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Blog - Akribos Professional Associates and Guest Contributors
By: Julie Jungalwala (formerly Wilson), Recognized Thought Leader and Akribos Guest Contributor
The summer professional development season is upon us and I have been enjoying working with several
schools as they continue the work of translating their pedagogical and curricular vision into reality. A
key part of this work is deciding on the work to be done - all while holding it lightly and with a spirit of
iteration. During these conversations, we typically add things to be done - very rarely do we discuss
what we might stop doing.
A helpful exercise I often facilitate is called KEEP/STOP/ START. Try it with yourself and your team and
commit to the changes that emerge :)
You’re still celebrating being named to a new leadership role in your district and
you’re ready to get to work and move your school(s) forward … now is the time to
consider your strengths and weaknesses carefully and to introspectively analyze
your leadership style.
Grant dollars have always been available for K-12, but I would submit that we are seeing a
record amount of grant dollars being announced by multiple funding sources.
What problem or challenge would you solve if you had the money? Those funds are likely
available in the form of a grant.
Team building is an essential component in industry and in education.
Teams offer a systematic structure to address prevent and solve
many of the problems we face in education today that are too difficult
for one person or one group to solve.
School districts around the nation are faced with the challenge of finding sufficient qualified
staff to fill all the positions needed to serve students with disabilities well; therefore, staffing
must be strategic and data-driven in order to deliver needed services effectively and efficiently.
Additionally, staffing represents the largest portion of any school district’s budget therefore
determining staffing needs is a critical function in any school district.
The level of service students with disabilities need should be the driver for special education
staffing and NOT the programs available. Service needs are determined by IEP teams and
measured by minutes of service needed for students to make progress toward meeting their
IEP goals. It is important that district leaders have a means to extract total minutes of service,
as determined in student IEPs, per school in order to determine campus staffing needs and to
ensure student IEPs are implemented with fidelity.
For more than two decades, forward-leaning educators have focused on a set of skills that
for some reason all started with the letter “C”: creativity, critical thinking, communication,
collaboration, etc. I want to add another “C” to that list, one, I would argue, that will be more
important to the world going forward than all the rest. Civility. If we don’t get this one right,
we may not have a framework in which the others will bear fruit.
In our world of uncertainty, especially for superintendents, there is
one thing we can rely on: it is not a matter of if a crisis will occur, but
when. A recent stint as an interim superintendent served as a
reminder that the job has a unique set of challenges and adequate
preparation is essential.
