Middle Leaders Training Guide

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View this email in your browser SEPTEMBER 2021  |  ISSUE 012 Welcome Back *|FNAME|*, Of the 500+ middle leaders I have already worked with in the past month, more than 2/3 of them identified improving collaboration in their team as their professional development goal for the year. This newsletter has been specially designed to help middle leaders achieve that goal; complete with guides and resources for planning job-embedded professional development. “Collaboration is not always a concept that is greeted with open arms. Educators who have had success working in isolation may view this process as an invasion of their pedagogy and a waste of time. The key to strong collaboration is recognizing that a student shouldn’t be the responsibility of only one teacher, but of all teachers.”— Jason Perez, Head Principal at Heritage Trails Elementary,  As evidenced in Vicki Vescio et al.’s A Review of Research on the Impact of Professional Learning Communities on Teaching Practice and Student Learning, the positive correlation between teacher collaboration and student learning should be reason enough to put aside fears of “invasion of pedagogy” or of being evaluated. If we hold each other accountable for the success of all students, not just our own, then collaboration is not only necessary but should be our primary responsibility.  Collaboration, though, is not spontaneous and requires effective leadership. Therefore, once the team leader has been identified, the next step is to determine what training and resources they will need to succeed. Leadership training in and of itself only creates awareness of what is expected of a leader and provides additional lenses through which leaders should view their work.  Therefore, once the middle leaders have been oriented with the level of awareness and lenses commensurate with their duties, they need to invest an inordinate amount of time to transition from being a team leader to the leader of a team. The leader of a team is not at the center and supervising each team member’s work, but is tangled in a web of interdependent interactions. In this article, adapted from Chapter 6 of Hidden in Plain Sight: Realizing the Full Potential of Middle Leaders, I will explain how a middle leader develops their leadership capacity. Lesson Planning can wait; Relationships can't, Michael   FREE PD RESOURCES VIRTUALISING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT RENEE REHFELDT, MICHAEL IANNINI, AND EWEN BAILEY The Pandemic has made Professional Development more accessible and inclusive. Download this free guidebook on Virtualizing PD to learn how to make it more impactful to improve teaching and learning. This Guidebook includes the first 3 chapters of our book, giving higher-level guidance on how to coordinate effective Virtual Professional Development: What we missed when PD went virtual How to plan great PD What do we need to know to deliver great (virtual) PD? Download your copy now to start planning for the school year. LEADERSHIP MICRO-LESSONS Recorded Live Presentation COACHING AND LEADING WITH RELATIONAL ENERGY STEPHEN BARKLEY Stephen identifies 3 strategies that Administrators can be doing now to build relational energy with their staff. Relational energy is important because the more you have the more bought in and accountable staff will be for realising their development goals. Upcoming Live Presentation LEARNING DESIGN AND TEACHING FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATORS STUART MACALPINE September 29, 2021 | 4:30 PM (HKT) Using simple design processes can become a reliable and simple way of building learning together. Stuart will take you through a simple reliable process to prioritise, select and sequence learning together using a MIRO board. UPCOMING LIVE ONLINE COURSES ACCELERATE STUDENT LEARNING - PERSONALISED INSTRUCTIONAL COACHING STEPHEN BARKLEY  |  SEP 30 - DEC 3 ACAMIS Personalised PD Course Whatever your role, Personalized Coaching will assist you in developing your coaching knowledge and skills to maximize the presence of a coaching culture within your school. DEVELOPING WHOLE SCHOOL LEADERS: CULTIVATE THE LEADERSHIP OF LEARNING CLAIRE PEET, RENEE REHFELDT, MICHAEL IANNINI, AND EWEN BAILEY  |  SEP 23 (3.5 hours) ACAMIS Job-Alikes There will be 4 facilitators for this job-a-like, each will facilitate experience sharing and discussions to surface best practices and tools that contribute to developing whole-school leaders. ARTICLES I READ AND WROTE Let’s Begin with Success: Early Academic Wins Have a Lasting Impact - Teachers and students are returning to school with a lot of anxiety and uncertainty about how they will perform. Identify and celebrate meaningful accomplishments in these first weeks and use those successes to motivate teachers and students to tackle tougher challenges. Team Building: Making Values Explicit and a Central Part of the Team’s Work - Start this school year by taking time to appreciate how your team members view the world through the lens of their own values and belief systems. While this is easier said than done, I have a strategy here for surfacing values specific to the context of the team. Hong Kong 21 Day Quarantine Experience of Me and My Child - A 21-day hotel quarantine with a child is a personal hardship that many international educators have faced. I'm at the end of ours. Several hours were spent researching what to do and how to do it. Your First Team Meeting Agenda - Many teachers will be entering this school year with a cloud over them; a heavy feeling of grief and anxiety. To ease your anxiety and help prepare you for this first team meeting read this article on how to establish the foundation for having stronger interpersonal relationships with team members. ACAMIS Online PD Courses for 2021-22 - In my 10th year as ACAMIS's Contracted PD Coordinator and Leadership Facilitator, I am excited to present to you ACAMIS's PD Courses for 2021-22. This year I was driven by two priorities: 1) Every course must be job-embedded and 2) help broaden the professional networks of international school leaders. How Healthy is Your Team? - How brave are you to find out? Virtual PD Can Be More Effective Than Flying in Consultants - Virtual PD can be more effective than face-to-face. At the ACAMIS Technology Conference, I made the case for more virtual PD. Copyright © *|CURRENT_YEAR|* *|LIST:COMPANY|*, All rights reserved. *|IFNOT:ARCHIVE_PAGE|* *|LIST:DESCRIPTION|* Our mailing address is: *|HTML:LIST_ADDRESS_HTML|* *|END:IF|* Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list. *|IF:REWARDS|* *|HTML:REWARDS|* *|END:IF|*