Successful school strengthening and transformation at all levels will be fully explored, outlining eight purposeful ways that today’s educational leaders can positively and significantly impact any school. The eight steps, which led to extremely high levels of various success, are both creative and realistic for any practitioner. Student achievement scores, teacher’s working condition survey results, and other quantitative and qualitative indicators defined the extraordinary stages of school-level achievement. One at-risk school identified as one of the lowest 5% in the entire state, came out of sanctions within 16 months.
Human learning requires actionable feedback studies indicate most teachers receive very little in the normal course of events. This seminar will explore how administrators, coaches, and teachers leaders can create effective systems of Public Practice supporting allstaff in learning how to both give and receive effective feedback via peer observation, learning walks, video feedback, etc as well as fine-tuning PLCs to focus squarely on improved teaching/learning.
Changing behavior is hard. Many times people look like they’re “resisting change” when actually they have no idea how to change. Are we as leaders bringing clarity to what change is expected? Learn how to script a clear path to success. Is there an identity you can use that makes people feel strong and capable to face the challenge ahead? Make the change a matter of identity rather than a matter of consequences. Based on her brothers' #1 New York Times bestseller, Switch: How to Change when Change is Hard, this session will present a framework for changing how people act, even in the toughest circumstances.
