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1. Six Pillars of Dynamic Schools(Handouts) Louisville, Kentucky
July 22, 2010
3:00-4:00
2. “Never stop looking for your next job”Warren Edwards 1974 2
3. Who am I?
4. The Six Pillars
5. Why Six Pillars
Why I wrote this book
The audience
The context
The content
The goal
6. The Context For Change“When you come to the fork in the road, take it.”Yogi Berra
7. Bringing Our Schools Out Of The 20th Century
8. “No generation in history has been so thoroughly prepared for the industrial age”David Warlick
9. The Six Pillars
Communication and relationships
Leadership and empowerment
Planning and evaluation
Collaboration
Accountability and responsibility
Consistency and redundancy
10. The Six Pillars And The Four Macro Trends
11. The Four Macro-Trends Of The 21st Century The four macro trends should drive decision in our schools
Globalization
Localization
Digitalization
Fragmentation
14. The Six Pillars(In a little more detail)
15. Communication and Relationships
Go with the force
Personalization
Dealing with resistors
Staff
Students
Parents
16. Our Varsity Step Team
17. The Bell-Shaped Curve
18. Tiggers and Eeyores
19. Leadership And Empowerment
Vision
Deal in reality-Harry Truman
Empowering others
Adaptability
Flexibility
20. No School Can Rise Above The Constraints Of Its Leadership
21. Leadership Curves
22. We Cannot Always Trust That People Will Make Good Decisions
23. Planning And Evaluation
Being data driven
Needs vs. wants
The lasting impact of poor planning
24. Collaboration
Isolation
Building teams
PLC
Engaging the “inside” and “outside world”
25. Collaboration: Essential Elements
Collaboration must focus on:
Clearly established norms
Clear outcomes
Results driven
Data based conversations
The inquiry process
26. Accountability And Responsibility
What does accountability look like?
Accountability at all levels
Shared responsibility
27. Are You Above or Below the Line?
28. Consistency And Redundancy
Routines
Consistency from the start
Being redundant about the right things
29. The Knowing-Doing Gap
30. Sustainability and Resiliency
31. Sustainability and Resiliency
32. Resiliency Resiliency
Accepts that change is inevitable and in many cases out of our hands
Focusing on the need to be able to withstand the unexpected
33. Create A Sense Of Urgency (About What Matters)
34. For More Information Contact:
Edwards Educational Services, Inc.
Phone: 703-837-0223
Website: www.realityedservices.com
Email: steve@realityedservices.com