why i notes
I am lucky to be part of the "why I" cohort in Birmingham Public Schools where we focus on the why in your leadership and empathy. @pauldsupt leads us in reflecting on why we want to be leaders in public schools and what type of leader we are. Here are some notes from our earlier December meeting. These questions may guide you in your own reflection about your leadership. 
12/5/2014
The difference between effective and highly effective is intentional. When learning stops, how intentional is a teacher about moving them along. John Hattie Visible Learning.
What is your greatest strength as teacher?
How intentional are you about that?
Think of a great teacher, what's their greatest strength?
What would others say about you?
What's an area of growth that you are working on?
How intentional are you about that?
Evaluation process is about intentional bettering practice. The greatest variable that we can impact in student achievment is teachers.
Rick Duford:" are you looking out the window or looking in the mirror?" Out the window is things you cannot control. The evolution process is looking in the mirror.
Circle of Trust approach
clearness committee is discussed in Park Palmer book on page 44 and 92
Clearness committee is a protocol that asks questions of your decision without giving advice
Touchstones of Circle of Trust
give and receive welcome; speak your truth in ways that respect other peoples' truth;
Reflection: so often we response with advice or our own story. As we tell our own story we are building connections. This protocols allows us only to ask questions, not fix and give advice. That's a hard thing to do. To be in service of others.
What's your Why?
I want to be an administrator to move my service to mentoring teachers from mentoring students. With the changes teachers are going through cataclysmic changes. There is a great need to support those people that in pinched between students and all the pressures from outside.
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