This workshop deals with instructional leadership using the Sergiovanni model and looks at how the instructional leader can transform a school culture from a culture of teaching to a culture of learning using PLCs.

1. Keith Pruitt, Ed. S. Words of Wisdom Educational Consulting www.woweducationalconsulting.com Join us on facebook

2. No stream rises higher than its source. Whatever man might build could never express or reflect more than who he was. --Frank Lloyd Wright From Staff Development: Practices that Promote Leadership in Learning Communities , Sally Zepeda (1999)

3. You’ll grow up and go to school…

6. Question for Consideration: How much impact does the supervisor’s management style and assumptions about people have on the overall success of the school? Please explain.

8. Sergiovanni, T. J. and Starratt, R. J. (2002) Supervision: A Redefinition . Boston: McGraw Hill.

11. Now class I want you to just listen to me and I am going to tell you how to catch fish. You could train in this fashion, but it isn’t the most effective method.

13. Let me show you how I fish, then we will work on it together.

15. Turn and Talk: How does looking at teaching as a vocation change professional development to renewal? Francis S. Bolin (1987). Reassessment and Renewal in Teaching . Teacher Renewal Professional Issues, Personal Choices . Bolin and Falk, eds. New York: Teachers College Press, p.11

17. Dennis Sparks and Stephanie Hirch, “Strengthening Professional Development A National Study,” Education Week , May 24, 2000, p. 45.

19. Professional Learning Communities Moving from a Culture of teaching to a Culture of learning

23. Taken from On Common Ground (2005). Masters of Motivation , Jonathon Saphier, p. 97.