Leadership Sessions in 2024
LEADERSHIP SESSIONS:
APEX Highlight: Hiring for Mission Fit
Alison Chaney; Zack Withers; Neil Gillingham
This workshop gave a glimpse into a course that highlights one of the critical building blocks of a virtuous faculty culture – hiring for mission fit. In a school with a focus on virtue ethics, the teachers serve as models to the students, as a type of character friend who will always carry the best interests and moral growth of the students firmly in their hearts. We discussed some of the key components of the hiring process and hosted an open forum to allow for questions and sharing of ideas across participants.
Planning More Effective PD Workshops for Teachers
Corinne Jacobson; Mary Chin
In this workshop we learned and discussed essential elements for creating professional development workshops of your own. We discussed ways to identify needs and build momentum around key-levers of success. Many joined us for this hands on session and met like minded colleagues who wanted to deliver the best professional development.
Cultivating Rising School Leaders
Helen Hayes
You’re a smart, capable leader, and everyone looks up to you. In fact, no one can picture the school without you, and pretty soon you are answering every teacher question and parents always want to go right to the top. This session helped strong leaders get stronger by thinking about and cultivating a strong second tier of leadership on their campuses.
Civics and the Liberal Arts
David Bobb
Strong civic education must be grounded in the liberal arts. This session will explore how to build a civics curriculum and civic culture in your school and classroom that upholds the liberal arts tradition, resists politicization, and teaches students what it means to be an American.
APEX Highlight: Instructional Coaching
Mary Chin; Jennifer Ramirez
This session will offer attendees a sneak peek into the newly developed APEX course on Instructional Coaching that will be launching July 2024. We will share some resources and strategies to utilize during the coaching process that are explored during the course. The second half of the workshop will explore ways to reach teachers at all levels of experience to ensure that faculty at all levels are feeling supported in their growth.
Employee Management: Coaching and Documenting for Better Performance and Better Outcomes
Julia Gillingham; Lea-Ann Reikes
Employee Management – it’s just coaching! In this interactive session, participants will learn strategies to coach an employee to higher performance. Participants will work through a case study and walk away with best practices regarding documentation and guidelines for performance coaching.
APEX Highlight: Leadership through Change
Deborah Rickey
As leaders, we understand change is part of our work. Especially in education, implementing and working through change has become part of what every school leader faces. Changes in personnel, curriculum, policies, students, parents, facilities, and so many more become part of the leader’s work. However, most leaders have not had the time to think through the process of change, understand how adults work through change, and reflect on how they personally work through change. The APEX course was designed to help leaders understand how to lead through change, prepare for change, and understand the many perspectives on change. This session will be an introduction to the topic of Leadership Through Change.