educational leaders often operate in challenging and fast-paced environments, often fighting a fire-hose of new initiatives, emerging issues, and changing legislation, leading to competing priorities and overwhelm. but this doesn’t have to be the norm.
our unique approach supports leaders in districts to change the way they work, and become more responsive in their dynamic environments.
the challenges leaders face today are many - accelerating student progress, dropping in enrollment, staffing cuts, school closures, and staffing shortages to name a few. how well we address these challenges is due in large measure to the effectiveness of our leadership and teams. join us to learn the core principles that have guided charleston county school district's (ccsd) investment in their leaders.
in our years of partnership with hundreds of school districts across the country, we've noticed trends in how the way teams work together. our responsive leadership approach is based on more than 7 years of research and our work with more than 750 schools and districts, and was created to build your leadership toolkit to reflect, monitor, and strategize to get the most out of your upcoming school year.
build a robust leadership pipeline
build teams with the skills and habits to manage complex systems through changing times
create a culture for organizational learning
ensure meaningful collaboration
despite a common understanding that schools need to evolve or change in order to better meet the academic and socio-emotional needs of their students, when districts roll out new initiatives or programs to do this, they are frequently met with three oft-repeated statements: “that won't work here;" "that's just another thing on my plate;" and "that’s not the way we've always done it.”
these statements represent a larger concern: that schools and districts are overwhelmed by the amount of seemingly competing priorities they have and the various "new" ways of addressing these priorities. to support districts with this we began to think about how the six new school rules, pillars of any responsive organization, could be applied at various levels of leadership within a school and district.
leaders deserve to learn and grow through an intentional, needs-driven and personalized approach to ensure they can best support the educators they work with to make an impact on student achievement.
we believe that leadership is an organizational trait — leadership development is most effective and impactful when it happens within the context of the organization. responsive leadership is an approach that supports individual development within the context of team contribution and organizational purpose. we believe that schools grow when people grow, and that organizations that are structured to support continuous learning for all of the people who comprise the organization are organizations that survive and thrive.
as leadership expert tom northrup has written, “all organizations are perfectly designed to get the results they are now getting. if we want different results, we must change the way we do things.” in this two day institute, we discuss change management, organizational design, and leadership principles based on the best selling book, 卡塔尔世界杯32强比赛时间 : 6 vital practices for thriving and responsive schools.
district and school leaders will learn about trends in organizational design theory and the six rules for making teams more effective and responsive. we will provide an overview of the six rules, examples of how schools and districts have used the rules to become more effective, and opportunities to practice the rules and plan how to take learnings back to teams.
by the end of the two days you will design and lead more responsive, thriving teams through the use of the six responsive rules: