#5 and #6

#5 
Kyle's presentation:

Kyle's summary of his chapter presentation-
"The authors stated that their main premise is that leaders must understand and bring together the challenges of both organizational and individual change to successfully lead improvement processes in schools and districts. We have discussed self evaluation and I feel that having a good sense of how to properly do that is the first step in doing this. A tool that was referred to a number of times was a four-column immunity map. This is used to help a person self evaluate".

"As principals and leaders we must set a good example ourselves. Growing is hard work. It is made harder if the belief is that people in leadership positions are supposed to have done all of the growing they will ever need to do to successfully carry out their work. When the adults in the school stop growing, so to do their students".

Sarah's Presentation:

One of the most talked about influences affecting education today is the influx of social media into cultures across the globe. Naturally, this has infiltrated into our educational culture and climate, causing a divide in developing competent leaders capable of leading change using social media.

Digital leaders need to begin by understanding…

Staggering statistics as of 2013:

• 73% of adults belonged to at least one social media networking site
• 82% of teens on social networking sites
• A study of 1,839 college students showed that 92% of participants used Facebook for an average of 102 minutes per day, logging in six times per day (Junco, 2012)
• Facebook is currently the most active social networking site with 1.28 billion users as of May 2014
• Twitter (2013), had 230 million monthly users producing 500 million tweets per day

The Social Change Model

• Developed in 1996 by the Higher Education Research Institute (HERI)
• A leadership development model composed of three levels including individual, group, and community
• Primarily used in higher education to train college students to become agents of social change

A 2 minute rap video defining the Social Change Model:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hP8kmPf8xlQ

These two presentations were well though out, and made me think about my voice, and how I can grow as a principal. Situations were brought up, and it was something that I had not spent time thinking about, but will in the future. It is a changing world and technology will be growing at an even more rapid rate. We need to think about how we can benefit students.

#6

Jason Leahy- IPA (Illinois Principal Assn.)

Phone interview

Vision 2020.org

What kind of professional development should one start with?

-know whats going on in your building to implement growth, have a mentor, professional or not.

Do you have to be a principal or administrator to participate in Principal for a day program?

Principal assessment- get along with others. Know your job. Not many principals have gotten into trouble through the assessment evaluation.

 Knowing who you are. You will be put in difficult situations, and have to make difficult decisions.

Bringing in more personal effect on the job.

All good admin want good feedback to get better, and it's really only being done half the time.

Recommended :

Daniel Goleman Emotional Intellegence

Reflect365- blogging about differentiating leadership, and the ability to voice a response on certain chosen topics to be published in this blog.

*Best practice

*Community building

*Advocacy work-SSP ESP