Leadership Skills for the 21st Century:

I.                 Five Skills to Create a Better Tomorrow

Ø  Anticipation

Ø  Vision

Ø  Value Congruence

Ø  Empowerment

Ø  Self-Understanding

II.               Establishing the Philosophy and Mission of the School

Ø  The Mission – the direction of our efforts and talents

Ø  The Mission/Philosophy – the Restructuring Process

Ø  Applying Business Principles to the Restructuring Process for schools.  What we believe and therefore what we do:

§  Is what we are doing less than what we really want?

§  Then we have a mandate for change, improvement and a vision.

Ø  Six phases of a project

Ø  Success connection

III.             The Basics of the Change Process

Ø  The Problem-solving Process

Ø  Barriers to change

Ø  Conflict

Ø  Confrontation

Ø  Collaboration

IV.            Logistics and School Restructuring

Ø  Scheduling and reporting basis

Ø  What conditions do I really control?

V.              Teaming and Collaboration

Ø  Co-Teaching NCLB

Ø  Why?

Ø  How?

Ø  What?

Ø  When?

VI.            Academic Instruction – The What and How

Ø  What are we doing to support students having difficulty?

Ø  Curriculum alignment (Teach, test, etc.)

Ø  How can we more effectively involve parents in the child’s learning?

Ø  Why align the curriculum?

Ø  A “J” curve distribution.  The “Did we”?

Ø  Questions to ask:

§  What they need to know?

§  How are we going to teach this?

§  Do they really know it?

VII.           Data Collection/Analysis and Decision Making

Myth:  Schools don’t control the conditions of success.  What conditions do we control?

Ø  Linkage between Mission/Philosophy and Data

Ø  How factual do we know we are good

Ø  “Read ‘em and Weep – The numbers don’t lie”

Ø  WAR – Reports their impact

Ø  NCLB – The easy, effective way to comply

VIII.         Technology

Ø  Technology:  How it changes the school and the way we do business

Ø  Using technology to accomplish age-old educational tenet’s effectiveness:  instant feedback, individualizing instruction, establishing school and community partnerships, communications, diagnosis and prescription of learning/instruction, staff collaboration.

Ø  How technology can be utilized to assist administrators in the development of Individualized Education Plans for students

Ø  How to use technology to assist with NCLB (No Child Left Behind)

IX.            Communicating Education

Ø  Scaling up

Ø  Change

Ø  Replicate

Ø  Expectations

Ø  The “Good News” in a society that loves “Bad News”

Ø  What are the facts according to ETS and how do they compare to the political and media frenzy?

Ø  If you always do what you have done, you will always get what you got.

Ø  Why is it that we never do what we know works?

Ø  What we live – we learn

What we learn – we practice

What we practice – we become

What we become – has consequences

X.              Keynote address:  “You Must Make Music”

XI.            “Seven Kinds of Smart”

XII.           Adaptations, Instructional Approaches and Modifications

XIII.         Integration

XIV.        Cooperative Learning

XV.          Learning Disabilities – Strategies and Adaptations

XVI.        WAR (Weekly Academic Reports)

XVII.      “Tips for Teachers”

XVIII.     Direct Instruction

Ø  Definitions

Ø  Characteristics and Elements

Ø  Feedback and Correctives

Ø  Independent Practice

Ø  Weekly and Monthly Reviews

Ø  Expected Outcomes

Ø  Myths

XIX.        Strategies to Motivate

Ø  Tactics to motivate students for common problems, for most special education exceptionalities and by academic subject area