Capacity Building. In the simplest terms, capacity refers to the ability to deliver results.
In states and communities across the country, policymakers are developing a vital capacity to organize and leverage resources to achieve shared goals on behalf of their clients—students, families and communities. From tiny Tukwila, Washington to sprawling Chicago, Illinois, community schools are bringing together public and private resources to meet the needs of the whole child.
Through partnerships, hundreds of community schools are aligning and integrating strategies to support students, strengthen schools, engage families and help build entire communities where learning can happen. Many more places are using components of the community school strategy, but lack the structural and functional capacities to fully implement a vision where resources are coordinated for student success. Capacity Series Reports & Guides: For more Coalition publications and resources, click here. Social Media Tips for Educators: Building Capacity Among Your Staff. Our second social media tip sheet for educators is now online!
Last Monday, we told you about the fact that we’ve developed social media tip sheets specifically to help state and local education agencies expand online engagement. Our first tip sheet discussed how to develop innovative engagement in a specific community. This week’s tip sheet talks about how to effectively build capacity within a state or local district.
Staff capacity is not a new challenge. State education agencies (SEAs) and local education agencies (LEAs) listed staffing and lack of training as their top two concerns when ED’s Reform Support Network asked them about social media implementation challenges, trumping worries about negative comments and privacy issues. This doesn’t mean, however, that there aren’t solutions. Our latest tip sheet goes into detail about how some state and local districts are solving their capacity challenges. Dorothy Amatucci is a digital engagement strategist at the U.S. Building Teacher Capacity. Sharing. Learning. Leading. Making Sure Your Employees Succeed - Amy Gallo. It’s common knowledge that helping employees set and reach goals is a critical part of every manager’s job.
Employees want to see how their work contributes to larger corporate objectives, and setting the right targets makes this connection explicit for them, and for you, as their manager. Goal-setting is particularly important as a mechanism for providing ongoing and year-end feedback. By establishing and monitoring targets, you can give your employees real-time input on their performance while motivating them to achieve more. What the Experts Say So, how involved should you be in helping employees establish and achieve their goals? Since failure to meet goals can have consequences for you, your employee, and your team, as well as the broader organization, you need to balance your involvement with the employee’s ownership over the process.
Create a plan for success Once a goal is set, ask your employee to explain how he plans to meet it. What about personal goals? Do: Reflection. I sent out the following tweet regarding some “simplified” steps for blog that are crucial to the process: Although blogging comes easy, putting your thoughts out there and writing isn’t so easy for others.
I often get writer’s block and have trouble sharing my thoughts but I push through as a personal challenge to myself. I try to average one post every three to four days. For others, it is tough to start: The nice thing about someone asking about tips on how to get started blogging is that it gave me a topic to blog about. So based on Andrew’s tweet (thanks!) 1. As teachers, we often have DEAR time (Drop Everything And Read), but do we promote the same amount of time for kids to just write about what they want? How the best leaders make everyone smarter. By Liz Wiseman This is an excerpt from TIME Magazine and was originally published September 10, 2014.
The little guys who were on their way up the mountain now have to fight for air. The wearables market is technology’s latest battleground with small upstarts like Pebble and Omate, as well as early entrances from big players like LG, Samsung, and Google. Today, with their announcement of the Apple Watch, Tim Cook officially entered the race and upped the ante with Apple Pay. With Apple in the game, can a young, upstart company like Pebble, maker of the popular Pebble Steel … Read the rest By Elise Foster and Liz Wiseman This is an excerpt from AASA.org and was originally published August, 2014. How does a school system leader tap into the latent talent that sits inside the district? At a time when expectations are rising while funding is plummeting, doing more with less has become standard operating procedure.
By Liz Wiseman. Five Tips to Transform Talent in the Workplace - Let’s talk talent.
I don’t mean Broadway and Hollywood talent; I mean organizational talent. The people at work who lead projects, clash with their colleagues and often give 100% to their organization. I’m giving eight talks in two cities over the next few weeks. The questions I’ve been asked to address in my talks include: