Today, our #k12 #coherence #podcast continues with an interview of a system-level, school administrator. Listen as they describe their educators' journeys from growing their self- and collective-efficacy to collectively sharing responsibility for improvements, over time, in student engagement.
For your convenience, the interview from Flipping the Focus’ YouTube channel has been embedded, below.
As you develop your leadership goals and plan for coming year, you might consider the instructional leadership exemplified, through the eyes of this professional, as a means of cultivating a collaborative culture for teaching and learning.
Below, a transcript (pdf) of the interview has been provided for your engagement. You’ll notice that the interview has been qualitatively coded for principles that surfaced through the thinking and actions of the administrator. The attributes noted include: Enacting Leadership for Teacher Wellness/Care, Learning on Behalf of Others: Professional Collaboration, Goal Setting: Professional Learning for Social Capital-SC1, Network Growth: Past Practice (Building Social Capital-SC2), and Openness to Learning: Building Social Capital-SC3. Themes are in bold; codes, underlined; and actions (verbs of building a collaborative culture) in italics. These qualifiers are colour-coded and included at the beginning of sections C, D and E.
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As improvement practices are well-supported by engaging the Coherence Framework (Fullan & Quinn, 2016) in one’s own context, you might find it beneficial to consider the attributes noted in this interview and making connections to those that define the Framework: Focusing Direction, Cultivating Collaborative Cultures, Deepening Learning, and Securing Accountability.
Reflective Questions...
- In light of the interview, what do you like about what has been represented? Why?
- Considering the context provided, what “moves” might push those represented (i.e., administrator, teachers) further up the mountain-top? Explain.
Final Thoughts
I would also like to encourage you to comment to this blog and/or share your own experiences with coherence-making. We are more than happy to collaborate with you and feature our learning, here, in this blog and across Flipping the Focus' social media platforms (Facebook and Instagram at Flippingthefocus and Twitter @flip4change).
Contact Flipping the Focus to see how we can work with you and your organizational improvement plans and processes through coherence-making.
Get Ready: Further Your Learning
In the coming days, seek to generate further insights regarding your instructional leadership goal-setting and planning through interacting with the content and suggestions provided in Episode 3 of our podcast: Shifting from Professional Collaboration to Collaborative Professionalism.
Professionally Yours,
Chris Stewart, OCT Student Achievement Officer (on secondment from the Upper Canada DSB to the Ontario Ministry of Education) Founder & Educational Consultant, Flipping the Focus (c) 2018
References
Fullan, M., & Quinn, J. (2016). Coherence: The right drivers in action for schools, districts, and systems. Thousand Oaks: Corwin.
Fullan, M., & Quinn, J. (2016, January). Coherence Making: How Leaders Cultivate the Pathway for School and System Change with a Shared Process. School Administrator, 30-34. Retrieved from https://www.scoe.org/files/Fullan_Quinn.pdf