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Workshops for Leaders

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The Art of Accountability

5 PDPs ~ $250

November 1, 2024

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  • Examine your supervision and evaluation practices.

  • Is it a reprimand, a letter in personnel file, a warning, a day without pay, a recommendation to dismiss, or included in the performance evaluation?

  • Explore efficiencies in the feedback loop.

  • When does Weingarten kick in? And what is best practice for its use?

  • Share personnel issues and examine strategies to avoid litigation.

  • Be provided with letters of reprimand and sample improvement plans.

  • Develop confidence in your role as chief accountability officer.

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Team Building and Leadership Culture 

5 PDPs ~ $250

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  • Master communication protocols

  • Evaluate your practice to support educator sustainability

  • Ground decisions in learner centered and culturally proficient principles

  • Employ practices that emphasize distributive leadership and capacity building

  • Apply MTSS to your staff

  • Explore principles of team building from highly effective business models and athletics

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Conflict Management ~ Difficult Conversations ~ Effective Confrontation

Responding to the Current Landscape

5 PDPs ~ $250

December 18, 2024

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  • Master the art and science of conflict management.

  • Develop communication skills to navigate difficult people.

  • Learn the six elements of mastering difficult conversations.

  • Employ deescalating techniques to common scenarios.

  • Recognize fear-based behavior and resistance.

  • Apply specific strategies to five difficult personality types.

  • Practice difficult conversations for mediations, complaints, and evaluation conferences

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MTSS for School Leaders

5 PDPs ~ $250

March 7, 2025

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  • Develop models for tiered school and district wide screening and progress monitoring.

  • Remove barriers to UDL principles.

  • Employ specific elements of adaptive and collaborative leadership.

  • Review district and school data to support resource allocation at each tier.

  • Use your Strategic Plans and School Improvement Plans to get community and staff buy in.

  • Explore how your current practices and polices support inclusive practices.

Working Together

Leadership Aces

3 Full Days ~ $750  ~  20 PDPS

October 23, 2024  ~  February 5, 2025  ~  April 4, 2025

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  • Examine relevant case studies and pressing issues framed in the ACES strategic leadership model.

  • Accountability – learn strategies in holding others accountable vs. adding more to the plates of the strongest and most effective (including yourself).

  • Contributions – develop contribution-based practices that encourages course correction, purposeful collaboration, and milestone checkpoints.

  • Expectations – implement a fire prevention leadership style.

  • Support and Sustainability– apply the MA MTSS Blueprint of support to staff.

Giving a Presentation

Influencer in Chief

5 PDPs ~ $250

May 2, 2025

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  • Move from supporting to pursuing principles of social justice, economic and social equity and humanitarian ideals.

  • Move from depoliticized, vanilla school leadership to politically contextualized policy and practice.

  • Recognize that silence and vanilla school leadership is a disservice to students and actively contributes to systemic failures.

  • Harness your influence in profound and productive ways.

  • Commit to choosing a leadership path of influence.

  • Ground school leadership in principles of common humanity.

  • Leave with renewed gravitas.

Digital Reading

Strengthening  Leadership for Women 

New Cohort 

3 Full Days  ~  20 PDPs ~ $750

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November 20, 2024  ~  January 17, 2025  ~  April 9, 2025

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  • Edcamp/Unconference style: Participants choose the topics

             Cohort I topics included:

  • Building confidence

  • Managing conflict

  • Negotiating contracts 

  • Emotional labor and mental load gender imbalance

  • Publishing, presenting, and networking locally and internationally

  • Analyze the cognitive load and invisible labor of females

  • Exploring models of sustainability: ours, theirs, and work/life balance

Team Meeting

Team Building and Leadership Culture

5 PDPs ~ $250 

January 15, 2025

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  • Master communication protocols.

  • Evaluate your practice to support educator sustainability.

  • Ground decisions in learner centered and culturally proficient principles.

  • Employ practices that advance distributive leadership and capacity building.

  • Apply MTSS principles to your staff.

  • Explore team building strategies from highly effective business models and athletics.

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Science of Reading for Administrators

5 PDPs ~ $250

Strategic Literacy Leadership for: 

Superintendents, Assistant Superintendents, Principals, Assistant Principals,

Special Education Administrators, Team Chairs,

Curriculum Coordinators, and school-based literacy team

DATE TBD

The “Science of Reading” at a Glance

  • ​What does the science of reading mean for my school/district?

  • What existing and potential new laws will impact systemic change?

  • What does the science of reading look like in action?​

Early Literacy Screenings, Intervention, and Systemic Change

  • ​How do required literacy screenings impact and relate to MTSS?

  • What current or existing practices in my district need to change?

  • How do administrators become agents of systemic change that disrupts deeply ingrained belief systems of educators?​​

District Action Planning & Implementing Sustainable Change​

  • What might be the best path forward for your individual district?

  • What strategic next steps will your district outline related to the Science of Reading?

  • What plan will you outline for knowledge building of both educators, support staff, and families?​

Facilitated by Jackie Abrams and Deborah Rooney

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