getting clarity on what you want are what help you make the intentional decisions that set you on your path to your version of success.

Self-awareness takes time and practice! The first step in that practice is learning to notice things like:

How you feel over the course of the day

How you feel before and after certain events or situations

Your thought process when you are making decisions

Your automatic reaction to certain types of situations

Your daily habits

It's easy to stay on autopilot as you go through your day-to-day. The days and weeks slip by with the busyness of life. Being busy becomes a default where you keep moving on to the next thing without making the time to look back and reflect on:

Your experiences;

Why you might be feeling a certain way;

What you have been spending your time on and if it is what you want to be spending time on; and

If you are moving in a direction you want.

Once you start to notice and reflect, you become more self-aware, and you can begin to act differently, instead of staying on autopilot.

Cultivating self-awareness through daily-reflection

A daily reflection practice is a powerful and simple way to learn to notice and cultivate that self-awareness to help you live your intentional life.

There are many different ways to have a daily reflection practice. I have even posted a different one in the past. You might use a notebook by your bed, or an app on your phone, or a spreadsheet. How you do it doesn't matter and there is no right or wrong way. The important thing is that you take a little time each day to reflect back and notice.

In my daily reflection practice, I use a Google sheet ( template). I can access it on both my laptop and phone and have a good visual of my entries. I spend 5 or 10 minutes each night filling it out as part of my bedtime routine.

The goal is to be able to have answers to questions like

What happened today?

How am I feeling?

Why am I feeling this way?

What will I do with this information?

How to start a daily reflection practice

Pick your medium. Don't overanalyze this step, just pick whatever initially feels right for you. You can use this Google sheet template, you can use an Excel spreadsheet, you can use a notes app on your phone, you can use a notebook that you keep beside your bed, etc.

Set an alarm or daily reminder. If you are worried you will forget when you are first starting out, set an alarm or daily reminder on your phone to go off each night during your wind-down time.

Decide on your questions. The questions are less important than the activity itself. The questions I use in my daily reflection are:

What went well today?

What was tricky or hard?

What did I learn or is there anything I would do differently next time?

What am I grateful for today?

Start filling it out! Spend a few minutes each night thinking about your day. It doesn't have to be a ton of time, 5 or 10 minutes.

You might have days that you don't have anything specific that you learned or would do differently. Not every day will be particularly notable. You might forget a day and decide to either skip it or fill it out as part of the next day. That's ok too.
This practice is not meant to be a chore that has been added to your endless to-do list but rather an opportunity to take note of your day, how you spent it, and work on building up your ability to notice.
Cultivating joy through gratitude

You will notice that I include, 'what am I grateful for today?' as the last question in my reflection. This is an important reflection to include because I believe it is the basis of leading a joyful life.

There is even some science behind it! Some of you may be familiar with Brené Brown ( https://brenebrown.com/). She is a vulnerability researcher and professor, author, and podcaster. If you haven't read any of her work or listened to her podcast, I highly recommend them. In her book, The Gifts of Imperfection, one of the findings that emerged from over 12 years of research was that the people who described themselves as joyful all had one thing in common: an active gratitude practice.

This came as a bit of a surprise because while she expected to find that joyful people were grateful for what they had in their lives, the data indicated that it's in fact gratitude that comes first. This is intuitive to me because it's in alignment with noticing. You have to notice the things that you are grateful for to appreciate them!

Admittedly, some days it is easier to be grateful than others. But it's possible to find something to be grateful for, no matter how small, every single day. It might be as simple as a stranger telling you they like your outfit when you are having a hard day. Or it might be that you spent a nice day with your family and you are grateful for the time you had with them. The what doesn't matter, just that you find something that reminds you of the joys in life, great and small.

Tracking mood, energy, and sleep

I take my daily reflection practice a step further and also reflect on a few other areas. I also ask myself:

How was my mood today?

How were my energy levels?

Did I sleep well the night before?

You can choose to add these in too, or really any other questions that are important to you. You can also keep it simple and stick to the basic questions. I like to include these because they are good signposts for me to pay attention to if I am not feeling well or struggling.

For example, if I haven't slept well all week, it is likely both a symptom of something and potentially a contributing cause of something else. It gives me data I can look back to think about and have a better understanding of why I might be feeling the way I do. Then I can make an intentional decision about what I might do differently or how I can better take care of myself. It's a positive feedback loop that I only get by practicing a daily reflection!

These might not be the right questions for you, but they are a place to start. They are a framework to reflect on what you did, things that were good, things that were hard, and things that you might try to do in a different way on another day. They are a way to notice patterns and be more in tune with how you feel day-to-day so you can cultivate your self-awareness and even joy!

Daily reflection spreadsheet template

Here is my daily reflection spreadsheet template that I use to give you a starting point.

Do you have an existing daily reflection practice? What is your process?

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Your Aha moments?

What is still not clear to you?

Your wonderings?

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Identify the focus of the programme to be developed or further developed in your context.

In your table group, explain why you have chosen your particular focus and the positive impact you expect it to have on students and their learning.

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Create a visual showing how the various parts (PSP practices) connect to develop your programme focus area that will have a positive impact on students and their learning

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In table groups discuss what complexity and sense making means to you in your context, applying the reading to your case study issue.

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Individually continue to work with the visual representation of your PDP.

Add in the five components of a learning organization as part of the connections. Where would they strategically matter?

Systems thinking, Personal mastery, Mental models, Building a shared vision, Team learning

Add in the seven IB leadership intelligences. Where would they be most effectively used?

Strategic, Cultural, Pedagogical, Relational, Entrepreneurial, Reflective, Heuristic

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•Three things you have found particularly interesting

•Two things you would like to know more about

•One thing you are going to do as a result of this workshop.

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What should I keep doing?

What should I do less of?

What could I do differently next time to improve the participants' experience?

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1- Mercenary Teacher

2- Dinosaur Teacher

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Enjoy!

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