RBL Leadership Convening | December 2021

Module 2: Innovative Leadership Competencies

Explore the Innovative Leadership Competencies and come to a shared understanding of current individual and collective team competencies

Synchronous Session: Innovative Leadership Competencies - Introduction and Alignment

Making Connections - Innovative Leadership Competencies

Review the Innovative Leadership Competencies.
Take a moment to reflect on the competencies and the associated mindsets and behaviors.
Complete the two sentence stems by clicking the link and responding:
- Poll: I demonstrated Innovative Leadership Competency X when....| Facilitators may create polls to capture responses
  - Example: I demonstrated the Innovative Leadership Competency (3 - Unified Vision) when I led a collaborative cross-walking of our existing district frameworks with the RBL Implementation Continuum, and guided open team discussion to reach consensus about connections between the RBL IC and our existing frameworks.
- Poll: My team member demonstrated Innovative Leadership Competency X when... | Facilitators may create polls to capture responses
  - Example: My team member demonstrated the Innovative Leadership Competency (1 - Challenge Status Quo) when they challenged common practices in our lesson planning methods which were impeding BL implementation efforts.
- Use the Competency language as much as possible in your responses.

Activity Materials

<FINAL> Innovative Leadership Competencies with Reflection Stems

Innovative Leadership Competencies

Innovative Leadership Competencies - Which has been most effective?

- Discuss: Identify one competency and describe how it has helped support your district’s blended learning work to date. Use this sentence stem to share... "The Innovative Leadership Competency X - helped support my district’s blended learning work to date by/because…"
- Example: The Innovative Leadership Competency - Data Culture - is central to many of the blended strategies in the RBL Implementation Continuum and is helping support my district's blended learning work by providing a clear, agreed upon set of strategies for acting on student data.
  - Competency 1 [Challenge Status Quo]: Challenges the status quo to solve root causes to core problems.
  - Competency 2 [Urgency for Change]: Has a high sense of urgency for change and sustainable results in improving student achievement.
  - Competency 3 [Unified Vision]: Creates a commonly owned vision, builds trusting relationships, and leads the innovation scale process.
  - Competency 4 [Iteration Cycle]: Supports new student experience implementation through rapid cycle prototyping, evaluation and iteration.
  - Competency 5 [Data Culture ]: Builds new cultural routines and processes heavily reliant on data.

Asynchronous Session: Innovative Leadership Competencies - Individual Reflection Activity

Part I: Complete the Innovative Leadership Competencies Self Assessment

Click to "make a copy" of the Innovative Leadership Competencies - Individual Reflection Activity.
Complete Part I, the Innovative Leadership Self Assessment.

Activity Materials

Innovative Leadership Self Assessment

Part II: Reflect on Your Innovative Leadership Competencies

In the same file as you started on above, scroll down to Part II

Step 1: Double click on the hexagon image and use the drag and drop color dots on the corresponding competencies (mindsets/behaviors) to denote your perceived strengths and targeted areas for improvement.
- If your average is closest/rounds to a 1 - Color Red.
- If your average is closest/rounds to a 2 or 3- Color Yellow.
- If your average is closest/rounds to a 4 or 5- Color Green.
Step 2: Use the thinking prompts on the 2nd hexagon to reflect on your self assessment results.
- Here’s what I learned about myself... , So what (why does it matter)..., Now what will I do (Include the specific mindsets/behaviors you want to target for improvement).

Activity Materials

Individual - Innovative Leadership Competency Hexagon

Synchronous Session: Innovative Leadership Team Assessment

Innovative Leadership Team Assessment

A strong teacher can pilot innovation at the classroom level. A strong leader can sustain a pilot innovation at the school level. It takes the entire district leadership team to sustain effective classroom, school and system level innovation at scale. This team must work collaboratively to develop an explicit set of innovative leadership competencies and build the capacity among one another to support and scale the classroom and school level innovation.
Follow the questions and steps below to help develop a visual representation of your team Innovative Leadership Competency composition - your team's collective strengths and areas for improvement.
- Step 1: Each team member adds their individual (red, yellow, green) dots to the Collective Innovative Leadership Competency hexagon. Once everyone has added their color dots to the group visual, discuss the reflection questions below.
- Step 2: Discuss:
  - What stands out to you...
    - As overall team strengths?
    - As overall team areas for improvement?
    - Is there anything you can point to for why these strengths and areas for improvement are present?
  - As you consider what you’ve accomplished to date, how has your team composition either helped or hindered your efforts?
  - Who else is NOT here today...
    - But is deeply involved in the work? Please add a sticky note with their name and role. (No need to fill in their competencies).
    - Who else should be deeply involved in the work? Who are we missing at the table?
      1. What’s the best next step(s) to engage these people?
      2. Who is going to own these steps?

Team Activity Files - Innovative Leadership Team Assessment

Make a Copy

Innovative Leadership Team Assessment - one copy per team

Day 1 Wrap Up

What did you learn about yourself? What made you think in a new way?

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