James P. Spillane - Session Info

Thursday Evening (1.5 - 2 Hours)

'School Leadership & Management: From An Implementation Mindset to Diagnosis & Design'

• Importance of school leadership and management What matters?
• Limits of an implementation mindset
• Adopting a diagnosis and design mindset
• The Need for an Analytical Framework
• A Distributed Perspective on Leadership and Management
• Leader Plus Aspect
• Practice Aspect

Friday

Morning (3 hours)

Diagnosis and Design: The Formal Organization (Adapted from Module 2,
Unit 1 & 2).

• Exploring the Entailments of Diagnosis and Design - the Formal and Informal Organization
• Diagnostic Work: Information Sources & Diagnostic Tools
• Analyzing Formal Organizational Positions
• Analyzing Organizational Routines
• From Diagnosis to Design

Afternoon (3 hours)

Diagnosis and Design: The Lived Organization & Social Networks (Adapted from Module 2, Unit 3).

• Diagnosis from the Bottom-up
• Examining Information Flow in Organizations
• Key advice givers
• Bridging and Bonding
• Exploring consequences of different school organizations for instructional improvement
• Designing and Redesigning the formal organization to structure informal interactions.
• Examining the practice of leading and managing
• Designing and Redesigning formal structure to change practice