Fit Prep Flashcards
Most humbling experience
Watching “Raising Bertie”
Leading a change
SpEd
9th grade
Two-schools integration (backup)
Overhauling HSLA Communications
Managing a Team
SpEd
9th
Conflict with Manager
SpEd - Andy about goals and priorities for my team, convincing him to make major investments in instructional changes by understanding his perspective and finding the win-win with bureaucracy-busting first
Lehr’s dad’s book
Initiative/ID Business Need/Ownership
SpEd –> only given goal about bureacuracy busting, ID’d need for instructional changes, led drastic change
History course sequence
Creating Performance Review System
Live Attendance Tracker / Open Campus / Attendance Campaign
Onboarding
Overhauling HSLA Communications
Entrepreneurship / Solving a Problem in a Unique Way
SpEd - not just simple teacher training to address gap, overhauling schedule, three different tiers of support unlike any other school
Two-schools integration
Type of Work I Like to Do Best
SpEd –> working with team on solving ambiguous problem, creating strategic plans that drive impact on the ground (and non-consulting, executing them)
Skills Transferable to Consulting
ID’ing root causes and key drivers, creating aligned strategic solutions, selling stakeholders, managing implementation across stakeholders
SpEd
9th
Two-schools integration
School Expansion Strategy
Time I had to convince someone
SpEd –> Andy, to support major instructional and scheduling changes –> SpEd gap data organized by indivdual and using personal pictures to target his relationship-drive personality.
9th - Joel
Two-Schools Integration
History course sequence
Teamwork
How I work on teams:
- Provide structure for the work, ensure we have clear goals for each meeting, clear action steps/owners/deadlines at the end of each meeting.
- Refiner –> ID flaws in plans and ideas, anticipate surprises and complications because I can think multiple steps ahead from various stakeholders’ perspectives.
- Find flaws in explanation or analysis to make them more airtight
- keep the team postive, build positive momentum, give a ton of gratitude and perspective.
SpEd –> de-emphasize my management role, emphasize my role as a refiner, helpign to create high quality implementation plans from Kayla’s pie-in-the-sky ideas
Two-schools integration
Leading WITHOUT authority
- 9th grade turnaround
- Convincing Andy to support SpEd major initiatives
- Two schools integration - Andy and Lisa
- History course sequence
Difficult People
Joel with checking HW
Working with someone I didn’t like
Joel
Time working on a project in which teammates disagreed
9th Grade –> Joel
9th Grade –> Standardizing best practices –> Knew Sherry couldn’t say “do as I do” so we previewed the meeting with Mona to have her recommend changes that all classes would adopt to increase likelihood other teachers who didn’t like Sherry would vote for them.
Two-schools integration (backup)
Turning around a team culture, Getting cooperation from a tough group
9th
Managing team conflict
9th grade –> Emphasize conflict because of people’s philosophical views (some from seminaries, some from private colleges, some from militaristic schools –> led to wildliy inconsistent experiences for kids, and teachers putting personal preferences over the good of the team –> had to get them to redefine their team as a unified group that made shared sacrifices for students, thorugh standardizing in a way that few would have preferred initially and emphasizing the benefits of their collaboration and ajustment.
Sarah and Lindsey
Persuasion with Data
9th Grade
SpEd
History Course Sequence
School Expansion Strategy
Decision with Incomplete Data
History Course Sequence –> I only had two classes’ tests, didn’t know if there was other data that would refute my argument but there was no way of getting it in the timeframe I needed to make a decision. Andy and I had both just started the job, had to make a time sensitive decision. The limited sample I had was alarming (essays, quantitative data on MC) coupled with the syllabus.
School Expansion Strategy
Biggest Risk
History Course Sequence
Decision that was unpopular
History course sequence –> had to convince teachers who were afraid kids would be bored and misbehave, had to convince students it would be different and better and worthwhile, had to explain to parents the rationale and get their buy-in)
Time I had to obtain hard-to-find info
School Expansion Strategy
School startup playbook –> Had to track down info about what went wrong with tech installation so I could improve the process. The operations director had since the left the network, had to find someone who had his personal contact info, have them pass on a note from me appealing for help in order to help kids.
Process Improvement
Live Attendance Tracker / Open Campus / Attendance Campaign
Performance Review System
Overhauling HSLA Communications
SpEd (backup)
Onboarding
Change Management
Live Attendance Tracker / Open Campus / Attendance Campaign
Overhauling HSLA Communications
SpEd
9th
Seeing a problem as an opportunity
Live Attendance Tracker / Open Campus / Attendance Campaign