| PBM Title | Description |
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| Building Capacity of Parents to Help Their Children Succeed in School - Presenting Student Achievement Data | This module provides a step-by-step approach to presenting your school’s student achievement data to parents and other stakeholders in such as way that allows them to make informed decisions concerning their children and the school.
Topics:
● Gathering Student Achievement Data
● Analyzing Student Achievement Data
● Presenting Student Achievement Data
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| Building Capacity of Parents to Help Their Children Succeed in School - Presenting Student Achievement Data | Providing parents with adequate and timely information promotes good relations with the community and a better prepared student body. In this module you will share a comprehensive list of student achievement data specific to your school and district with the parents of your students.
Topics:
• Educating Parents About Available Data Sources
• Sharing Assessment Data with Individual Parents |
| Communications Series, 3 of 4-Leading a Team to Promote Positive Community Relations | Promote positive community relations between your school and the community by providing staff support structures, establishing positive contact with the community, and improving the school's appearance.
Topics
• Improving staff support structures
• Establishing community contact standards
• Improving the school’s appearance |
| Communications Series, 4 of 4-Teaming With Your Community | This module will help school teams plan and implement activities that engender trust and positive school improvement.
• Understanding your community
• Teaming for better communications
• Teaming to provide greater student learning
• Teaming to serve your community
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| Conducting Effective Meetings to Improve Student Achievement and Organizational Effectiveness | In this module you will learn to conduct effective meetings that will save time and resources by establishing team guidelines and meeting procedures, and conducting a meeting audit to ensure expectations were met and the purpose accomplished. This module represents a value-added leadership skill, which is important to your development as a leader across all roles.
Topics
• Establishing effective meeting procedures
• Documenting effective meeting notes
• Conducting an effective meeting audit |
| Developing a Performer Path Plan-Mapping Exemplary Performances | Mapping the performance skills of an aspiring or developing leader in your school as supported by data using the 8 Roles of School Leaders™ Mastery Maps provides the documentation needed to build a Performer Path Plan that will result in meeting or exceeding performance criteria.
Topics:
• Mapping exemplary performance
• Building a Performer Path Plan |
| Leading a Team Through Group Decision-making | Use techniques such as brainstorming, multi-voting, and reaching consensus to guide the decision-making process.
Topics:
• Overview of the group decision-making process
• Brainstorming
• Multi-voting
• Consensus
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| Leading a Team to Analyze and Display Data Using Quality Tools | Make complex issues simple and easy to understand for stakeholders by using quality tools to analyze and display information. School leaders and their teams can use these three quality tools to inform team decision-making for school improvement.
Topics:
• The Process Flow Chart
• The Check Sheet
• The Pareto Chart
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| Leading a Team to Conduct Action Research | Description:
Action research is a type of formalized problem solving in which practitioners collect and use data to assess student performance and investigate potential solutions to problems. Schools that regularly conduct effective action research demonstrate improved achievement over time.
Topics:
• Selecting an Action Research Topic
• Reviewing Related Literature
• Applying Action Research Methodology
• Analyzing the Research Results Data |
| Leading a Team to Develop Norms and Covenants | Develop appropriate norms and covenants for group discussions and provide the support for mutual commitments and obligations to accomplish the mission, vision, core values, and goals of the organization.
Topics:
• Getting started with norms
• Getting started with covenants
• Leading a team to develop norms and covenants |
| Leading a Team to Develop SMART Goals | Develop SMART goals using performance measures related to identified school improvement initiatives. (Revised 7/08)
Topics:
• Developing SMART Goals
• Checking SMART Goal alignment
• Engaging a team in developing SMART Goals |
| Leading Better-seeking Teams - Orienting and Focusing | After recruiting and selecting team members to be part of the Better Seeking Team (BST), the next critical step is to get the team oriented and focused on the task at hand. This module shows you how to empower your BST to achieve higher levels of performance on improvement initiatives. (Revised 05/10)
Topics:
• Orienting the BST
• Focusing the BST on Team Roles
• Focusing the BST on Professional Learning
• Focusing the BST on Team Assignments |
| Leading Better-seeking Teams - Recruiting and Selecting | Description:
Select and recruit individuals who collaborate successfully as a Better-seeking Team on improvement initiatives to help the school and students achieve their goals. (Revised 05/10)
Topics:
• Defining personal characteristics of the BST
• Identifying team roles and responsibilities of the BST
• Recruiting and selecting a BST |
| Leading Faculty Study Groups Series, 1 of 2 - Getting Started | Engage all teachers in study teams to work in a collaborative and professional manner as they learn from each other to improve teaching and learning.
Topics:
• Getting Organized for FSGs
• The FSG Kick-off Meeting |
| Leading Faculty Study Groups Series, 2 of 2 - Maintaining Momentum | A faculty study group (FSG) is a small group of educators that routinely meets to work on a problem related to the organization's student achievement goals. FSGs study, learn, share, inquire, and investigate new approaches to teaching and learning based on identified needs of the school. Working in FSGs allows teachers to work in a collaborative and professional manner as they learn from each other.
Topics:
• Organizing faculty study groups
• Conducting study group follow-up activities |
| Leading Tactical Meetings | Master the three critical elements of a Weekly Tactical Meeting: Lightning Round - team members summarize primary weekly activities and provide others opportunity for clarification questions; Progress Review - reporting key metrics toward the organizational goals; Real-Time Agenda - based on how the school/system is performing against its goal.
Topics:
• Getting Started with Tactical Meetings
• Leading a Tactical Meeting
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| Leading Team Discussions | Involve all team participants in a natural flow of conversation that leads to a common understanding of the issues for effective discussions. The discussion process includes effective questioning and active listening skills.
Topics:
• Asking Questions
• Active Listening
• Dealing With Counter-productive Behavior
• Leading a Discussion
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| Negotiating for Improved School Effectiveness | When parties can't agree on a solution to a problem or conflict, effective communication becomes critical in order to reach an acceptable agreement. This module presents a negotiation process that you can use to identify strategies that will result in successful interventions.
Topics:
● Know Yourself and Your Opposition (Analyze)
● Prepare to Negotiate (Design)
● Work Toward a Solution (Develop)
● Close the Negotiation (Implement) |
| Planning for Difficult Situations | As a result of many kinds of unexpected and difficult situations, students and/or staff can experience physical problems or threats at school. When these situations occur, the leader must be able to respond quickly in a manner that provides the safest environment possible to all individuals.
Topics:
• Updating your school safety plan
• Preparing school staff and community for emergencies
• Conducting a simulated drill |
| Standards-based Classroom Series, 1 of 2-Leading a Team to Establish a Standards-based Classroom | The Georgia and federal governments expect Georgia school districts to adhere to standards and establish schools whose instruction is structured to support the standards. This module provides key components that will assist you in establishing a standards-based classroom.
Topics:
• Developing Curriculum Standards
• Assessing a Standards-based Classroom
• Designing Instruction for a Standards-based Classroom |
| Using Leader Stories to Build Shared Vision and Commitment | Successfully influence various audiences in their organizations by developing a series of leadership stories. In this module, you will learn how to develop and tell leadership stories such as: Who I Am, Who We Are, and The Future Story. Leadership Stories drive school improvement initiatives.
Topics:
• Creating Your Who I Am Story
• Creating Your Who We Are Story
• Creating Your Future Story
• Sharing Your Leader Stories |
| Writing With Impact for Effective Communication | Effective communication skills form the foundation for successful school management. These skills are so basic that often we overlook their significance. This module focuses on ways to help you fine-tune and master this essential craft. You will learn how to analyze, draft, and finalize effective memos and business letters used for school communications.
Topics:
• Writing Memos that Matter
• Writing Letters that Mean Business
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