Michigan Coalition of Essential Schools SHARED LEADERSHIP: WHERE ALL TEACHERS ARE LEADERS Jim...

Michigan Coalition of Essential Schools

SHARED LEADERSHIP: WHERE ALL TEACHERS

ARE LEADERSJim Bodrie, Project Director – Michigan Coalition of Essential Schools

Cathy Meyer, Assistant Principal & SLC Administrator – TC West Senior High School, Traverse City, Michigan

Michigan Coalition of Essential SchoolsOutcomes:• Understand and use strategies for creating Professional

Learning Community and distributing leadership • Understand how one school is using the attributes of

Professional Learning Communities to research and identify a Smaller Learning Communities structure along with strategies to create a more personalized educational environment that will help to facilitate an increase in student achievement.

• Develop an action plan for implementing Professional Learning Community strategies and characteristics

Michigan Coalition of Essential SchoolsAgenda

• Welcome, Outcomes, Introductions

• What are your experiences?

• Distributing Leadership through Professional Learning Communities

• Traverse City West High School ‘s Story

• What connections can you make?

• Action Plan Development

Michigan Coalition of Essential Schools• Welcome, Outcomes, Introductions

– Smaller Learning Communities Overview – Michigan SLC Consortium representing Grand Rapids

Creston and Union, Marquette, Muskegon, Traverse City Central and West High Schools. Michigan Coalition of Essential Schools Technical Assistance Provider

– Breaking Ranks as a foundation– Vision: Building Professional Learning Community(ies)


What are your experiences with leadership?

Choose a geometric symbol or shape, which represents Leadership as it is presently occurring in your world. How does this symbol or shape capture the ideas, feelings, hopes, and possibly disappointments about what leadership looks like?


Generate a list of ideas and initial thoughts that come to your mind when

you think about distributive or

shared leadership.


Write the term “distributing leadership” in the middle of the paper. Sort your generated list of ideas according to how central they are to distributed leadership by placing central ideas near the center of the page and the not so central ideas towards the outside of the page.


• Connect your idea words by drawing connecting lines between the ideas that have something in common. Explain and write on the connecting line a word or short phrase how the ideas are connected.


Elaborate on any ideas or thoughts you have written so far by adding new ideas that expand, extend or add to your initial ideas.


Distributing Leadership through Professional Learning Communities

• Read the article “Facilitative Leadership” individually

• Select a sentence, phrase and or word that resonated with you most.

• Do a “whip” around the table sharing your sentence, phrase or word and explain why it resonated with you.


Traverse City Area Public Schools

• 10,000 K-12

• 2 comprehensive high schools

• 1 alternative high schools

• 2 middle schools

• 11 elementary schools including a Montessori

• Northwestern Michigan College

• University Center

• Primarily a hospitality and health field industry

Traverse City West Senior High School

• Presently 1850 students

• 115 certified teachers

• 12% Special Education population

• 30% Free and Reduced lunch

• Low Diversity; however it is increasing


Traverse City West High School ‘s Storywww.tcaps.net

What did it used to look like?

What does it look like now?

What would we like it to become?


Review WSH’s Journey Map along with “The Six Characteristics of High Performing Schools.”

What Comes Up?


• November, 2007: Grant Goals presented to staff. LT members identified and began unpacking the grant. 3 “big ideas” of Personalization, Academic Achievement, and Transitioning

• February, 2008: Kick Off Mentoring• February, 2008: Ann Arbor Skyline visit• March, 2008: LT intentionally created 3 TLC’s

related to the 3 big ideas• June, 2008: Review of WSH Standards• August, 2008: Revitalization of WSH

Standards, Freshmen Orientation and LT created the Professional Development Day’s agenda

• Board Curriculum Committee was introduced to the project

• District School Improvement Plan was aligned• October, 2008: PD day – each TLC looked at

the research related to their “big idea” and generated questions for fellow staff members to take to Noble’s Design Institute and CES’s Fall Forum. LT intentionally chose members to visit each place

• November, 2008: PD day – whole staff listened intently to presentations

• Visiting Teams decided we needed a vision statement. Staff was invited to journal on Moodle what they wished to see for WSH

• TLC’s pulled vision statement key words• January, 2009: CFG began to organize. • January, 2009: Day long planning session

reviewing all visits• Business Camp• CFG ran a staff meeting• LT ran lunch conversations before the SLC

structure vote• LT intentionally moved adults into

neighborhoods• Community roll out began

Michigan Coalition of Essential Schools• Identified big ideas and timeline• Created a shared understanding of goal areas• Met staff members where they were at• Revisited vision statement or WSH standards• Gave staff members back a sense of voice and control• Distribute the decision making to the Leadership Team

and the Critical Friends Group – with trust• Continuous Cycle of Improvement by revisiting vision,

timeline, academic achievement data points and goal areas – where are we now, where do we need to be, how far have we come


What connections can you make?

Michigan Coalition of Essential Schools• Action Plan Development

or

a Group Map combining thoughts/ideas/connections made


MCES Contact Information

Jim Bodrie: 231-730-7007, [email protected] Cathy Meyer: 231-933-7591, [email protected]

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