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Reopening School with SEL
Reopening School with SEL
The challenges of the past year have led school communities to refocus on relationships, equity, and the academic, social, and emotional development and overall well-being of all students and adults. This session will guide participants through a process for systemically implementing social and emotional learning (SEL), using the CASEL Guide to School-wide SEL (schoolguide.casel.org) as a key resource. Participants will explore tools to support their work in partnering with staff, students, families, and communities to learn from experiences of the past year, focus on adult connections and self-care, and maintain safe, supportive, and equitable learning environments that promote SEL for all students.
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The Leadership Treadmill: Why Am I Going Nowhere Fast?
The Leadership Treadmill: Why Am I Going Nowhere Fast?
Are you tired of feeling the weight of the world on your shoulders? Or that you are working as hard as you can but aren’t seeing the results you want? If so, join us and explore a simple, concrete system that will move you and your team to visible results. You’ll learn how to create momentum through shared leadership and get quick wins by taking focused actions and measuring results in short cycles.
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Evaluation by Design: Flexibility and Validity
Evaluation by Design: Flexibility and Validity
If your district has ever wanted to design an evaluation model but wanted to avoid the pitfalls that come along with it, this is a don’t miss a session. We will preview the brand new, yet research-validated, Marzano model that allows you to build your own teacher evaluation!
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Accelerating Grading Reform During and After the Pandemic
Accelerating Grading Reform During and After the Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has provided opportunities to refresh and recharge grading and reporting reform. This session will address the why and what of grading practices that should be accelerated to support core instruction, equity, and student success.Watch Ken O’Connor’s promo video for BE2021
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Transforming Early Literacy By Developing a Coaching Mindset
Transforming Early Literacy By Developing a Coaching Mindset
Literacy experts and best-selling authors Jacy Ippolito and Rita Bean share their insights on developing a coaching mindset to create a collaborative learning environment that transforms instruction. Hear how Rita and Jacy worked with elementary schools in Delaware this spring to build expertise in early literacy while supporting teachers and leaders in creating a coaching culture.
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What to Keep and What to Leave Behind: Lessons Learned from 2020 Teacher Evaluations
What to Keep and What to Leave Behind: Lessons Learned from 2020 Teacher Evaluations
Put your 20/20 lenses on (the glasses and the year) and let’s analyze the takeaways from teacher evaluation in a year of uncertainty.
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The Leadership Teams We Want: How we build them, how we launch them and how we coach them
The Leadership Teams We Want: How we build them, how we launch them and how we coach them
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.
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How to Restore Agency for Students in our Classrooms
How to Restore Agency for Students in our Classrooms
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.
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Utilize Accountable Talk to Accelerate Core Instruction
Utilize Accountable Talk to Accelerate Core Instruction
Get your students thinking and talking like never before. Use templates to gain insight into student thinking to monitor and modify learning. Strengthen student accountability in both face-to-face and virtual instruction with a variety of student editable flexible templates for use in various subject areas. Leave with student-ready templates.
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Equity-Based Instructional Leadership & Professional Learning
Equity-Based Instructional Leadership & Professional Learning
An equity-based mindset and toolkit is essential for leading diverse schools. Discover how to create your vision for equity in your school community and analyze educators’ practices under an anti-bias framework. Walk away with ideas to implement equity-based strategies for your professional learning communities.
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Developing Instructional Leadership
Developing Instructional Leadership
Of all the hats the principal wears, the most vital in terms of increasing academic achievement is that of instructional leader. An instructional leader focuses on the growth of the teacher. An instructional leader respects the teacher as a learner and honors their individual learning process. Learn how to implement school-wide initiatives focused on student achievement and practical feedback and reflection strategies that support professional growth. Interact with research-based actions and practices in curriculum, instruction, assessment, and climate that foster teacher growth and increase student achievement. Learn how to differentiate the teacher’s learning by strategically offering those practices that most effectively and efficiently support distinct styles of adult learning
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Conative Skills + Organizing Students = A Match Made in Heaven!
Conative Skills + Organizing Students = A Match Made in Heaven!
Focusing on the Social Part of SEL Participants will have the opportunity to identify the seven Conative Skills and explore the benefits of teaching them as part of the Condition for Learning, Organizing Students to Interact with Content. Join this session to get great ideas for implementing Conative Skills such as Cultivating a Growth Mindset, Avoiding Negative Thinking, Developing Resiliency, and Taking Various Perspectives on an Issue into your daily lessons. These skills are easily taught through Academic Teaming lessons as well. If you are looking for great ideas to incorporate the Social aspect of Social and Emotional Learning into your lessons as you Organize Students to Interact with Content, this is the session for you!