Is your team making magic happen when it comes to meeting expected outcomes? Does your team utilize highly effective practices to reach team goals? Do you need to build leadership capacity in your school or district? In this session you will learn how to implement conditions that catapult your co-acting group into a high performing team and build the capacity of team members to lead and implement best practices. Participants will be introduced to research-based team conditions, a metric for diagnosing the strengths and weaknesses of a team and how team coaching through LSI’s Instructional Leadership Institute will support your team in continuous improvement.
| Practice Area | School Improvement |
|---|---|
| Role | School Leader, District Leader |
| Session Topics | Culture & Climate, Leadership Practices, Professional Learning Communities (PLCs), School Improvement, Teacher Leadership Practices |
| Speaker Name | Peggy Voigt, Penny Sell |
| Date | Day 1 – Wed., June 23, 2021 |
| Time | 2:00PM – 3:00PM |
At Learning Sciences International, collective agency is developed through a progression that involves a focus on the individual and collective whys of a team and organization. This requires a shift in the way we see ourselves and one another as we journey through crisis and trauma. Participants will learn more about this progression toward collective agency to fully understand how an investment and commitment within vision and mission may fuel a synergy of compassion between students, teachers, leaders, and the extended school community to afford sustainable, transformational change.
No one can argue that the job of a principal is very complex. Expectations for what constitutes principal effectiveness are extensive, making the process of assessing principals complicated. Principal evaluations should provide information about the most important aspects of principal performance, use multiple sources of data, AND be used within a growth framework to support continuous growth and improvement. Join us as we explore how to use classroom trend data to support principal evaluation and professional growth.
Through self-agency, students are able to move from an environment that is heavily teacher-directed to one where students self-regulate their own learning and behavior. Students develop the mindset that they are capable of controlling their own circumstances, executing plans, and effecting positive change for themselves. In this session we will explore how to create classrooms that restore agency to students through student conversations and rigorous learning while ensuring equitable instruction for all students. Participants will leave this session with practical tips for application in classrooms.
Learn to make your classroom truly student-centered. This means giving students the authority, capacity, and responsibility to own their learning. Developing student ownership builds academic motivation that, in turn, leads to increased student achievement. Walk away with a variety of methods to implement the most effective and efficient, research-based strategic learning practices in curriculum, instruction, assessment, and climate that foster this ownership.
