Strategies and Frameworks: Exploring the “Cognitive” Personal Leadership Resources (PLRs) to manage to support School Improvement Planning
Effective school improvement planning requires addressing and mitigating implicit biases while focusing on solving the right problems. Implicit biases, whether racial, cultural, or financial, can significantly impact decision-making processes, and it is essential for educators to recognize and address these biases to ensure fair and equitable outcomes.
Mitigating the impact of Bias can be used to manage human resources, time and money in following ways
Mitigating the Impact of Bias, promotes the ethical standards of teaching practice through Commitment to Students and Student Learning, developing Professional Knowledge, improving professional pedagogy and improving ongoing Professional Learning
Human resource: The school improvement team must take into consideration how their implicit bias may impact the vision, problem-solving and implementation of the school planning. Too often racial and cultural bias can impact decision-making. Sometimes these conversations can lead into financial bias as well. Making deficiet model assumptions about certain groups in the community can have a negative affect on student achievment.
By analyzing and employing some of the effective problem solving strategies, the School Improvement team can use time, human resources and money appropriately. Effecitive problem-solving supports The Ethical Standards for the Teaching Profession. Teachers will reflect goal set and take action using Care, Respect, Trust and Integrity
Strategies and Frameworks: Exploring the “Cognitive” Personal Leadership Resources (PLRs) to manage to support School Improvement Planning
C-3. Mitigate the Impact of Bias
Be open to confronting implicit bias
Address unwanted and negative implicit biases
Recognize our own implicit biases
Understand the nature of bias
C-2. Solve the Right Problem
Reframe the problem
asking “why” five times and taking responses into account with each successive