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Practical insights for today's administrators and
leaders!
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San Diego, CA Conference
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Michael Fullan
Achieving District Wide Reform (keynote)
Achieving Large Scale Reform
This session will focus on strategies necessary for
whole system reform across the three levels of
school-community/district/state. Actual cases
and results will be presented along with lessons
learned and next steps.
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Michael Fullan
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Terry Deal
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Terry Deal
Waking the Warrior and Wizard Within
(preconference)
Traditional ideas of leadership are adequate for
identifying and solving problems in today’s
organizations. As the late Peter Drucker
observed: “Everything you learned is wrong.”
This presentation will highlight the political and
symbolic roles of leaders. As a warrior, how
can you wage and win important battles. As a
wizard, how can you imbue an organization with
magic and meaning. Striking a balance
between power and passion is key to success in
organizations across the board: business,
healthcare, education, non-profit and
military.
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Roland Barth
Building a Professional Learning Community
The relationships among adults within a school
have more to do with the character and the quality
of a school and with the accomplishments of the
students than any other factor. In this
interactive conversation, participants will learn
to consider the ways that teachers are with one
another at school. Participants will
consider independent, adversarial, congenial, and
collegial forms of interaction. Special
attention will be devoted to the central elements
of a healthy, collegial culture and to what school
leaders can do to establish a professional
learning community within their schools.
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Roland Barth
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Carolyn Downey
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Carolyn Downey
The Three-Minute Walk-Through with
Reflective Inquiry
The heart of the informal Downey approach to
walk-through is not the “technique” but the
reflective question and follow-up conversation
after several classroom observations. The
reflective question makes the Downey approach
radically different than other walk through
processes. The Downey model does not use
checklists as it is not normative. It is virtually
paperless. It has a very different goal –
that of creating a culture of reflection in
systems with self-analytical decision
makers. This session will present an
overview of the 5 step classroom observation
structure with a focus on curricular and
instructional decisions/actions of the
teacher. It will also provide the five
positive presuppositions in the Downey reflective
question and a demonstration of the reflective
conversation.
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Elaine McEwan
Leading for Reading Achievement
Participants will explore what kind of leadership
and school culture are necessary to raise reading
achievement in the context of five strategies for
raising reading achievement in K-12 schools.
How to Deal with Angry, Troubled, Exhausted, or
Just Plain Confused Teachers
Participants will learn about the most common
mistakes administrators make in dealing with
dysfunctional teachers and be introduced to the
Assertive Intervention, a tool for helping
dysfunctional teachers face their inappropriate
behaviors that are standing in the way of positive
school cultures and increased student achievement.
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Elaine McEwan
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Randall Lindsey
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Randall Lindsey
Culturally Proficient Leadership
Participants in this session will learn how the
tools of culturally proficient leadership can
enable them to create shifts in their schools so
as to move from a tolerance of diversity to
transformation for equity. In this
interactive session, participants will learn the
four tools of cultural proficiency and how they
are applied in day-to-day school settings.
Coaching for Culturally Proficient Instruction
Participants in this session will be presented with
the Mental Model for Culturally Proficient
Coaching. This model is a fusion of Costa and
Garmston’s Five States of Mind with the
Five Essential Elements of Cultural Competence. In this interactive session, participants
will examine coaching conversations that are focused
on the improvement of student achievement.
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Alan Blankstein Failure is Not an Option
Participants will learn about the six principles
that are essential for creating and sustaining
learning communities in which all students
succeed. Specific strategies and processes
will be provided, drawn from 15 years of research
on how high-performing schools and school
districts succeed. Attendees will also learn
how to develop mission and value statements that
drive successful school cultures, and how to build
consensus around systems and strategies for
reaching low-performing students.
Participants will learn about the concept of
building Courageous Leadership Capacity, and
receive a framework for creating collaborative
teams focused on teaching and learning.
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Alan Blankstein
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All featured sessions are presented in an interactive, 3 hour
workshop format! Registration is $499 per person; President's
Reception plus Coffee & Danish Breakfasts Included
(For room reservations, please call the San Diego
Sheraton Hotel and Marina at 877-734-2726.)
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