Distributed Leadership

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by Jackson Robinson3 views·Updated Feb 6, 2021
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  1. today, I'm going to talk about distributed leadership at my
  2. school. 8 11 k, where I think we have a
  3. really strong leadership model.
  4. So it starts with administration who have created this model
  5. to ensure that they are able to make supervision of
  6. teaching and learning and bigger pictures, decisions that impact student
  7. outcomes, their number one priority so that everything that that
  8. does not have to do with that that does not
  9. need to be done by administrator has is given to
  10. someone else.
  11. Um, we have a lot of teacher leaders in our
  12. school, which includes a lot of out of classroom teachers.
  13. There's administrative assistant who assist the administrative team, usually somebody
  14. who's working on a school building leader license.
  15. Um, there's a data specialist, which is my position, who
  16. is in charge of overseeing our comprehensive education goals, tracking
  17. data to make sure we are on our way to
  18. meet them, identifying gaps and implementing programs to make sure
  19. we get back on track.
  20. Um, we have our I P coordinator who ensures that
  21. all of our students, who were 100% I ps all
  22. students, have quality types that are in compliance and serving
  23. their needs.
  24. Our dean attends to student safety and well being runs
  25. our PBS room.
  26. Does a lot of other, um, safety stuff works with
  27. our counselors are transition and job coordinator Um, uh ensures
  28. that all of our sins have a plan for what
  29. they do when they leave us, because they're not graduating
  30. with a diploma and they can't go to college.
  31. So make sure that they know you know what job
  32. program they're going to do and then also for students
  33. while they are with us.
  34. They all have a work study requirement in the transition
  35. Coordinator and job developer.
  36. Make sure that we have programs in place so that
  37. our students have work study opportunities.
  38. We also have three coaches currently who are just there
  39. to help teachers improve their teaching practice.
  40. That that's available to new teachers, veteran teachers, struggling teachers,
  41. everybody. It's about just kind of the day to day
  42. being a teacher organization instruction.
  43. So then our teams Oh, our teams, we have a
  44. lot of teams that are facilitated by teachers.
  45. Administration is involved, but they're really teacher led our data
  46. team, uh, overseas are comprehensive education goals.
  47. Make sure that we're meeting them in, enacts that action
  48. plan. Our curriculum team writes our curriculum, make sure that
  49. it is aligned to our standards.
  50. And our student type eagles as well as great level
  51. um, requirements are professional.
  52. Development team ensures that all of our professional learning actually
  53. needs the teachers needs.
  54. And it's something that is useful.
  55. I'm gonna gonna help us.
  56. Um, well received.
  57. Our instructional leadership team is kind of a combination of
  58. people who are on all of these other teams on
  59. dhe. Other things within school to make sure that we
  60. are communicating and kind of have a cohesive plan are
  61. people. Personnel team identifies gaps that are keeping students from
  62. being successful.
  63. So anything that's just like a student is falling through
  64. the cracks with their attendance or their graves.
  65. Maybe they're wheelchair is broken, and the their family needs
  66. a different contact to kind of fix it.
  67. Anything like that.
  68. Maybe the MetroCard onda.
  69. We kind of work with students and families and teachers
  70. to make sure those gaps are filled.
  71. Um and then our building response team deals with safety,
  72. which is like definitely are co vid safety response, but
  73. also things like higher goals.
  74. So then our teachers just more generally, we have a
  75. lot of model teachers who are, you know, well dio
  76. inter visitations.
  77. We'll just do 1 to 1 peer support lead workshops,
  78. new teachers, which consists of first year teachers.
  79. And until your teachers are all given opportunities to participate
  80. in our new Teacher institute, first year teachers get mentoring,
  81. which far, far far exceeds what the minimum requirement for
  82. that is is really, really geared at making sure that
  83. they know how to be a teacher at the end
  84. of that first year on any on 10 year teacher
  85. is also given some sort of leadership opportunity, Um, to
  86. make sure that, like a soon as a teacher, is
  87. even sort of ready, that they're engaged in leadership and
  88. growth in a way that's kind of thinking about them
  89. as a member of the school and just continuously building
  90. their growth.
  91. Struggling teachers are given opportunities to kind of build skills
  92. that will facilitate them, getting to a place with where
  93. they will be able to participate in leadership.
  94. They're given a lot of support.
  95. They are allowed to go to, you know, targeted workshops
  96. inside and outside of the school.
  97. Um, I really wanna make them supported.
  98. And then PLC teacher teams meet daily, not daily.
  99. They meet several times a week, and they follow a
  100. protocol to ensure that that, uh, to ensure that all
  101. teachers are engaging in a reflective practice.
  102. Eso then staff staff are really important.
  103. Our school.
  104. We have probably almost 200 pair of professionals.
  105. Um, they have, you know, lots of talents and lots
  106. of strengths.
  107. And we try to make sure that they have opportunities
  108. to use those talents and trip strengths and know that
  109. they are part of the school.
  110. Um, also, many of them are, um, in school to
  111. be teachers or related service providers, and we really encourage
  112. them in that growth and give them leadership opportunities that
  113. will help them along.
  114. That finally, the thing that I think is overlooked in
  115. most just really leadership plans that I've seen for schools
  116. that I think it's just the most important one is
  117. student leadership were there for the students.
  118. We make sure that all students of all ability levels
  119. have appropriately, appropriately rigorous leadership opportunities.
  120. We have school student led college career and civic readiness
  121. clubs, um, that meet once a week and students can
  122. participate in up to three.
  123. It's scheduled in a way that students have a choice
  124. of what they go to, but but we really try
  125. to make sure that nobody is excluded.
  126. We've got a gender sexuality Alliance of School Wellness Council,
  127. a journalism club, a computer coding club.
  128. Really wide variety of clubs performing arts work.
  129. Study. All of our students have a work study requirement
  130. for their commencement credential.
  131. We have many school based work study programs school store,
  132. cafe, many, many others.
  133. We have thes tops funds where students can get, um,
  134. actually paid to dio work study outside of the school,
  135. we have some work sites that are for full classes
  136. to go several days a week.
  137. We've got, like Party City goodwill, a bunch of others.
  138. We also have job coaches who would be a pair
  139. of professional who goes with 1 to 2 students to,
  140. ah, work site where they work, which, you know that
  141. includes Dunkin Donuts, CBS, 7 11 others.
  142. And again, there's there's payment for that with a program
  143. called co op tech where students can go for half
  144. the day Teoh a program outside of our school where
  145. they learn a vocational skill and they come back to
  146. us half the day and do their academics when they
  147. graduate. They could do that program full day, where they
  148. do the training half the day and then an internship
  149. instead of coming back to us.
  150. And usually those lead to jobs, Um, and then summer
  151. youth is just another internship program that we have that
  152. is paid, obviously in the summer, uh, classroom jobs.
  153. Every student has some sort of job in their classroom
  154. that is appropriate to their skills and their interests.
  155. Um, that that's the right amount of challenging.
  156. And then we also have a student council.
  157. So then, finally, we have a lot of engagement with
  158. our families, and our community and neighborhood asshole family are
  159. involved there, often given opportunity to be on some of
  160. our committees, um, and then also way just try to
  161. be an integral part of our neighborhood.
  162. I mean, I think all that contributes to our school
  163. having the sense that everybody feels like it is a
  164. shared success.
  165. Um, we it really serves our shared and inclusive vision.
  166. It also gives a sense that anything is possible because
  167. leadership is not spread thin because leadership is literally everything.
  168. So if we have something that we want to do,
  169. um, it's never how we're going to do that.
  170. It's, you know, which of the many people who are
  171. suited to stepping up into a leadership role would be
  172. best suited to this.
  173. And then they will take it on and do a
  174. great job because people really appreciate being given a new
  175. opportunity on dhe that really contributes to us being a
  176. successful school.