The Campus Leaders Academy provided a wealth of information as always. There are always more great sessions than one person can realistically attend, but one must choose. Here is a brief summary of what I gained from the sessions I attended.
Opening Keynote-Dr. Gibson
Dr. Gibson shared several things about performance excellence and what that looks like in your organization. To illustrate his point he provided two quote from Edward Deming that really drive it home.
"Everyone doing his/her best is not the answer."
"Your top 3 employees are probably killing your system."
The first quote could be interpreted a few different ways. The way I see it, you don't want everyone doing their best, instead you want everyone getting better. Your best isn't good enough if you best is the same it was ten years ago.
The second quote is a bit of a challenge to the organizational structure. Instead of all the work being done by a few select people, it needs to be spread out to the rest of the system. Not doing so feeds some of the "Deadly diseases" he says plague organizations. Some of those diseases include:
Power up your PD & Innovative Leadership
This was actually two different sessions, but the ideas overlap for me. Here is what I gained from the sessions together
Resistance to Change
The big idea I came away with from this session was that we need to be limited in order to become limitless.
The Future is Here
Lori Gracey always has an entertaining and fast paced way of delivering her presentations. This one was no different. Bottom line from this session, things are moving faster and faster every day. Despite that we have so many areas of resistance or denial in education. We cannot have successful students if we do not knock down some of the barriers we have in place. We also need to move away from the very prescribed way we offer some of our career tech courses. Instead they need to be much more general in nature to provide our students with the greatest opportunity for future success. We need to remember that the careers that most of our students will have don't even exist yet. The vast majority of careers available now, will disappear in a decade. When machines can replace thousands of jobs in a matter of days, we need to gear our students towards the careers that design, create, code and develop those machines.
Opening Keynote-Dr. Gibson
Dr. Gibson shared several things about performance excellence and what that looks like in your organization. To illustrate his point he provided two quote from Edward Deming that really drive it home.
"Everyone doing his/her best is not the answer."
"Your top 3 employees are probably killing your system."
The first quote could be interpreted a few different ways. The way I see it, you don't want everyone doing their best, instead you want everyone getting better. Your best isn't good enough if you best is the same it was ten years ago.
The second quote is a bit of a challenge to the organizational structure. Instead of all the work being done by a few select people, it needs to be spread out to the rest of the system. Not doing so feeds some of the "Deadly diseases" he says plague organizations. Some of those diseases include:
- Lack of constancy of purpose
- Emphasis on short-term gain/short-term thinking
- Merit rating and annual review
- Lack of trust...and corresponding costs of liability
Power up your PD & Innovative Leadership
This was actually two different sessions, but the ideas overlap for me. Here is what I gained from the sessions together
- Leverage the things you are already doing, but do them in a new way. If you are providing newsletters to your stakeholders, do it in a new way. Get it out there as many ways as possible & provide it in a way where you want all of your stakeholders to be.
- Youtube video
- Google Doc
- Create spaces for your stakeholders to collaborate digitally. Google Communities allows a common place to share resources. Whether it is teachers, leaders, or whoever fits for your team. Provide a safe zone for them to share successes and failures which could be done in a blog that has multiple contributors.
Resistance to Change
The big idea I came away with from this session was that we need to be limited in order to become limitless.
The Future is Here
Lori Gracey always has an entertaining and fast paced way of delivering her presentations. This one was no different. Bottom line from this session, things are moving faster and faster every day. Despite that we have so many areas of resistance or denial in education. We cannot have successful students if we do not knock down some of the barriers we have in place. We also need to move away from the very prescribed way we offer some of our career tech courses. Instead they need to be much more general in nature to provide our students with the greatest opportunity for future success. We need to remember that the careers that most of our students will have don't even exist yet. The vast majority of careers available now, will disappear in a decade. When machines can replace thousands of jobs in a matter of days, we need to gear our students towards the careers that design, create, code and develop those machines.
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