Planning Stakeholder Engagement

TITLE & FOCUS
TitlePlanning Stakeholders Engagement (ISLLC #6)
Description: Participants will explore strategies to identifythe various stakeholders within their school or district and consider various “levers” for influencing them to support an education policy. The application focus is that participants will identify a specific policy and applylearned strategies to enlist their support.
NOTES:
  • PD hrs: If you are interested in facilitating this workshop for “Professional Development Hours” through ASU, please contact us at or details (including an Attendance Roster Form and a Participant Feedback Form)
  • FEEDBACK: We would appreciate feedback regarding the quality of this PD Facilitator Kit and/or suggestions for improvement (including participant feedback and/or recommended changes to the Facilitator PowerPoint and/or Facilitator Guide). Please email feedback, comments, or suggestions for improvements to (be sure to include the exact name of the workshop).

TARGETED LEARNING FOR THIS WORKSHOP
NOTE: It is recommended that the objectives, guiding questions, and key vocabulary be posted during the workshop.
Targeted Objectives (What is to be learned? How will it be demonstrated? Using Observable verbs & Learning outcomes with Evidence):
  • Participants will identify stakeholders for a specific initiative or policy and develop strategies to influence them
  • Create a draft planning process that ensures community involvement and appropriate representation of sub-groups.
Guiding Questions (Task analyze the lesson/objectives, consider the sequential steps, and then write questions that guide participant thinking)
  • Who are your stakeholders? (What is each stakeholder’s community influence?)
  • How do you ensure equity of engagement of stakeholders?
Key Vocabulary
Key Words
  • ISLLC workshop, administrator professional development, principal expectations, education stakeholders, Levers
ISLLC Standard (based on Leadership Standards Rubric aligned with ISLLC Performance Expectations, Elements, or Criteria)
  • ISLLC Standard # 6: An education leader promotes the success of every student by understanding, responding to, and influencing the political, social, economic, legal, and cultural context.
  • 6a Exerting Professional Influence
Research-Based Critical Behaviors (Vanderbilt University research identified principal behaviors; VAL-ED workshops)
  • Key Process: Implementing
  • Core Component: NA

Agenda and Segment Titles / Slide Numbers / Time in Minutes / Notes
Introduction and/or Overview of Workshop / 20
Workshop Title: : Planning Strategies for Education’s Many Stakeholders / 50
Conclusion & Developing an Application Focus (or other) / 10
TOTAL TIME: / 80 (1.3 hrs)
Materials, Handouts, Readings, Videos, and other items needed
General Materials (items used throughout whole workshop, and office supply items needed)
  • Facilitator Power Point forPlanning Stakeholder Engagement
  • Facilitator Guide for PlanningStakeholder Engagement
  • Agenda (facilitator makes this on chart paper)
  • Chart Paper and Markers
  • Post-it Notes
  • Highlighters
Handout (list exact title and name of electronic file; add APA format in the Resources section)
  • Application Focus
  • Identifying Stakeholders Worksheet
Readings (list exact title and name of electronic file; add APA format in the Resources section)
  • Identifying and Analyzing Stakeholders and Their Interests

  • Identifying and Analyzing Stakeholders and Their Interests – CHECKLIST

Videos (list exact title and provide URL; add APA format in the Resources section)
  • How do School Promote Equity Among Students?
Other technologies or resources that are used

RESOURCES
Footnotes / Research:
  • Rabinowitz, Phil Identifying and Analyzing Stakeholders and Their Interests (July 2012)
  • New York University (Aug 27, 2009) How do school promote equity among students? (July 2012)
References:
  • Marzano, Robert. J., Debra Pickering, and Jane E. Pollock. Classroom Instruction that Works: Research-based Strategies for Increasing Student Achievement. Alexandria, VA: ASCD, 2003. “Teachers can use these strategies to guide classroom practice in such a way as to maximize the possibility of enhancing student achievement.” (Marzano 3)
  • Community Tool Box (2012):
  • Identifying and Analyzing Stakeholders and Their Interests

  • Identifying and Analyzing Stakeholders and Their Interests – CHECKLIST

Other General Resources: These are items available through ASU for this Workshop (do not repeat items from materials section)
  • KBAD (Know and Being Able to Do) for this workshop
  • Instructional Leadership: Core Components & Key Processes (if workshop is connected to VAL-ED)
  • ISLLC Standards Rubric (if workshop is connected to ISLLC Standards)

Content Experts: Toni Reynolds, retired educational administrator, Leadership Coach; Carliann Dawson, retired educational administrator, Leadership Coach, Educational Consultant, Richard West, practicing middle school principal.
Presentation Notes
Management Considerations, Notes, etc
Management Notes:
  • Directions / Notes relevant to each individual PowerPoint slide are listed in the PowerPoints notes section
  • Ask the superintendent in advance to prepare a welcome and remarks regarding WHY this workshop is important for participants.
  • Check with the superintendent in advance to see if s/he prefers to use established district administrative team norms.
  • Typically, each segment of the workshop begins with a slide entitled “Segment Guiding Questions”
  • Closure for each segment and/or the end of the workshop should be adjusted/adapted to the facilitators style
Notes to Inform Pacing / Adjusting Lesson (FACILITATORS: After studying this workshop, you may make additions to these items)
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Follow-up Strategies for this segment (Coaching Bundle)
Suggestions for Follow-Up:
  • Use the articles with a principal to identify stakeholders for a project or initiative.
  • Consider the various ways to influence the identified stakeholders (slide 13) and determine strategies for influencing each group.
Individual Reflection Questions for Coaching(reflecting on workshop concepts, understandings, options, or application)
  • What is the impact of stakeholder planning on this community?
  • What do we mean by stakeholders and their interests?
  • How do you prevent groupthink and social loafing?
Group Discussion Questions for Online Forum (sharing what he/she is “doing” in his/her school)
  • How will planning resistance be handled?
  • Discuss your communication process needed to pan a new policy.
  • How have you identified stakeholders to participate in this new policy initiative?

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