The Artsminded Principal

1. The Artsminded Principal

2. How arts-based leadership enriches school culture improving teaching and learning Presented By Curtis Tye (Chair-HWDSB), Carol Mackenzie (HWDSB), Jennifer Tye (DSBN), Suzanne Stiegelbauer (U of T/OISE), David Booth (OISE & Nipissing University) The Artsminded Principal

3. Reflection-Principal Practice Please feel free to comment, using the CHAT FEATURE on the following questions while you are waiting for the conference to begin • Overarching question: What is an artsminded principal? • Why does this matter to me in my role as principal? • What and who does it serve? And it what ways? • How does arts-based leadership enhance staff proficiency and student engagement? The Artsminded Principal

4. Please standby, the session will begin shortly While you are waiting for the conference to begin, please use the CHAT FUNCTION to: • Introduce yourself and your team • Identify your role and the roles of your team members • Describe why you registered for this web conference The Artsminded Principal

5. Session Goals The purpose of this webinar is to assist school leaders in developing an artsminded approach to teaching and learning. Topic will include: • Inherent capacities of arts in school leadership; • Awareness and range of implementation strategies toward an arts-based foci on student engagement; • How an art-based leadership can enhance a collaborative school culture; • Leadership experiences and practices of an artsminded staff; • Attitudes and approaches of an arts-rich activities in the daily life of a school leader; • Mobilize knowledge on arts-based leadership to innovative teaching practices and student achievement. The Artsminded Principal

6. The Artsminded Principal • The intentional, purposeful, and meaningful act of a principal to foster creative and innovative practices by educators resulting in student involvement and improvement. The Artsminded Principal

7. Lens on Arts-Based Leadership • Benefits of Arts-Based Leadership Approach • Creating Conditions • Professional Learning • Arts Community & Instructional Practice • Shared Leadership…Constructing Co-learning • Student Voice • Highlights from Research • Process vs. Product • Changing the Learning Environment and Culture of School The Artsminded Principal

8. Questions • How do we highlight arts-based leadership in school improvement planning and throughout curriculum areas? • Which supports/resources are available to assist principals with this work? The Artsminded Principal

9. Creating Conditions • Planting the seeds of interest • Discussing approaches and looking for successful ones within the school • Capitalizing on teachers’strengths – find teachers to champion the cause – possibly a committee • Importance on Teacher buy-in • Creating a “Tipping Point” within your school • Designate time and budget to support the focus • Maintain pressure and support – requires principal vision and diligence and narrow focus The Artsminded Principal

10. Professional Learning • Defining the arts community • Envisioning and restructuring relationships • Planning, teaching and learning with artists and teachers • Informed instructional practice • A new learning: Integrating the Arts in the curriculum The Artsminded Principal

11. Arts Community • Envisioning and restructuring relationships • Planning, teaching and learning with artists and teachers • Informed instructional practice • A new learning The Artsminded Principal

12. Shared Leadership • Teaming approach to school-wide initiatives • Distributed leadership & Cross curricular arts practice • Co-teaching and the role of the principal • Plan with a focus-A mindset of ‘Artful Thinking’ The Artsminded Principal

13. Student Voice • Letting student ideas and feelings be represented and heard • Altering mind sets of students, teachers and parents • Increasing student achievement by deepening participation through forms of meaning making • Staff development - teachers transforming  student learning through artistic modalities that engage and challenge young learners The Artsminded Principal

14. Organizational Matters ...Back to Artsminded Leadership... How does this get achieved?: • A change of vision • Reframing the culture of learning What other factors to consider: • Shifting paradigms of management • Timetabling • Staffing • Plant considerations The Artsminded Principal

15. Next Steps • Reflective Questions • What is one action you intend to pursue as a result of this session? • Survey • Resource List – Developed and archived with this webinar The Artsminded Principal

16. Thank you for participating in this professional learning session! The Artsminded Principal