Contextual Literacy Conversation Starter
Submitted: Oct 21, 2022 (12:23 am)
These ideas were collected in the Fall of 2022 and this part of the project is available for your review only.
- What is it about the context in your district/division/region that you feel is essential for people to know to work as a system education leader? – How did you come to learn this in your role?
- How do you support people who are new to role or level understand the new context of their work?
1. *reiterate we are a team (cannot be an 'island')
*political context
*every community within the district is different
*school division foundational beliefs - what our division is all about
*that we are a school division, not a division of schools
2. *Share Lessons learned - emphasize that we are team, discouraging operating in isolation
*leadership team meetings
*supporting new leaders - identifying supports (eg: hired an retired individual to help build capacity in those situations where everyone was new)
*asking - "What do you need from us?"
*honour the passion that new leaders bring to the table - look for opportunities for autonomy
*create space/structures to talk about issues
*distributed leadership structure
*create safe place for leaders to ask questions, propose new ideas