The Foundation of a Team…

Kurt Madsen

Fruit. What’s good about it?

• Vitamins

• Hydration

• You grow it

• Healthy

• Taste

• Nice to look at

• Decorations

• Lots of it

What bad???

• You have to shop for it

• You have to poke and smell it

• You might have to peel, chop, ball it

• Its good for you

What is wrong with this guy?!?!?!?

You're in the right place

Yes, I will get to the point

What goes into a good team?

Leadership

MVP(s)

Worker Bees

Marketing Specialists

Lobbyists

• Why is making change so hard?

• Does our staff believe what I am telling them?

• Do have data to back up what I am saying

• Can my team help me?

• Can I find the right people to fill these roles?

• Do other believe what I believe in?

• Will be the last one standing?

Look at yourself as a leader?

What can you do?• Give direction and

suggestions

• Provide time, resources (limited)

• Listen

• Research

• Recruit (People and money)

What don’t you want to do?• Dictate

• Paperwork

• Present and present over and over

• Keep doing things the same

Who can be your IRON MAN?

• Someone great with technology

• Organized

• Workaholic

• Dependable

• Will do anything to win

• Deep down others respect

Captain America• Fearless

• Always does the right thing

• Respected

• Outworks everyone

• Born Leader

Thor and Hulk

Strong, Many tasks at once, But…

Strong, Take on any challenge, But…

Agent Coulson Agent Hill

Specialists

Focus on only one task

Black Widow Hawkeye

Excellent at thinking on their feet

Like to work alone

Like to gather intelligence

Nick Fury There will not be a movie

about him

He is seen only when he wants to be

Leads the Avengers

Truly cares about the greater good

The Avengers go after major issues

Focus on one, use all of their skills to save the planet.

CELL PHONES!

SOAR team did surveys and the most common

response was….

Staff

Students

Parents

SOAR TEAM TAKES ACTION

• Develop Clear Cut Classroom Expectations for Staff and Students.

• Develop Clear Cut Administrative Expectations

• Clear Cut Language

• Define use

• List violation procedures

• Blast our message and concepts to the students. (1st day students heard the message 10 times)

• Whole day class boosters one month later.

Technology Violation

586

372

293

How does the staff respond to all of this?

• I'm too busy to do this. – Iron Man is a classroom teacher

• If the students don’t what to listen, that their issue. – Captain America has the talk

• Students start to use their phone in other ways or places – Hulk and Thor on the issues quick

• SOAR TEAM wants to know the pulse of the students and the staff – Black Widow and Hawkeye

• Need to recruit others – The agents go to work

DATA

2014 Self Assessment• 89% Small number of clearly stated

expectations. 11% partial (100%)

• 71% Feel the administration is actively participating 24% partial

• 84% Have clear expected student behavior and routines 16% partial (100%)

• 42% Classroom option exist to all for teaching to take place when behaviors occur 52% partial

• 72% Student behavior and management practices data are shared 21% partial

• 42% Transitions between instructional and non instructional activities are orderly 58% partial

BOQ Total Scores

• 4/11/2013 84%

• 3/24/2014 88%

• 3/17/2015 91%