INSTRUCTIONAL LEADERSHIP ACADEMY
Implement Systems to Impact Student Engagement!
5 Day institute
Required Pre-requisites: Minimum first 2 days of Kagan Cooperative Learning and Cooperative Meetings workshop
The demands of leadership are more challenging in this era than at any time in our past.
Today's leaders are still expected to fulfil traditional job responsibilities (e.g., managing facilities, overseeing budgets, dealing with the public, remote learning).
However, new pressures now face instructional leaders as they strive to close the achievement gap that exists in schools across the country.
This five-day institute has been created for leaders who have embraced the challenge of engaging ALL students. Explore qualities and skills sets of effective leadership. Gain a broader and deeper understanding of the basic principles of cooperative learning. Learn tools that can be used to systematically lead a school or district toward increasing achievement of all children.
Topics that will be addressed during the course of the academy include the following: implementation rubrics, Structure-A-Month Clubs, walk-through observations, parent education, formal support systems, policy development, lesson planning, and barriers to implementation.
Training staff members is a necessary first step. However, implementing systemic measures to ensure teachers successfully implement training in the classroom is critical to school improvement. Learn how to lead your staff so that engagement of all students becomes a reality.
Workshop Highlights
Explore various “systems” needed to provide an infrastructure of support for implementation
Reflect on leadership principles that lead to student achievement
Walk away with tools you can use to enhance implementation efforts
Delve deeper into issues that impact student engagement
Dialogue and network with leaders who are seeking to make every child active in the classroom
Know what to look for when analysing student engagement in the classroom
Become an instructional leader, ready to support your staff on their journey toward engagement of all students
With your attendance, you will receive:
Instructional Leadership Workbook
Instructional Leadership Binder
“In the classroom it is the teacher who ultimately makes the choice of how much students feel included or excluded. When we choose not to make concerted efforts to make our classrooms more inclusive, we have still made a choice. It is a choice to default to traditional individualistic and competitive learning that results in many students feeling disconnected.”
— Miguel Kagan, Kagan USA