May+15th+Notes

Here are the notes from our May 15th meeting. Please feel free to amend.


 * Group A**

Purpose:
 * Network recourses
 * Offer guidance to those who want to hope but don’t know how
 * Inspire/motivate emerging leaders
 * Build awareness of multiple realities of
 * Business à schools
 * Variability among schools
 * Rich/poor
 * Urban/non-urban
 * Ethnicity
 * Local power
 * Resources
 * Explore avenues to expand and/or expand resources
 * Touch the community
 * Access applicable business/management techniques
 * Aiding the transition from the classroom to the administrative

Outcomes:
 * Development of skills for success
 * Team building
 * Budgets
 * Decision making model
 * L/T planning
 * Strategic planning
 * Stress management
 * Time management
 * Applying/transferring knowledge to teacher
 * Mentoring
 * Difficult conversations
 * Interpersonal skills
 * Public speaking
 * PR/marketing
 * Entrepreneurial
 * Ethics in the classroom

Goal:
 * Provide legal access
 * Provide outreach
 * Get principal buy-in


 * Group B**

Goal: § To develop a curriculum for assistant principals to learn skills through experiences and sharing of best practices. o Must be real time and transferable. o Give them time to apply what was learned. § To form a continuous model for leadership development § School improvement through community involvement and leadership development. o Develops techniques to access to community o Improve the educational outcomes (student achievement) through leadership o Give tools to go beyond managerial and procedural issues. § Equip principals of tomorrow with these skills in order to be successful

Purpose:
 * To facilitate learning through the sharing of best practices, by engaging the community.
 * Internal sharing: schools
 * External sharing: businesses and community

Outcomes:
 * Improve student achievement
 * Create an environment of innovation
 * Give tools to go beyond …..?
 * Become pro-active rather than reactive
 * To become successful instructional leaders by becoming an agent of change
 * Be equipped with the tools and skills
 * Utilize tools and skills
 * **__To better equip principals w/the tools and skills to become proactive instructional leaders (final outcome)__**


 * **Level One**


 * Managerial** ||


 * **Level Two**


 * Leadership** ||
 * **Level Two**
 * **Level Two**


 * Instruction** ||
 * **Level Three**
 * **Level Three**


 * **Strategies**
 * **Innovation**
 * **Change Theory** ||
 * **Level Four**
 * Innovation** ||
 * Innovation** ||

Need to have some sort of incentive for principals to buy-in the program so they will allow assistants to participate and apply.

Components of the program
 * Need based
 * Innovation
 * Strategic planning
 * Sharing best practices
 * Professional development
 * Running the school as a business
 * How to deal with bad employees
 * How to deal with unions
 * Communication
 * Handling the media
 * Team building
 * Negotiation skills
 * Outcomes


 * Whole Group Discussion**
 * Reso ||  ||


 * **Resource** ||
 * **Skill** ||
 * Stress Management ||
 * Leadership B’ham ||
 * Strategic Planning ||
 * Human Resources ||
 * Leadership B’ham ||
 * Public Relations ||
 * Leadership B’ham ||
 * Marketing ||
 * LB ||
 * Entrepreneurial skills ||
 * LB ||
 * Ethics ||
 * Current Trends ||
 * Case Studies ||
 * Dealing with Difficult situations ||
 * LB ||
 * Team Building ||
 * LB ||
 * Negotiations ||
 * Change Master ||
 * Strategic Vision ||
 * LB ||
 * Finances ||
 * LB ||
 * Grant Writing/Fund Raising ||
 * Volunteer Management ||
 * LB ||
 * Managing Upstream ||
 * LB ||
 * Conflict Resolution ||
 * Culture Builder ||
 * Networking ||
 * Team Building ||
 * LB ||
 * Negotiations ||
 * Change Master ||
 * Strategic Vision ||
 * LB ||
 * Finances ||
 * LB ||
 * Grant Writing/Fund Raising ||
 * Volunteer Management ||
 * LB ||
 * Managing Upstream ||
 * LB ||
 * Conflict Resolution ||
 * Culture Builder ||
 * Networking ||
 * Volunteer Management ||
 * LB ||
 * Managing Upstream ||
 * LB ||
 * Conflict Resolution ||
 * Culture Builder ||
 * Networking ||
 * LB ||
 * Conflict Resolution ||
 * Culture Builder ||
 * Networking ||
 * Culture Builder ||
 * Networking ||
 * Networking ||
 * Networking ||

§ **Skeleton Structure** o **Objectives** o **Program elements** o **Goals/purpose** § **Application process** § **Who’s managing** § **Funding/budget** § **Resource management** § **Establish an endowment for funding**
 * Needed by June 1st:**