GLDC House Reflection by Daniel Musick https://padlet.com/dmusick/vbdot7i52dr4 What is the role of the GLDC? en-us 2016-12-05 13:09:28 UTC 2017-09-22 12:49:56 UTC hello@padlet.com House# dmusick https://padlet.com/dmusick/vbdot7i52dr4/wish/141720761 Step 1: Label response with House # (only 1 response per house required)
Step 2: Discuss the following questions:
  •  What should be the function of GLDC?
  • What is most needed/wanted to build upon the strength of this group?
  • What are the biggest challenges to the role of a GLDC member?
  • What are possible solutions?
Step 3: Record answers here in a new post.
Step 4 (optional): If you want to express your own thoughts afterward, please feel free to add them here in another post.
]]> 2016-12-05 13:24:33 UTC https://padlet.com/dmusick/vbdot7i52dr4/wish/141720761 House 6 https://padlet.com/dmusick/vbdot7i52dr4/wish/141891097 Question 1:
It's always been an evolving function. So:
  • Communication - both the receiving of communication and the distributors.
  • For FP folks, we're connected as a community, yet we have different needs. Meeting with other divisions is very important 
  • Troubleshooting ideas
  • Thinktank, bringing back ideas to our depts and taking their ideas back to this group.
Question 2:
  • Clarifying the mission of GLDC
  • More transparency for members of GLDC and the larger community.
  • If the goal of the year is x, then can we have one meeting a year devoted to that?
  • More time? We sometimes begin a conversation about a topic (like vertical curriculum) and have no follow up.
  • PD for us - i.e. how to we build teams?
Question 3:
  • Knowing what one's purpose is.
  • Repeated meetings - Same in GLDC as Divisional/All-School Meeting
  • Finding the balance between incoming information and sharing to depts. We deliver info to our depts. but don't have opportunities to bring back ideas to the GLDC.
Question 4:
  • Should there be a part of this meeting where we share out our depts' concerns/ideas  in positive and constructive ways
  • Task force (like there used to be) again to drive these meetings.



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What should be the function?
  • serve as a liaison between faculty and administration
  • make connections among K-12  initiatives
  • serve as an inter-divisional Think Tank
  • another way to build and sustain community

What is needed to build on our strengths?
  • concrete problems/projects for us to work on
  • authentic leadership opportunities

What are the biggest challenges to the role of a GLDC member?
  • being "middle management"
  • clarity about the role
  • clarifying lines of authority 

What are possible solutions?
  • take minutes at department meetings,  department chair meetings, GLDC meetings, etc. and share with broader community
  • clarify role/job description of dept chair, grade level leader, etc.
  • investigate leadership structures in different schools - gather info about what works
  • a retreat to re-envision the purpose, roles, responsibilities of the GLDC (and even question if we need it)
]]> 2016-12-05 21:32:31 UTC https://padlet.com/dmusick/vbdot7i52dr4/wish/141891126 House 2 https://padlet.com/dmusick/vbdot7i52dr4/wish/141891134 Question #1:
curricular development K-12 -- the goal is cohesion and continuity, not just oversight

forwarding the professional review process -- developing a fluency with Folio

serving as "the institutional fabric"

Question #2:

time, more frequent/regular collaboration

more mission-based work

more clearly defined goals and roles

continuity

perhaps a deliverable, an assignment of some kind?
helps with prioritization





]]> 2016-12-05 21:32:35 UTC https://padlet.com/dmusick/vbdot7i52dr4/wish/141891134 House 4 https://padlet.com/dmusick/vbdot7i52dr4/wish/141891146 What should be the function of GLDC?

•Implement the goals of the strategic plan
•Communicate (two ways from teachers to adminstration and administration to teachers)


What is most needed/wanted to build upon the strength of this group?

•Agendas from bottom up as well. 
•Identifying future agendas.
•Professional development for leadership skills.


What are the biggest challenges to the role of a GLDC member?

•How to better represent the issues of the people in the room.

•Giving and receiving proper feedback regarding topics.

What are possible solutions?
Solicit group for ideas.]]> 2016-12-05 21:32:42 UTC https://padlet.com/dmusick/vbdot7i52dr4/wish/141891146 House 1 https://padlet.com/dmusick/vbdot7i52dr4/wish/141891158  What should be the function of GLDC?
- Communication Hub (to allow for later sharing of information and motivations with various groups beyond GLDC)
- Sounding-board for big ideas
- Deliberate space for inter-department, inter-division, and inter-discipline work
- PD around working with groups of adults 
- Training around shared expectations of the role of GLDC members

What is most needed/wanted to build upon the strength of this group?
- Should there be more continuity for GLDC roles between divisions, etc.?
- authority to speak, in the context of one's role, to the mission of the school
- time together

What are the biggest challenges to the role of a GLDC member?
- We could use more clearly defined roles for GLDC members
- one-directional sharing of information (we should find a way to create a defined feedback loop, so that information comes to the group and from the group)

What are possible solutions?
- possible time for a retreat, or significant time together to reflect, build, collaborate as a group
- collect information about what we have been working on to reflect upon what has been useful, and build upon that
- tasking "Houses" to meet at times between meetings to have already done some work, with specific goals (communication/team resource: Slack)



]]> 2016-12-05 21:32:47 UTC https://padlet.com/dmusick/vbdot7i52dr4/wish/141891158 House 5 https://padlet.com/dmusick/vbdot7i52dr4/wish/141891211  What should be the function of GLDC?
*Facilitate Communication
*Help provide clear, timely, and transparent information
*Be empowered as ambassadors of school-wide goals
*Help bridge different divisions
*Allow for grassroots initiatives

What is most needed/wanted to build upon the strength of this group?
* Clarity of roles and goals in each division
* Clarity around decision making

What are the biggest challenges to the role of a GLDC member?
* Sufficient time for targeted communication
*Opportunities for leadership
*Feedback & Follow-up
*Translation from esprit de - corps to action - "how to bake the pie"

What are possible solutions? 
*Use GLDC more for targeted focus groups.
* Have measurable goals

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