Strategies and Frameworks: Exploring the “Cognitive” Personal Leadership Resources (PLRs) to manage to support School Improvement Planning

Root Cause Analysis (RCA)

asking “why” five times and taking responses into account with each successive

Reframe the problem

Understand the nature of bias

Recognize our own implicit biases

Address unwanted and negative implicit biases

Be open to confronting implicit bias

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

Mitigating the impact of Bias can be used to manage human resources, time and money in following ways

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.

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