How to Shift Your Curriculum
You have heard the calls to action and read the endless reports on how the needs of your students have changed. We will help you view these changes through the lens of curriculum. What does it look like? How do you assess it? What about alignment and common core? What does a 21st Century walk-through look like?
Managing Your Online Reputation
Google never forgets! Given how easy it is to create a digital paper trail of yourself online, whether you know it or not, it’s important to audit and keep your reputation in check as fiercely as you do in the physical world. We will help you grasp this crucial digital literacy and share some tricks for approaching your online reputation building from a proactive perspective as well!
Distributive Leadership for Student Success
You can’t shoulder it all and you should stop trying to do so. Being everything to everyone isn’t possible and in fact can be detrimental to progress and success. Distributive Leadership offers a way for administrators to spread duties and projects around to others such as, teacher leaders, allowing them and you to make a more meaningful impact. We will discuss the various models of distributive leadership, its potential for shifting change in your district, and study cases where leaders let go of the reins and what happened when they finally did.
Developing Your Personal Learning Network
Never has it been easier to take control of your professional development and customize it to meet your individual needs. The power is in the personal learning network (PLN), but it’s up to you to cultivate this web of people and resources and make it work for you. We will share the characteristics and power of an effective personal learning network and how easy it is to get started with your own. We will also help you to use your newly form PLN for positive school PR.
Open & Tribal Leadership
People naturally form groups based around their passions and values. Rather than go against this force, why not leverage it to improve your organization? We will discuss the concepts of open and tribal leadership, what they mean to education, and you can use this knowledge to help your faculty grow. We will also help you create your own open leadership plan and thinks about social networking policy shifts that support student achievement.
Web 2.0 Tools for 21st Century Leadership
The leader of the 21st century is connected and engaged in personal learning. Web 2.0 tools don’t have to be a chore and can in fact enhance your personal learning, ease networking, and even make your job easier. Join us as we build a 21st Century leader toolbox that will make you more effective, efficient, and visible.
Developing (or fine tuning) Your EdTech Plan
You may think the most important part of implementing technology is money, but money is no good without adequate planning and a clear vision. In this session we will put you in touch with educational technology experts who will share their strategies for developing an EdTech Plan that works for your school or district.
Bringing Parents On Board
Getting faculty and teachers on board with technology integration is important, but just as crucial in this process is having the support and enthusiasm of parents behind you. We will help you develop strategies for including parents in the discussions around technology and learning in your school systems and why this is so important.
Using the TPACK Model for Instructional Leadership
The TPACK Model captures three forms of knowledge teachers need – Content, Pedagogy, and Technology – and the intersections and interdependence of these knowledge forms. One cannot exist apart from the others and this has great implications for districts moving toward large-scale technology integration. We will discuss this model and how it can be leveraged for instructional leadership during these times of great change.
Systemic Improvement in a Digital Age
You’ve seen small successes happen in classrooms, but how do you help spread these victories across a wider organization to help move your school and district into the 21st century? We will discuss how to scale growth and shift change in a systemic way in our digital age and help turn those small victories into powerful, district-wide improvements.
What’s All This Talk About Common Core?
You may have already heard about the Common Core Standards movement in your region, but if not expect to soon. Many states in the U.S. have said they plan to implement them in the coming years. We will put you in touch with experts around the Common Core Standards and share strategies for implementation should your district or school choose to implement them.
Excellence in Professional Practice
According to ISTE’s NET standard #5 for Administrators, 21st Century leaders promote an environment of professional learning and innovation that empowers educators to enhance student learning through the infusion of contemporary technologies and digital resources. In this session we will discuss how to:
- allocate time, resources, and access to ensure ongoing professional growth in technology fluency and integration.
- facilitate and participate in learning communities that stimulate, nurture and support administrators, faculty, and staff in the study and use of technology.
- promote and model effective communication and collaboration among stakeholders using digital-age tools.
- stay abreast of educational research and emerging trends regarding effective use of technology and encourage evaluation of new technologies for their potential to improve student learning.
Creating a School of Responsible Digital Citizens
One of our many goals as educators is to create learning opportunities and environments for students that help develop those students into responsible citizens ready to inherit our world. In our connective age, creating citizens capable of navigating and harnessing the digital world is paramount. We will discuss the nine aspects of digital citizenship, how it fits into your school culture and ultimately into the lives of your students.
How to Create and Lead Global Connected Learning Communities
Education no longer has to be limited to the walls of your physical space – and nor should it. Connected Learning Communities can be powerful with the right leaders and community development strategies behind it. In this session we will connect you with expert community builders who understand how to blend your school’s PLCs with a global learning community to create a powerful learning strategy for your school.
Do-It-Yourself Professional Development
You don’t have to wait for an inservice to learn something new. Never before has professional and personal development been so accessible and beneficial for educators. We will discuss this new DIY model afforded by the social web and the ways you can hack it to take control of your professional development as an educator.
Creating a Shared 21st Century Vision
Developing strategies in a dark back room is so 20th century. Bring your visioning and mission development into the 21st century through sharing and collaboration with your team. Today’s educators are hungry to be included in processes and decisions that affect them. We will share strategies in this session on how to inspire and facilitate among all stakeholders a shared vision of purposeful change that maximizes use of digital-age resources to meet and exceed learning goals, support effective instructional practice, and maximize performance of district and school leaders.
School Improvement through Action Research
How many great ideas are hiding in the minds of the educators roaming the halls of the schools in your district? Through Action Research teachers are empowered to innovate and help shift change rather than wait for someone farther up the organizational chain to do it for them. We will discuss the elements of Action Research and what it means for school improvement and how you can get started using it in your district.
Creating the 21st Century Learning Environment
The phrase “21st Century” is thrown around often in educational circles, but what does it really mean? What does a 21st Century Learning Environment look like and how can we get there? We will discuss and generate dialogue around this idea and work together to find ideas and methods for creating such a space – one that helps our students become the learners they need to be not just to survive in this new century, but thrive.
