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Crisis: An Emergent Occasion for Transformation and Hope Professor Pat Maslin-Ostrowski Florida Atlantic University USA Distinguished Visiting Research Fellow, Australian Catholic University Victorian Association Catholic Primary School
Professor Pat Maslin-Ostrowski Florida Atlantic University USA Distinguished Visiting Research Fellow, Australian Catholic University Victorian Association Catholic Primary School Principals Conference 2015 Bendigo, Australia 7 May 2015
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…a direct link between supporting adult learning and student achievement. …effective practices for supporting your own and
My passion: cultivating professional development & learning opportunities that ignite and sustain leaders’ excitement in learning, growing and improving practice.
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Today’s school leadership context Learnings from wounded leader research Creating conditions for leaders to flourish Looking ahead
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st Century Mission expansion Accountability Pressures Technology profusion Did you know? Need to build capacity (informational & transformational)
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Challenges
Challenges Leader’s Role Defined problem & solutions Identify challenges & key questions/issues Problem Definition Problem definable Difficult to define Clarity of Solution Clear solution No clear solution Change in Roles Roles stable Roles change Change in Norms Norms do not change Norms may change
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#Budget Woes— “If they [my staff] want technology, I'm going to do my best to get that
resources, I'm going to work very hard to get the resources for them.” (Angelo) Technical
#Silver Bullet— “We want it faster, we want the silver bullet, we want the magical
to move four letter grades within a year.” “It’s figuring out how to do something that rarely or is never done.” (Raigan)
Adaptive
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What makes a fire burn Is space between the logs, A breathing space. Too much of a good thing, Too many logs Packed in too tight Can douse the flames Almost as surely As a pail of water can.
From Fire, by Judy Brown
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Understanding importance for Leaders to: be author of your own stories, have a growth mindset, ensure there is a support system to turn to for honest feedback, and reserve time for reflection to help sustain balance and perspective on being leader.
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Voices from the Coalface: An investigation into restoring the wounded leader, Judi Gurvich (Australia)
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who happens to be a school leader, preserve a healthy and real sense of self in the face of a host
and leading to a wounding crisis in the worst?
might fortify the impact of these challenges, and produce a mindset that leaves the person open to learn and grow from such experience?
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Ackerman & Maslin-Ostrowski
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Voice 52, Gurvich
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Maslin-Ostrowski & Floyd (2010)
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–from Fire, by Judy Brown
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Create a holding environment- support and challenge Create safe spaces to tell our own stories and to listen to others, as we are doing at the conference. Practices e.g., Clearness Committee, Center
It’s more about relationship than technique
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By invitation Be in the moment Respect other truths No fixers Turn to wonder Trust & Confidentiality (Palmer & Others)
Goal: Deep listening
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Story is one of the most natural ways that we connect to each other.
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the themes of this conference.
How might you experiment with new actions? New feelings?
check-in with each other.
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No man hath affliction enough that is not matured, and ripened by it. -John Donne I’m not afraid of death. I just don’t want to be there when it
The leadership wound represents an extraordinary source of learning and a critical opening to what may be most at stake in the practical exercise of leadership; namely, one's self.
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