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Leading the HRS Initiative

Dr. Phil Warrick


Welcome Back For Day Two

High Reliability Schools Summit


Recognitions and Awards


Certification Option

• Awards for certification at each level of the

HRS framework.

• Certification review by one of the Marzano

Research Team.


What must a school do?

• Successfully implement each Leading

Indicator within a level.

• Show evidence, using lagging indicators, that

each leading indicator is in fact truly a part of

your school’s operation.

• Random interviews of staff, parents and/or

students as a final check or balance for

certification.


Level 1 School Certifications

• Currently 25 schools


Level 2 School Certifications

• 6 schools currently


District Recognition

• Mid-Del, OK

• 5 of the 7 schools they entered into the

HRS program earned level 1 certification

this past year.


District Award

• Deer Creek, Oklahoma

• Every school in their district achieved level

1 certification this past spring.


Door Prizes

• Tammy and Jan will give away a few door

prizes before we start today.


Transformational Leadership

Dr. Phil Warrick

Associate Vice President

Marzano Research


Leadership

• Life develops leaders naturally over

time.

• Collaboration in leadership can speed

up the process.


Education Leadership

Only those with courage need apply




Finding Your Leadership Compass

Leadership is about action, not position.


Transformational Leaders

• Understand leadership as an

organizational process, not an individual

process.

• Have specific leadership values and habits

that inform their actions as a leader.

• Are reflective in their practices and are

continually learning from mentors.


Critical Habits For

Transformational

Leadership


Have a purpose bigger than self.



A Purpose Bigger Than Self:

Creating the conditions in which others can

be successful.


School Improvement …

Means People Improvement

Effective leaders help those

they lead feel more capable

by___________________.

Leaders of

Learning

(DuFour &

Marzano,

2011)


School Improvement …

Means People Improvement

Effective leaders help those

they lead feel more capable

by helping them become

more capable.

Leaders of

Learning

(DuFour &

Marzano,

2011)


Servant Leadership

Paradox: Through being a servant, a leader

grows his or her influence as a leader.


Servant Leadership Made Easy

• Work in any setting.

• Work with any person or issue.

• Work without complaint.

• Work honestly.

(Heider, The Tao of Leadership: Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching

Adapted for a New Age, 1985)


Have a core set of beliefs

that guide their decisions.



HRS Framework

• Provides the “what” you should think about…

• NOT the specific “how” it has to look in your

school.

• It provides “Defined Autonomy” for school level

leaders.


Wallace Foundation Study

What actions and

behaviors are most

associated with high-

performing principals?

Establish a vision

centered on high

student achievement

which includes

“personal vision.”

What is your personal vision for the school,

department, or team you lead?


Effective Leaders …

Establish a common framework

of research-based strategies for

achieving their identified goals.

Leaders of

Learning

(DuFour &

Marzano, 2011)


Engage others in critical

conversations.



“Critical Conversations”

• Critical doesn’t mean combative….

• If two people always agree…one of them

isn’t necessary.


“Critical Conversations”

• Coaching

• Collaboration

• Consensus

• Clarifying

• Correcting

• Celebrating


When soul enters the conversation,

people will listen.


Critical Conversations

In every instance …

The first step effective leaders

took to improve their systems

was to clarify … what was

non-negotiable.

Referenced in DuFour & Marzano,

Leaders of Learning (2011)

How The

World’s

Most Improved

School Systems

Keep Getting

Better

(Mourshed,

Chijioke, &

Barber, 2010)


Remain centered in times

of crisis.



Sources of Crisis

• Manufactured Crisis

– There is a certain level of dysfunction in all

organizations.

• Change will almost always cause crisis for

someone.

• Human or personal crisis will visit when you

least expect it.


All types of crises have a critical

factor in common.



The Ripple Effect

• The leader’s behavior influences others

through a ripple effect.

• Ripple effects work because people

influence other people.

• People with power cause bigger ripples.


Crisis and Opportunity

Times of turmoil provide leaders with an

opportunity to emerge with a vision.

The greatest opportunities are usually

disguised as tough situations.


Have courage to act when

others do not.



Every now and then you are going to

have to plant your feet, stand firm, and

make a point about what you believe in.

(Riley, The Winner Within: A Life Plan for Team Players, 1994)


High Reliability Organizations

• Continually monitor for errors in critical

factors of their operation.

• Immediately take action to keep those

errors from becoming systemwide

failures.

As referenced in Marzano, Warrick, & Simms,

A Handbook for High Reliability Schools (in press)


Courage

• “Courage is not the absence of fear,

but rather the judgment that

something else is more important

than fear.”

• Ambrose Redmoon


Courage

• Courage is looking fear right in the eye

and saying, “Get the heck out of my way,

I have things to do.”

• Author unknown.•


Develop their own replacements.



The Art of Leadership

Develop more leaders and leave a

legacy of leadership.


Effective Leaders …

Recognize that the ability to

lead is not the private reserve

of a few extraordinary people

or those in particular

positions of authority.

Leaders of

Learning

(DuFour &

Marzano, 2011)


“No single person has all the

knowledge, skills, and talent to

lead a district, improve a school,

or meet all the needs of every

child in his or her classroom.”

Leaders of

Learning

(DuFour &

Marzano, 2011)


Collective leadership has

more of an influence on

learning than any individual

source.

The

Wallace

Study


• The last full measure of a successful

leader….is the number of leaders they

have created in their wake.


Display positivity, hope, and

optimism.



Positivity and Negativity

• Both are powerful.

• Both are contagious.

• Gallup study

– 65 percent of all employees receive no

recognition in the workplace.

(Rath & Clifton, How Full Is Your Bucket?, 2005)


As A Leader….

• Practice “The Art of Possibility”

• Think as a Legacy Builder

• Model a “Can Do” attitude

• Seek first the good in those you lead


Higher Productivity

• Study of workgroups and their positive to

negative interactions ratio.

• Organizations with least 3:1 positive to

negative interactions had significantly

higher productivity.

(Rath & Clifton, How Full Is Your Bucket?, 2005)



Critical Habits = Leadership Compass

• Purpose bigger than self

• Core set of beliefs that guide decisions

• Engage others in critical conversations

• Remain centered in times of crisis

• Have courage to act when others do not

• Develop your own replacements

• Display positivity, hope, and optimism


Thank You

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@pbwarrick

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