Education, leadership & succession planning dec2018

EDUCATION, LEADERSHIP &
SUCCESSION PLANNING
JOINT COMMITTEE FOR TERTIARY
EDUCATION
“EDUCATION 4.0 – EDUCATION
LEADERSHIP AND TECHNOLOGY SUMMIT
2018”
HOLIDAY INN, MONTEGO BAY
DR. LEAHCIM SEMAJ
DECEMBER 11, 2018

Dr. Leahcim Semaj
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AoB Video

WHERE ARE WE NOW?
•Only 40% of the eligible demographic
sit CSEC exams
•Only 22% pass 5 or more subjects
•66% receiving either “none or less
than 2 subjects”
• http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/opinion/reim
agining-the-education-
of_the_future_in_the_Caribbean_103872?profile
=1096
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WHERE ARE WE NOW?
•Subjects such as
music, agricultural
science, physical
education and sports
are virtually ignored,
thereby reflecting a
dysfunctional
education system
which is disconnected
from the society and
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WHERE ARE WE NOW?
• The result of this
disconnect is that the
“immense creativity that
has made Caribbean
culture a world influence
[through sports, music
and other innovations] is
being crippled...”
• (Didacus Jules, director general of the
Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States
and former registrar and chief executive
officer of the Caribbean Examinations
Council)

REIMAGINING AND RE-
ENGINEERING
• Jules suggested that a radical re-engineering of
education requires three critical shifts.
• First, that the education system becomes
aligned to the requirements for a sustainable
economy.
• …this means paying attention to and providing even more
funding for the critical area of early childhood education as a
means of securing a solid foundation for children in that critical
period of development.
• It also involves repositioning the curriculum to focus more on
the important drivers of a sustainable economy, for example,
ensuring food security and water conservation through
responsiveness to climate change, as well as creating niche

REIMAGINING AND RE-ENGINEERING
• Second, that there should be greater involvement of the family
in the education process.
• From our viewpoint, parents are critical stakeholders in the children's
success at school, and more attention needs to be paid to how best to
support parents to do this.
• Third, is the strengthening of the socio-political framework of
participatory democracy, such that “rights are respected,
responsibilities accepted, and accountability is demanded”.
• http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/opinion/reimagining-the-education-
of_the_future_in_the_Caribbean_103872?profile=1096
• Dr Canute Thompson is head of the Caribbean Centre for Educational Planning, lecturer in the School of Education, and co-
founder and chief consultant for the Caribbean Leadership Re-Imagination Initiative, at The University of the West Indies, Mona.
• Dr Yewande Lewis-Fokum is a Harvard graduate and Fulbright scholar and lecturer in language and literacy in the School of

WE HAVE A BIG
PROBLEM

Chapter #1
The Psychological & Spiritual
Significance of Work
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We All Have 2 Basic Needs:
1. Meaningful & Rewarding
Work.
2. Sustained & Reciprocated
Intimacy.
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+10 WORK
+10 INTIMACY
-10
-10
OPTIMAL
DEVELOPMENT

Work
“How we pay rent for
occupying space on earth”.

Your Talents
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Service to Others

Work for what we get.
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The Parable of The Talents - Matt 25:14-30
• 14 “For it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his
servants and entrusted to them his property.
• 15 To one he gave 5 talents, to another 2, to another one, to each
according to his ability. Then he went away.
• 16 He who had received the five talents went at once and traded with
them, and he made five talents more.
• 17 So also he who had the two talents made two talents more.
• 18 But he who had received the one talent went and dug in the
ground and hid his master's money.

• 19 Now after a long time the master of those servants
came and settled accounts with them.
• 20 And he who had received the five talents came forward,
bringing five talents more, saying, ‘Master, you delivered
to me five talents; here, I have made five talents more.’
• 21 His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful
servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you
over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’

• 22 And he also who had the two talents came forward, saying,
‘Master, you delivered to me two talents; here, I have made two
talents more.’
• 23 His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You
have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into
the joy of your master.’
• 24 He also who had received the one talent came forward, saying,
‘Master, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you did not
sow, and gathering where you scattered no seed,
• 25 so I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground.
Here, you have what is yours.’

• 26 But his master answered him, ‘You wicked and slothful servant! You
knew that I reap where I have not sown and gather where I scattered no
seed?
• 27 Then you ought to have invested my money with the bankers, and at
my coming I should have received what was my own with interest.
• 28 So take the talent from him and give it to him who has the ten talents.
• 29 For to everyone who has will more be given, and he will have an
abundance. But from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken
away.
• 30 And cast the worthless servant into the outer darkness. In that
place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

Drink from your own well.
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Work & Food
• If any refused to work for
their food, they should be
refused support by others
• He who is able to work, and
unwilling,
• should not be fed
• 2 Thessalonians 3:10
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The Creation Story
 God made man and placed him in
the garden of Eden “to dress it
and keep it” (Gen 2:15)
 Adam given work to name all the
animals (Gen 2:19)
 Then God provided him with a
woman (Gen 2: 21-24)

You Are Not Ready to Be A…
A Parent
Until you
are able to
Pay Rent

 If any refused to work for
their food, they should be
refused support by others
 He who is able to work, and
unwilling,
 should not be fed
▪ 2 Thessalonians 3:10
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Operates the
world’s largest
employment
agency

The Road Ahead
DENY YOUTH ACCESS TO PRODUCTIVE MEANS
USE
REPRODUCTIVE
MEANS
USE
DESTRUCTIVE
MEANS
PREGNANCY
BABY MOTHER
PARASITES
PREDATORS

Western World’s Biggest Social &
Economic Problem
Male
Young
Uneducated
Unmarried
Unemployed
Unemployable
The Economist, Sept 28, 1996

CHILD
ADOLESCENT
ADULT
Boys and Girls
Males and Females
Men and Women
WORK
INTIMACY
PARENTING
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The Law of “Dharma” or Purpose in Life
•There are 3 components of Law of
Dharma:
•1) Each of us is here to discover our true
and higher self.
•We must find out for our self that inside us is
a god or goddess in embryo that wants to be
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The Law of “Dharma” or Purpose in Life
•2) Express our Unique Talents.
• This expression of talent takes us into timeless awareness
which is certainly will make you happy and joyful.
•3) Service to Humanity.
• Ask yourself “How can I help all those that I come into contact
with?
• When you combine the ability to express your unique talent
with service to humanity, then you make full use of the Law of
Dharma.

What Day Are
You?

To Raise the (spiritually) dead
Heal the (Mentally and Physically) sick
Teach those who did not learn
Remind those who have forgotten.
So that they may become
Wiser, Healthier, Wealthier and Happier
in Body, Mind and Spirit

Develop Job Creation Skills
•What is Your (Dharma) Passion?
• What Desire can you fulfill Or Problems you can solve?
•Who is willing to Pay?
•What can you deliver?
a product - a skill - a service?
•Go out and find clients or customers

The Law of Karma:
What do I want to give?
•Every action generates a force of energy that returns
to us in like kind.
•Choosing actions that bring happiness and success to
others ensures the flow of happiness and success to
you.
• The world? my country? my family? my work? my
friends?

1. Dharma
2. Profession
3. Vocation
4. Laborer

Chapter #2
TRAITS REQUIRED FOR SUCCESS

8 Traits You Need to Be
Successful
(Your IQ Isn't One of Them)
http://www.success.com/article/8-traits-you-need-to-be-successful-your-iq-isnt-one-of-them

Personality Traits
•more accurate
predictors of
success than actual
intelligence levels.

Intelligence may be overrated
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A a natural touch for
acquiring and making sense
of knowledge is
undoubtedly a valuable
trait in our professional and
personal lives,
research has shown that
there are far more
important factors at play
when it comes to
succeeding at our goals and
duties.

Carnegie Institute of Technology
• people skills rather than raw brain power.
85% of financial success can be attributed to
• people prefer to do business with those they trust.
It makes sense

Dr. Arthur
E. Poropat
identified 5 personality
traits which can be
shown to improve test
results.
(Taking intelligence
levels into account)
Studying is of course
recommended, but
conscientiousness,
openness,
agreeableness,
extraversion
and emotional
stability
can also pay off with
higher grades.

In the
workplace,
Team-thinking and
personal
development
should be key
priorities to
acquiring
technical
knowledge.
Emotional awareness
toward yourself, your
colleagues and your
clients
sits at the core
of an effective
professional
development
strategy.

For This You
Need to do
2 things:
Know
Know others.
• Listen for their ideas and needs, work with these
in mind even if you disagree with them,
• let your teammates and your customers see your
passion.
Know
Know yourself.
• Manage your emotions, identify potential areas
of improvement through training or research,
• take failure or mistakes as lessons and aim to
grow.

Soft Skills vs. Hard Skills
www.AboveorBeyondJM
• “Soft skills" are
fundamental to
thriving in the
business world.
• An open mind is
endlessly more
valuable than one
rigidly stuffed with
facts and unable to
adapt to
circumstances.
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The Future
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8 THINGS

1/2

3/4

5/6

7/8

Chapter
#3
The Future of Education

THE FUTURE
OF
EDUCATION

THE FUTURE IS NOW!
•www.LearningHub.online
• We have a website for students with
videos, notes, quizzes, online tutors
etc.
• Subscribers get all the learning
materials free.
• Pay to get access to quizzes and tutors.
• We have a website for teachers with
videos, notes, quizzes, online
chatrooms
• teachers can communicate with each
other
Meeting with Denis
O’Brien,
Founder & Owner of
Digicel.
(November 2016)

THE FUTURE IS NOW!
•www.LearningHub.online
• We have a website for students with
videos, notes, quizzes, online tutors
etc.
• Subscribers get all the learning materials
free.
• Pay to get access to quizzes and tutors.
• We have a website for teachers with
videos, notes, quizzes, online
chatrooms
• teachers can communicate with each other
• a live help desk so teachers can get
assistance.

FROM TRADITIONAL TO
TRANSFORMATIONAL

E-LEARNING VS. FACE-TO-
FACE

All You Need is Already Online
http://www.skilledup.com/

The Future of Education
www.AboveorBeyondJM
• The
OpenCourseware
Movement
• took hold in 2001
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Open Course Ware

The Khan
Academy
Started in
2008
Motto: A free, world-class
education for anyone,
anywhere.
Produces short lessons in
the form of YouTube videos
Since 2015, the
official
SAT practicing
website.
reports says that
studying for the SAT
for 20 hours on Khan
Academy associated
with 115-point
average score
increase

Open
Courseware
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FREE
All of these courses are
How do colleges, that charge
steep tuitions, compete with
“free”?
The OpenCourseware Movement
has shown , courses are becoming
a commodity
Teachers only need to teach once,
record it, then move on to
another topic or something else

In the middle
of all this
We are transitioning from
a teaching model to a
learning model.
Why do we need to wait for a
teacher to take the stage in the
front of the room when we can
learn whatever is of interest to us
at any moment?

Teaching requires experts
Learning only
requires coaches
With all of the assets in
place, we are moving
quickly into the new
frontier of a teacherless
education system

The Critical Skills Now Required For
The World of Work

Social intelligence:
TRUST COLLABORATION TEAMWORK

Agile thinking:
Today uncertainty rules the
market, changes are
abrupt, yesterday’s market
conditions are different to
today’s.
Creative thinking, the
ability to innovate, deal
with complexity,
ambiguity, and paradoxes,
prepare for more than one
scenario

Human-
machine
Collaboration
And Co-
dependence:
Digital and technology skills
are not only nice to have,
they are a necessity.
workplace automation and
human-machine
dependence
a workplace where human-
machine collaboration and
co-dependence is the norm.

Cross-
cultural
skills:
Cross-cultural
understanding and
communication
global operating
skills such as
the ability to
manage diverse
employees
understanding
international
markets
ability to work in
multiple overseas
locations
foreign language
skills
cultural sensitivity
will be increasingly
in demand over the
next 5 to 10 years.

The innovative,
entrepreneurial mindset:
• The ability to innovate
• “self-starter”
• “risk-taker”
• “visionary”
• someone who “spots opportunity”
• You don't need to own a business to be an
entrepreneur,
• but you do need the entrepreneurial
mindset to be successful in business.”

Leadership skills:
• Businesses today operate in 2 time
frames,
• the immediate and the very long
term,
• the ability to manage contradictions
will be critical.
• This requires finding new ways of
working together.
• Major barrier to engagement is trust
• must be central to the thinking of
future leaders.

Chapter #4
Educational Leadership

We Are in Changing Times:
Change Can Not be Managed,
Change Must Be Led

Made or Born?
• There is an age-old question of whether leaders are made or born.
• I think that has been answered a long time ago:
Leaders are made, not born.
• Based on my more than 30 years of working with CEOs and Senior
Executives and conducting seminars and workshops on leadership, I am
convinced that –
•Leadership can’t be taught, but it can be learned.

On Becoming A Leader

Managers have employees;
Leaders have followers.

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MANAGER vs. LEADER
• ADMINISTRATE
• RELY ON CONTROL
• SHORT-TERM VIEW
• EYE THE BOTTOM LINE
• ACCEPT STATUS QUO
• FOCUS ON STRUCTURE
• COMMAND
• IMITATE
• DO THINGS RIGHT
• MANAGE PEOPLE
• INNOVATE
• INSPIRE TRUST
• LONG-RANGE PERSPECTIVE
• EYE THE HORIZON
• CHALLENGE STATUS QUO
• FOCUS ON PEOPLE
• COMMUNICATE
• ORIGINATE
• DO THE RIGHT THING
• LEAD PEOPLE
• Warren Bennis, Managing People is like Herding
Cats, 1997

Linear Change Paradigm Shift
•Manager LEADER
• Do the next right thing Lead organization to a place it
wouldn't go by itself
• "Now" decision making "FUTURE“ DECISION-MAKING
• Best today decision How today's choices play out
in vision, mission, values
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John Quincy Adams
•“If your actions
inspire others to
dream more, learn
more, do more and
become more, you
are a leader.”

Leadership
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What Kind Of Leader Are You?
•Manley *PJ
•Seaga *Portia
•Bruce *Andrew
•Castro *Putin
•Obama *Trump

98
Like everyone else,
LEADERS ARE NERVOUS
about learning new skills, behaviours, and working relationships
 Unlike everyone else,
LEADERS HAVE TO GO FIRST

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LEADERSHIP IS THE HIGHEST
COMPONENT OF MANAGEMENT
a) Provides vision and
direction, values and
purposes
b) Inspire people to
work together with
common vision and
purpose

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Why Leadership

“With Good Leadership Any Problem
Can Be Solved”
•William R. "Bill" Rhodes
•Banker to the World
• Former senior international officer and senior
vice chairman of Citigroup and Citibank
• Served in various senior executive positions at
Citi from 1957 until his retirement from
Citigroup on April 30, 2010
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WHAT IS
EDUCATIONA
L
LEADERSHIP?
Educational leadership is a
collaborate process that unites the
talents and forces of teachers,
students and parents.
The goal of educational leadership is
to improve the quality of education
and the education system itself.
https://www.topeducationdegrees.org/faq/what-is-
educational-leadership/

WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF EDUCATIONAL
LEADERSHIP?
To ensure
academic
success through
process,
material and
training
improvements.
01
This is mainly
accomplished through
collaboration with
different individuals,
such as educators,
parents, students,
public policy makers
and the public.
02
From a business perspective,
educational leadership is a
form of academic
management and quality
control.
03

THE KEY QUALITIES OF EDUCATIONAL
LEADERSHIP
• First, educational leadership creates a vision of
academic success for all students.
• This is important because there has always been a historical
gap between students on different socio-economical levels
and high and low achieving students.
• Second, educational leadership strives to maintain a
safe and receptive learning environment.
• That is, a healthy school environment is key to providing
comfortable, orderly and structured classrooms.

THE KEY QUALITIES OF EDUCATIONAL
LEADERSHIP
• Third, educational leadership delegates responsibility
to others.
• This means that teachers, parents and even students are
empowered to take responsibility and accept accountability.
• Fourth, instructional methods and curriculum content
must be continually improved.
• Fifth, the field of education must borrow and adapt
modern management tools, processes and techniques.

HOW DO TEACHERS CONTRIBUTE
TO EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP?
• teachers are the foundation of educational leadership.
• They not only manage students, but also act as leaders among
their colleagues.
• Specifically, teachers are resource providers that help students
and other teachers find online and community resources.
• They provide valuable classroom management and teaching
strategies to other teachers.
• They also provide educational leaders with constructive
feedback for curriculum improvements.

HOW TO BECOME AN EDUCATIONAL
LEADER?
Every academic
level has
educational
leadership
career
opportunities.
01
Anyone
interested in
becoming an
educational
leader should
have on-hands
teaching
02
Coursework will include
classes that cover law,
finance, professional
development and
strategic planning.
03

DISTRIBUTIVE LEADERSHIP

GREAT LEADERSHIP IS AT THE HEART
OF EVERY HIGH-QUALITY SCHOOL
SYSTEM
• Within schools, leadership is most effective when it’s
distributed among a team of individuals with different
skillsets and experiences but a shared mission to spark and
sustain a school-wide culture of learning and improved
outcomes for students.
• These types of instructional leadership teams can drive
positive change throughout a school.
• http://k12education.gatesfoundation.org/blog/4-key-things-know-
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1) WITHIN A SCHOOL, DISTRIBUTED LEADERSHIP
(DL) OFTEN TAKES THE FORM OF AN
INSTRUCTIONAL LEADERSHIP TEAM.
•This team represents the larger school
community, and each team member is
involved because of their content and
pedagogical expertise rather than their
years of experience or formal leadership
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2) DL TEAMS TAKE ON SEVERAL
IMPORTANT TASKS IN A SCHOOL:
• Supporting the development of high-quality teaching by
leading content-specific, grade-level collaborative time;
• Engaging teachers in cycles of observation, feedback, and
reflection to adapt and refine their instruction to meet their students’
needs;
• Teaching and modeling how to apply a continuous improvement
mindset to teaching, learning, and leading; and
• Tracking and monitoring student level data to ensure school-wide
student progress;
• Providing other relevant job-embedded professional learning
supports.

3) PRINCIPALS AND ASSISTANT PRINCIPALS ARE
CRITICAL TO ENABLING AND SUSTAINING THE WORK
OF DL TEAMS.
•They do this by building the leadership
capacity in the school and by creating the
conditions where expertise can be spread
across the school so that everyone can
work individually and collectively to
improve outcomes for students. 12/10/2018WWW.ABOVEORBEYONDJM 116

4) DISTRIBUTED LEADERSHIP IS NOT ABOUT
DIVIDING TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES AMONG
INDIVIDUALS.
•Instead, DL is concerned with the interactions
among individuals (leaders and those whom
they lead) to drive instructional improvement
and improved student outcomes through the
development of high-quality teaching and a
culture where all students can thrive.

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#5
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SUCCESSION PLANNING
•The principal has a key role in guiding and
supporting others to step up as leaders.
•Giving opportunities for others to lead is an
important part of succession planning for the
principal’s role.
• http://www.educationalleaders.govt.nz/Leadership-development/Professional-
information/Succession-planning 12/10/2018WWW.ABOVEORBEYONDJM 119

QUESTIONS TO GUIDE SUCCESSION
PLANNING
• How is your school (board and staff) responding to the current research and
support for distributed leadership?
• What strategies and systems does the school have in place to develop internal
leadership?
• How does your school provide a balance between preserving the current
strengths that it has in terms of leadership, and remaining responsive to
change and new directions?
• How does your school prepare for induction of new leaders into the school,
so that they can both ‘learn about how things are’, and present their own
visions for the school’s future development?
• What plans do you have during a time of succession to balance these two
competing demands?
• (Andy Hargreaves)

RISING STARS AND SITTING TENANTS - TONY
HAYES
• MANY SENIOR MANAGERS ARE RELUCTANT TO TAKE UP THE ROLE OF
PRINCIPAL.
•The study, conducted in London, reveals that only 25%
of deputy principals go on to apply for and get
principals’ positions.
•Some are personal reasons such as health or age.
• However other reasons are to do with the lack of positive
mentoring supplied by school principals.

SOME KEY FACTORS THAT ARE MOST LIKELY TO CONTRIBUTE TO DEPUTIES AND
OTHER SENIOR MANAGERS GOING ON TO SUCCESSFUL PRINCIPALSHIPS.
• The development of a close and productive relationship between
the principal and other senior managers in the school where they
are able to develop and share their strengths.
• In particular their ability to discuss leadership issues as a team.
• Opportunities for deputies to exercise leadership across the whole
school, and not just do routine management tasks.
• In this way the deputies not only gain genuine leadership experience, but are also
seen by other members of the school community as leaders.
• The deputies or other senior managers actually have the ambition
or desire to seek higher leadership. 12/10/2018WWW.ABOVEORBEYONDJM 122

IN SUMMARY,
• Those in senior management need to see their deputy roles
as short term (a maximum of five years).
• The value for a principal in being seen as a successful
mentor for rising stars in the profession.
• Not only does it give principals stronger colleague-ship with
the senior team members, it is also a way in which they can
make a contribution to the profession.

THE RACE WE CAN’T AFFORD TO
LOSE.

Dr. Leahcim Semaj

Education, leadership & succession planning dec2018

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