How to Work Less, Produce More, and Still Get the Job Done in a Sensible School Week
Thursday, March 22, 7:45—9:45 a.m.
Malachi Pancoast, president, The Breakthrough Coach Management Methodology™ will focus on enabling education administrators to fulfill their roles as instructional leaders, unfettered by the administrivia that takes up time better spent in classrooms with students and teachers. The Breakthrough Coach has developed seven basic principles, embodied in The Breakthrough Coach Management Methodology™, which, when fully implemented, have been shown to:
- Multiply the time instructional leaders spend observing classrooms by 500% or more;
- Decrease administrators’ workloads by twenty hours a week or more;
- Raise student achievement.
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Using Apple’s iPad™ to Maximize Your Effectiveness as a Leader | Thursday, March 22, 7:45 – 9:45 a.m.
Justin Baeder, author of The Essential iPad Guide for Principals and an elementary school principal in Seattle, will help you increase your productivity as a leader by using the iPad™ to manage your time and work. You'll learn how principals use the iPad for walkthroughs, email, documentation, and more. Learn how to fully make the leap into digital organization in this high-impact session. If you have one already, bring your iPad and learn about specific apps that will make a difference in your daily work. LEARN MORE
BrainSMART Leading for Learning: Keys to Increasing Student Achievement | Thurs, March 22, 7:45 – 9:45 a.m.
Donna Wilson and Marcus Conyers will show you a practical, brain-based framework for helping your teachers increase student achievement by connecting the art of teaching to the science of learning. Attendees will receive a complimentary copy of the Administrators Workbook for Increasing Student Achievement: BrainSMART Strategies for Leading and Teaching that puts the NAESP Standards for Leading Learning Communities into practice. LEARN MORE
Assessing Teacher Effectiveness | Friday, March 23, 12:30 – 2:30 p.m.
Charlotte Danielson: In the current educational landscape, it’s essential to assess teacher effectiveness, evaluating not only what teachers do, but the impact they can demonstrate on their students’ learning. This is a highly complex issue, and one on which there is little consensus among educators, measurement experts, or policy-makers. This presentation will provide an overview of the current “scene” with respect to teacher evaluation, weighing the different issues involved. LEARN MORE
Seven Essential Assessment Actions for Local District Leaders | Friday, March 23, 12:30 – 2:30 p.m.
Rick Stiggins will show you how local district, school, and teacher leaders must embrace a new vision of excellence in local assessment and put in place the necessary conditions required to attain that vision in order to meet up to the needs of the fundamental change in social mission for schools that has evolved over the past two decades LEARN MORE
Changes Don’t Come Easy: Lead the Way | Friday, March 23, 12:30 – 2:30 p.m.
Michael Chirichello: Leading a school community toward institutionalizing change is a daunting challenge for principals. During this session, you will: learn how to get beyond the walls of resistance by debunking the most common myths about change; strengthen your capacity to lead your staff through the change process; apply strategies that will create a school culture in which change is sustained over time; design a coherent plan for making transitions as your staff lets go of the old and moves toward new beginnings; understand how to lead with an unflinching commitment to change; and participate in simulations and dynamic learning strategies. You’ll leave knowing that changes don’t come easy but you can lead the way! LEARN MORE
What Extraordinary Principals Do Differently | Friday, March 23, 12:30 – 2:30 p.m.
Jim Grant and Betty Hollas : Raising the academic performance of your students and solving today’s school issues require an extraordinary principal. Grant and Hollas will share dozens of common sense tips and tactics for courageous leaders. These leadership traits, which cover a wide range of topics, are based on their years of experience as working educators. Their practical advice will help lighten your decision making load and help you become one of the extraordinary 20%. LEARN MORE
My Soul Looks Back and Wonder: Empowering African American Males for Success | Thurs, March 22, 7:45 – 9:45 a.m.
Eric Brown will address the cultural disconnect that African American males in the United States suffer from in schools. One of the most difficult tasks facing educators today is our inability to expand our focus beyond intervention and prevention programs to conceptualizing and implementing empowerment processes for African American males. This session will focus on a systematic approach to address the unique needs of African American males and their families using strategies directed at closing the achievement gap. LEARN MORE
Understanding Black Male Learning Styles | Friday, March 23, 12:30 – 2:30 p.m.
Jawanza Kunjufu will explore the current trends facing African American males, such as why so many are in Special Education and remedial reading and what are some gender learning differences and learning styles. He will share some best practices for educating Black males. LEARN MORE |