Workshops April - November 2010

April

Effective Strategies to Maximize Instructional Conversations   

Olympia—AWSP Office/Principal Leadership Center (click here for directions)
Presenter: Heather Knight, president, Leadership Innovations Team

This exciting approach to supervision makes a powerful impact on student achievement, teaching and supervisor/teacher relations. Participants will develop common tools and a framework for effective coaching conversations to support teachers in identifying and implementing learning experiences aligned with best practices.

The skills and information you will learn in this two-day training include:

• How to use a five-step process, The Cycle of Powerful Coaching, to ensure every instructional conversation is highly effective with measureable results
• How to apply the two essential skills used by leaders who are highly effective coaches—deep listening and powerful questioning
• Tools for ensuring teachers’ goals will be highly impactful to student success
• How classroom walk-throughs and frequent visits support the coaching process
• And much, much more!

Included Materials: The Coaching Tool Kit and Essential Secrets to Coaching Student Success. An optional DVD with model coaching conversations will be available for $25.00.

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AWSP/The Leadership Innovations Team–Extraordinary Leader: 360-degree Reassessment Workshop   

Tumwater—New Market Skills Center (www.nmvsc.com) 
Presenters: Alison Olzendam, president, Powerful Teaching and Learning Group

This workshop is designed for all individuals who have participated in a previous Extraordinary Leadership Institute last year by Leadership Innovations Team. Find out how well the process of focusing on your strengths in your professional development help grow your overall leadership effectiveness. This reassessment allows participants to administer the 360-degree survey, 12-18 months later after the initial survey and institute, to measure your growth over time. The workshop is designed to assist you with continued planning to capitalize on your strengths to grow your leadership effectiveness to extraordinary levels.

Important Note: The registration deadline for this workshop is 4:30 p.m., March 26. Due to the unique preparation of this workshop, registrations cannot be accepted after this date. There is limited space, so register early!


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May

Building-wide Discipline Strategies   

Shoreline Conference Center—Cromwell Room (www.shorelinecenter.com) 
Presenters: Mark Boynton, educational consultant

Attendees will learn that building-wide discipline starts in the classroom and is a “driver” of discipline throughout the building. After a brief overview of the four critical components of a prevention-based approach to classroom discipline, the workshop focuses on discipline outside of the classroom. The twelve critical prevention-based approaches to building-wide discipline and strategies for maintaining  structure in the halls, lunch room, fields and assemblies are reviewed. Learn specific approaches for maintaining an effective office referral system, appropriate dress code, violence and gang prevention policies. The importance of on-going assessment of the building discipline system, teaching the building rules, fostering student pride and  developing an effective anti bullying program (including cyber bullying) are emphasized. Attendees will learn that a building will never have a structured environment if staff members see enforcement of the agreed up policies as an “option” rather than a requirement. The workshop goes over the five critical components of an effective building-wide system of consequences as well as five critical consequences that, when implemented, will enable the entire staff by decreasing the severity and rate of rule violations. Videos of schools using these approaches will be used to provide visual examples of their effectiveness.

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If Disaster Struck Your School Today 

Olympia–AWSP Office/Principal Center (click here for directions) 
Presenter:  Barbara Thurman, consultant, OSPI

In any school crisis, school administrators are the first responders.  At what point should a crisis or emergency be handed over to other agencies? What responsibilities do administrators assume once this happens?  RCW28A.320.125 requires all WA. State school principals be FEMA certified in IS100 or Is100sca, the Incident Command System. All participants will receive instruction and materials to receive FEMA certification.  Further, participants will receive instruction on developing a comprehensive safe school plan, instruction for EQ drills including new maps developed showing school vulnerability.  Shelter-in-Place will also be discussed and materials distributed.

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AWSP/The Leadership Innovations Team–Extraordinary Leadership Institute     

Olympia—AWSP Office (Click here for directions)  LOCATION CHANGE!
Presenters: Alison Olzendam, president, Powerful Teaching and Learning Group

The Extraordinary Leaders Institute, offered by our partner, The Leadership Innovations Team, helps good leaders become great leaders by building on strengths and strategically targeting areas of improvement. This institute is based on the bestselling book, The Extraordinary Leader, by Drs. Jack Zenger and Joe Folkman. The program draws on 20 years of research and data from detailed statistical profiles of a wide range of educators.

This two-day institute brings leaders together to learn the research that differentiates good leaders from extraordinary leaders by using a powerful 360-degree feedback report.

Participants will:

• Examine the relationship between effective leaders and bottom line results and learn how this relationship can be demonstrated with data.
• Gain in-depth understanding of the 17 specific behaviors that separate the highest performing leaders from the rest and learn strategies for incorporating these behaviors into their daily activities right away.
• Receive feedback tools that provide real data, both quantitative and qualitative, about their current leadership competency levels.
• Identify their key strengths, possible areas of improvement and any potential fatal flaws that may need to be addressed in order to progress forward.
• Create an action plan to focus on building strengths as a leader and collaborate with others in their field to discuss leadership improvement, strategies for application and tools for actively improving and expanding leadership skills.   

Important Note: The registration deadline for this workshop is 4:30 p.m., April 15. Due to the unique preparation of this workshop, registrations cannot be accepted after this date. There is limited space, so register early!


Target Audience: Principals, assistant principals, superintendents or any staff member in a leadership position


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 November

How to Work Less, Produce More and Still Get the Job Done in a Sensible School Week

Seattle Area—Location TBA
Presenter: Malachi Pancoast, president, The Breakthrough Coach

Now in its seventh year, this program has been proven to double the amount of time administrators spend in classrooms coaching teachers, while reducing workloads.

In this program, you will learn about:

• Educational paradigms that keep school leaders overworked and underutilized
• Getting a principal and front office staff out of the school door by 4 p.m. daily, without losing administrative effectiveness
• Best practices for utilizing the school secretary
• 10 most effective ways to work with a secretary
• How to increase a principal's time in classrooms

You will leave able to:

• Run your organization in significantly less time
• Spend two full days a week in classrooms
• Involve district office, staff and parents in building community support
• Empower your secretary to free up your leadership capacity

Target audience: Principals, assistant principals, central office administrators and their secretaries

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