LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
Developed to help school and district leaders strengthen their organizational capacity for student achievement. Our professional learning is focused on building leadership expertise and empowering learning, as reflected through instructional practices and classroom materials.
Leveraging school and district administrators' current and historical experiences to define and achieve short and long-term goals is core to this work. While participating in this program, educators will consider and clarify their moral purpose, and effectively evaluate their role as leaders. They will define actions for personal growth while collaborating with peers as a unified team with shared understanding, knowledge, and tools.
Mission, Vision, Values
Our Mission, Vision, Values workshops emphasize using leaders’ current and historical experiences to develop long-term goals for the future. When participating in this course, educators will consider and clarify their moral purpose and effectively evaluate their role as leaders while they create statements for personal growth. Participants will also learn and apply criteria for defining effective mission and vision statements, re-evaluate their personal and professional values, and align them with their organizational goals. They will explore the circumstances that influence their professional responsibilities and then collaborate to develop and advocate for their mission, vision, and values.
Executive Coaching - Peer Coaching
Monthly sessions centered on a shared problem of practice. Executives will engage in a intellectually inspiring sessions developing a community of practice, resulting in leaders prepared to face, survive, and thrive facing the challenges of leading schools.
Executive Coaching -Individual Coaching
A five-session one-on-one cycle designed to accelerate growth for driven leaders looking to maximize their professional and personal resources. Utilizing a combination of cognitive, instructional, collaborative, consultative, and transformational approaches, motivated leaders will engage with focused and individual learning with an independent school turnaround expert.
The Forecast
The Forecast is a proven system development process in some of the most unexpected school turnaround examples in the last ten years. Especially valuable in forward-thinking districts demanding results without infinite resources, The Forecast is designed to support all executive leaders in developing a system based on the principles of transformational leadership.
THE POWER OF STORY:
Leadership Moves for Comprehensive and Empowering Learning
“The Power of Story: Leadership Moves for Comprehensive and Empowering Learning” is the first in a proprietary three workshop series developed for school and district administrators to support fair, rigorous instruction and leadership.
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In this course, leaders will deepen their understanding and sharpen their perspectives to create an environment where everyone’s “STORY” will be acknowledged, valued, considered, and celebrated. Participants will evaluate their current practices and objectives in fostering a sense of belonging and meaningful learning for both staff and students. Utilizing an asset-based approach, participants will develop leadership strategies and a practical roadmap to support the affirmation of varied stories and enhanced outcomes for all staff and learners.
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Leveraging Our Stories And Our Assets
In this session, participants will collaborate to establish common meanings of important terminology related to promoting a welcoming school environment. They will share their personal narratives and examine how their life experiences connect to essential elements of effective teaching practices. Attendees will assess their current strengths and progress while devising strategies for fostering a supportive learning atmosphere through the theme of "The Power of Story."
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Curating Professional Development and Student Learning Resources
In this session, participants will design a plan for introducing "The Power of Story" within their communities through communication with staff and students. They will practice engaging in meaningful and relevant conversations while developing practices that reflect various experiences and viewpoints, identifying priority actions and resources that will have the greatest impact on student learning outcomes.
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Presenting Our Leadership Roadmap
In this session, participants will create actions that use culturally relevant texts to advance “The Power of Story” and develop a roadmap, including tasks, a timeline, and ownership of work that will create an empowering, welcoming learning community. They will also share and gather feedback on their roadmaps to collaborate, generate new ideas and resources.
BUILDING BRIDGES
This five-module professional learning program for school and district leaders provides a series of interactive, collaborative and reflective modules that empower educators with strategies for development of successful community partnerships. Delivered both virtually and in-person, leaders will participate in activities that develop, enrich, and sustain successful community partner engagement.
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Understanding Community
In this module, participants will learn about internal and external communities, with strategies for cultivating lasting relationships. They will also learn how to build an engaged team that is focused on community empowerment and partnerships.
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Embracing Collaboration
In this module, participants will understand the importance of collaboration, listening, sharing, relationships, elevation of student voice, and communicating with stakeholders to overcome obstacles and create win-win situations.
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Building Capacity
In this module, participants will learn the power of leveraging untapped capacity, student agency, individual contributions and methods that ensure the creation of a positive mental space, building maximum capacity for community partnerships.
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Making Connections
Participants will understand the importance of collaboration, listening, sharing, relationships, elevation of student voice and communicating with stakeholders to overcome obstacles and create win-win situations.
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Action Planning
In this last module, participants will learn how to map out their goals, refine their mission & vision, and identify ambassadors to carry out the work using SMART Goals.