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

  • “Simply amazing! New ways of thinking that will help my district in a new direction for staff and students.”

    —SHAWN ARNOLD, SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS

  • “So relevant! Game changer.”

    —DOTTIE BROWN, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF ELEMENTARY EDUCATION

  • “Insightful, practical, and important. One of the best workshops I have ever attended.”

    —BECKY INCE, PRINCIPAL

  • “This has been a game changer for me. This is exactly what I needed—an authentic focus.”

    -MARCUS TIMMONS, ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL

  • “I have just finished the second day of preschool week with my teachers and I could not let another minute go by without sending you an email to let you know that Cooperative Meetings are LIFE CHANGING!! Being a part of your training at Summer Academy and taking my learning back and implementing Cooperative Meetings has been transformational. Even though it has only been two days, the relationship building that my teachers have done with one another is AMAZING. I am hearing laughter, seeing smiles, and watching lightbulbs go on all across the room. It is so cool to see people sitting in cooperative teams with people that they have never worked with before. Even more rewarding is the opportunity to model structures and then lead teachers in reflection about how they can implement these same activities in their own classrooms with their own students. Thank you, thank you, thank you for giving me the confidence and skills necessary to not only transform my own teaching, but to positively influence the teaching of some already amazing educators who are ready to take it to the next level!”

    -MELISSA BOOTH, ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL FOR CURRICULUM, CALOOSA MIDDLE SCHOOL

“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