I just love this stuff! Now you can hear from Dr. Reeves, via Jackie's perception and take aways! Stay tuned more to come tonight. It was a Changing Day for me! My mind is spinning and we can do so much with the right stuff, people and practice.
Douglas B. Reeves 2011
Dr. Reeves is the founder of The Leadership and Learning Center. In partnership with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, the Center serves school systems around the world. Dr. Reeves is the author of 30 books and many articles. He received the highest honor from the National Staff Development Council for his lifetime contributions to the field of professional development. He was named the Brock International Laureate for his contributions to education, received the Distinguished Service Award from the National Association of Secondary School Principals, and the
Parents’ Choice Award for his writing for children and parents.
Leadership Focus:
Doing the Right Things, Right Now
The big ideas:
Moral Imperative - • Impact, not popularity
• Sacrifice, not bargaining
• Values, not money
• Learning Activity #1
– Essential goals
– Present Reality
–Moral Imperative
The Essentials: Focus, Monitoring, and Efficacy
Change Leadership
Evidence
Sustainability
Implementation - The impact of implementation on student achievement. How do you
measure implementation? Create an implementation rubric.
Implementation Rubric
• Specify a CURRENT strategy
• Proficient
• Progressing
• Not meeting standards
• Exemplary – challenge your most experienced and expert staff
Planning for success
• Efficacy – bone deep belief that teaching and leadership matter
• Prioritization – six or fewer
• Specificity
• Measurability
• Monitoring (adult actions, not just test scores
Don’t blame the teachers until we solve the poverty issues
Social Injustice and Poverty – solve it.
More than six priorities inversely related to achievement
• 90% faculty participation, 3-5 times higher achievement gains than 10% faculty participation
• PRACTICES, not PROGRAMS
Stop engaging in the toxic conversation and engage in the productive conversations so build the practices.
Coaching – not used correctly. Need direct modeling in the classroom.
For every workshop should equal 7 days of 1:1 modeling.
Coaching is getting cut because it is not being done right.
FOCUS FOCUS FOCUS
90 90 90 schools:
-Laser like focus on achievement
-Collaborative scoring
-Non- fiction writing
-Multiple opportunities for success
See the change:
From 90 90 90 to 100 100 100
• Poverty levels increasing
• Second language students increasing
• Parental anxiety and stress increasing
• And . . .
• Dramatic reduction in failures
• Increase in college credit
• Improvement in discipline and morale
-Teachers and leaders burned to a cinder doing EVERYTHING their boards and administrators require – even high scores on implementation of two dozen initiatives – BUT WITHOUT FOCUS, they score LOWER Than other schools.
The Focus Imperative
Focus at one item at detail. Also use the motivational ways to engage people!
Factor Analysis - look at millions of starts of data and find the constellation – what fits together
• Three of 21 factors have disproportionate influence – Focus, monitoring, efficacy
Twice the gains!
- Schools with the highest levels of focus and monitoring achieved twice the gains
in reading over three years compared to schools with the lowest levels of focus
and monitoring improvements
• Focus – six or fewer priorities
• Monitoring – adult actions, not just test scores
• Efficacy – teacher conviction in their impact on student results
Focus Tool: The Implementation Audit
• 1) What is our initiative inventory? Find all of the layers.
• 2) What is the range of implementation? Doing it or not doing it?
• 3) What is the impact of implementation on student achievement? What is the real impact of
student achievement?
Using the Implementation Audit
High Impact – Lead and Invest
Low Impact – Weed and Evaluate
Choose to weed or not to weed and what to weed.
Standards of Evidence
• Belief
• Experience
• Shared opinions
• Objective observation
• Preponderance of the evidence
Ask people the next time, is this based on belief, experience, opinion, observation or the 2% of evidence?
Today will be a success if . . .
• Lead while managing conflicting priorities
• Use technology to implement change
• Maintain focus without getting into focus
• Organizing and prioritizing mandates withdecreased staff
• Help staff incorporate best practices
• From concept to implementation – get the
“but” out of the room
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