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RECOMMENDATIONS
FROM HASCD & HCIL
RECOMMENDATIONS
FROM HASCD & HCIL
RECOMMENDATION #1
Being Intentional About Implementing Change
RECOMMENDATION #1
Being Intentional About Implementing Change
A key leadership practice includes understanding where all faculty and staff members are in any change process. Ray McNulty shares a useful framework (see below) for school principals to analyze (1) what group or category each teacher belongs to (Innovators, Early Adopters, Early Majority, Late Majority, and Trailers) and (2) what mindsets teachers have as they try to understand and deal with change. McNulty offers the following definitions:
Innovators – come to the change process with a mindset for change and then work on the process to engage and then the meaningful use of content.
Early Adopters – look for a process that shifts their mindsets and then engage content
Early and Late Majority – look for results before committing to change and then start with content followed by efforts to change process, which can lead to a change in their mindset.
Leaders should identify and provide strong support for “innovators” and “early adopters”, celebrate and highlight early wins, and share examples of positive results of change for the early and late majority.
RECOMMENDATION #2
Understanding How to Lead When There Is Stress and Anxiety of The Future
RECOMMENDATION #2
Understanding How to Lead When There Is Stress and Anxiety of The Future
Leading in times of unprecedented change requires principals to have a laser focus on what is their chief responsibility to help address the anxiety, stress, and uncertainty that teachers and students are feeling. Here is an excellent 3 minute video featuring leadership expert Marcus Buckingham on the best leadership development strategy.
RECOMMENDATION #3
Use Stories of Successful Changes in Education
RECOMMENDATION #3
Use Stories of Successful Changes in Education
The human brain learns effectively through the use of story. Principals can use inspiring stories of schools, teams, or individuals who achieved success when they faced crisis and adversity. In the following video clip, Marcus Buckingham talks about how leaders should learn how to tell stories because people are always seeking meaning in what they are being asked to do.
Here is an example of an excellent leadership story from former Principal Linda Cliatt-Wayman of Strawberry Mansion High School:
RECOMMENDATION #4
Review the excellent resources provided by Jennie Magiera, Global Head of Education at Google
RECOMMENDATION #4
Review the excellent resources provided by Jennie Magiera, Global Head of Education at Google
Jennie Magiera (twitter: @MsMagiera) shares a few great resources to help schools implement Distance Learning:
For quick start support to teach from home - g.co/teachfromhome
For in depth support - g.co/edu/covid19
Distance Learning for Educators - https://skillshop.exceedlms.com/student/path/27925-distance-learning-for-educators
RECOMMENDATION #5
Principals are encouraged to practice “observant leadership” and “adaptive leadership.”
RECOMMENDATION #5
Principals are encouraged to practice “observant leadership” and “adaptive leadership.”
With rapidly accelerating changes taking place all around us, principals should carefully observe the creative and innovative ways that people (including students) are using to effectively communicate, be engaged, and stay connected.
Ways of teaching and learning are being “invented” each day in front of our eyes on television, social media, and in each home as evidenced through performances and servant leadership by families and groups of friends. Principals can ask teachers to reflect on 2 questions:
“During this crisis, how are people independently being effective communicators, innovators, and global citizens?”
“How can educators empower learners and incorporate what they are already doing in a new design for learning?”
Principals must continue to be role models and “adaptive leaders” and aspire to the vision of Weston Keishnick on getting through this pandemic,
“The schools we walked out of won’t be the same schools we walk back into when this is all over. Our schools won’t just be different, they’ll be better.” - Weston Keischnick
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