Validation as Productive Accountability
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Adopting validation practices as a form of accountability helps us know if we are doing what we said we would do. In this video, a school district leader describes her team's validation practices and how they support accountability across the organization.
Reflection Activity
- How do you validate what you said you were going to do?
- How do you validate what your team said they would do?
- What, if any, practices could you incorporate to improve accountability and validate actions?
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so validation by definition is really
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the act of confirming something
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documenting tracking it’s in essence
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saying yep we’re really doing what we
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said that we are going to do one example
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of how we use validation in our district
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is by tracking what we say that we’re
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gonna do I don’t know if your districts
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utilize the 30-60-90 new staff process
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if you don’t I recommend it because I
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think it’s one of the most powerful
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tools that we can use we have a system
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in our district to help keep us on track
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where every time that we have a new
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staff that is hired at any point during
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the year part of that checklist process
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for the onboarding of the new staff is
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to have a shared spreadsheet between all
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the buildings updated and then we’re
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given opportunities during leadership
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team meetings to check in and validate
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that we’re actually doing what we said
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that we are going to do another part of
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that process to help ensure that the
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30-60-90 day routing happens is someone
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schedules reminder calendar appointments
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for principals so I did some support
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staff hiring this summer and I already
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have reminder invitations in my Google
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Calendar to make sure that I remember to
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get that introductory rounding on the
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books we also do regular rounding we’ve
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been talking about that a lot and I
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think one of the most powerful tools for
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us to make sure that that stays a
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hardwired practice is the fact that we
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check in we check in on our progress
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every 60 days so validation is very much
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accountability but I also think that
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it’s an
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horton to stress that we have created as
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a leadership team culture the fact that
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if you’re not on track
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that’s not seen as a judgment and it’s
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okay we validate together we validate
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visibly it’s extremely transparent and
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so for example going from staffs of 40
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people 65 people to a hundred and five
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it was a big shift for me and doing this
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process of validation at multiple points
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during the year really helped keep it
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real for me but it also helped me be
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able to be super transparent when I
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wasn’t meeting my goal and it gave me
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the opportunity to reach out to my peers
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and say hey you’re on track what are you
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doing how do you manage a building of
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your size and stay on track and I
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honestly believe that if we weren’t so
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transparent about valantine validating
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our tactics I might not have the courage
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to be that vulnerable and pick up the
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phone and call and say hey it’s not
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happening for me
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you
