Week+Six

Home stretch, BABY!!!! We are moving on to Week 6 of Effective Leadership and can see the finish line approaching on the horizon! This week we will turn our focus to school culture and promoting organization change (including implementing technology in schools).


 * Helpful Suggestions:**
 * Separate your reading this week to focus on School Culture readings for whole group discussion & Change reading for team discussion
 * Team discussion has three parts this week! We will need to get started early on the team discussion to complete Part 1 (quotation reaction) by Friday.
 * This is based on readings in the Change section. Read early and get this one done :)
 * Team discussion Part 2 is based on further ONLINE reading and review of CBAM and ACOT models.
 * Come back into the discussion once you get group discussion started and post about CBAM and ACOT models.
 * Team discussion Part 3 is more of a synthesis of our other two discussions. Ours will be relatively short (original post + 1 additional)
 * Team Reporter has to summarize our discussion in a separate thread.
 * Individual Reflection Log has two separate blog posts, but they relate directly to our readings on Culture & Change.


 * Team Goals**
 * Stay positive and encourage one another.
 * Our energy is waning, our nights are long, but our writing is becoming second nature!
 * We are organized and have this all together as a dynamic duo.
 * Let's try to make sure that we both complete Assessment Part 1 & 2 to get feedback by the end of Week 6. (I know this is a week behind what is recommended, but I am finding it a great opportunity to get feedback from Lynne as we go). Depending on the feedback I receive, I may try to knock out Parts 1-3 this week!


 * Weekly Skype conversation**
 * We are SO VERY relieved to have extra time to work on our leadership assessment. THANK YOU for removing the final reflection paper!
 * We discussed using EverNote or a LiveScribe pen to help capture reading clips and passages/quotes that we might want to compile for our Leadership Assessment paper.
 * We both felt that we were unsure of how to approach/start the Baldrige paper and Part I of the Leadership Assessment. All of our other papers and reflections have been very clear, but these two assignments seemed a bit daunting and unclear of how to approach them.