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This book is for
anyone given leadership responsibilities or anyone interested in leadership
and the impact of leadership on school performance. In the book I will use
the terms administrator, leader, the leadership and the administrative team
in all of their various forms interchangeably. These terms are
meant to refer to any person in a leadership position for which the
circumstances apply. For example, in the Curriculum Development chapter,
all of the references to leadership in any form could mean any or all of the
following: principals, assistant principals, district curriculum leaders,
team leaders, department chairpersons, teacher leaders, curriculum committee
members, and so on.
This book is not an
attempt at being a scholarly presentation of leadership research, but rather
a very practical application of research that has been done by many others.
People that are in leadership positions in education at any level are faced
with incredible challenges every day, and I do mean every day, as you have
no choice but to take the job with you everywhere you go. So this book is
to help all leaders in education at all levels by giving them a few more
tools for their tool chests.
Differentiated
Leadership
Leadership for the Whole School
by Randy Thompson
Table
of Contents
Chapter One: The Involvement Model of Change
All
change is incremental, and differentiated leadership requires understanding
how to move a diverse staff forward. Administrators need a model of change
that will work for the entire staff. This model of change is based on the
level of involvement of each staff member throughout the change process.
The Involvement Model of Change will help administrators ensure that the
staff is on-board and ready for what is ahead.
Chapter
Two: School Performance Management Systems
Differentiated
Leadership requires that leaders identify the various systems in their
school and understand how those systems interact with each other. In this
chapter, administrators will see the eight School Performance Management
Systems (SPMS) that are in every school, and how the systems are
interdependent on each other. This chapter will walk administrators through
a planning process that will take into account the impact any proposal will
have on all of the School Performance Management Systems. This will
eliminate the unintended consequences that often happen when implementing
new programs.
Chapter
Three: Group Dynamics
All administrators
work with a wide variety of groups, and each of the groups are made up of a
wide variety of members. Since no two groups are the same, administrators
need practical strategies for dealing with the group dynamics. This chapter
is set up to be both diagnostic and prescriptive. Various group situations
are described and strategies for dealing with those situations are shared.
Chapter Four: Student Management
Differentiated
Leadership is about building collaborative systems of student management.
In this chapter, administrators will see how to develop staff ownership of
the student management process. The trick is to find ways for teachers with
good student management skills to help the teachers with not-so-good student
management skills. See how to get the teachers sharing strategies and
assessing each other’s discipline referrals in a non-threatening
collaboration.
Chapter
Five: Flexible Schedules
For
differentiated systems such as instruction, assessment and so on to occur,
the administrative team has to develop a master schedule to allow these
things to happen. In this chapter, the most flexible schedules are shared
to assist administrators with this task.
Chapter
Six: Motivating Staff with the Multiple Intelligences
In
this chapter, administrators will see how to design staff activities using
the multiple intelligences to motivate all of the staff members. We ask
teachers to differentiate instruction using things like multiple
intelligence theory. Now administrators can Differentiate Leadership in the
same way!
Chapter
Seven: Differentiated Curriculum Development
Administrators
have long struggled with getting teachers to develop integrated curriculums
that share standards and skills across content areas. This chapter has a
very easy-to-implement system that will get teachers sharing instruction
across content areas in meaningful ways. The key to the success of this
system is its simplicity; and administrators can facilitate differentiated
curriculum development which involves the Whole School.
Chapter
Eight: Community and Business Involvement
All
administrators understand the need for community and business involvement,
but often do not have the time or resources to put into it. In this
chapter, administrators will find another easy-to-use program for developing
meaningful community and business involvement in their school. The program
is called COMPASS which is an acronym for COMmunity Partnerships Assuring
Student Success; and you will see ways to create levels of community and
business support that were not possible before this system.
Chapter
Nine: Differentiated Staff Meetings
Administrators
will learn how to design engaging, interactive and motivating staff
meetings. Several staff meeting activities designed to present topics in a
differentiated format are shared in this chapter. The planning process and
forms to help administrators create differentiated staff meetings are
shared.
Chapter Ten: The Cognaffective School
Do
not run for the dictionary! The Cognaffective School is a school where an
equal emphasis is placed on the development of cognitive skills as well as
affective skills. As this chapter demonstrates, every strategy shared in
this book has blended the development and use of cognitive skills with the
development and use of affective skills. The blending of the cognitive and
the affective is the ultimate definition of Differentiated Leadership and is
the only way to achieve Leadership for the Whole School.
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