“Leading to" Symposiums for School and District Administrators

Center for Responsive Schools is offering two professional development classes just for school and district leaders.

These 3-hour classes are focused on building knowledge, generating ideas, and learning about research-backed and evidence-based strategies and solutions for:

  • Creating and sustaining positive school culture and climate with shared values, strong and respectful relationships, and high expectations for all.
  • Teaching students the skills to meet behavioral and social interaction expectations as a foundation for academic success and engagement and meeting your vision of a high school graduate.

Limited Time: Free to School and District Leaders

The “Leading to” Symposiums are being offered, for a limited time only, at no charge to school and district leaders as part of Center for Responsive Schools’ commitment to its vision and mission to bring hope and joy to every student and every teacher in every school, every day! Register Now!

Leading to Create Positive and Caring School and Classroom Communities

School and district leaders aim to be intentional and goal-directed in providing leadership that results in positive culture and climate in their school and classroom communities. This kind of leadership requires knowledge-building and a toolbox of evidence-based yet practical solutions that can be implemented in your specific environment. Building positive school and classroom communities that support learning include initiatives to:

  • Increase student belonging and reduce absenteeism and disruptive behavior. 
  • Improve teacher optimism, retention, and sense of efficacy.
  • Build positive, caring, and respectful relationships.
  • Have civil and even delightful conversations between and among students and teachers be a norm for immediate and long-term improvements.

This 3-hour professional development seminar will provide insight into how intentional leadership decisions for professional learning shapes the culture and climate of schools and classrooms and examine how instructional and discipline practices, shared norms, relationships, and school-wide expectations work together to create environments where students and educators feel valued, connected, supported, and ready to teach and learn.

You will network with other leaders and leave with fresh knowledge, ideas, strategies, and solutions for strengthening consistency, improving school and classroom communities, and supporting meaningful change across your school.

Leading to Educate and Graduate Happy, Healthy, Wholesome Humans

School and district leaders are increasingly becoming aware of the connection between academic and even athletic success to students’ behavioral, social-emotional, and mental health/well-being outcomes. An increasing number of districts and schools are creating a vision of the student who graduates from their school as well rounded, happy, healthy, and wholesome. Consequently, there is a clear call to teach the students the competencies and skills that lead to success in learning, play, friendships, sports, work, and life while in school and after graduating.

Moreover, research suggests that when adults learn, practice, and model these social-emotional, behavioral, and well-being skills, there is a high likelihood that there will be improvement in school climate and culture.

The questions that school leaders must answer include:

  • How do we find the time to teach these skills?
  • How do I explain why we should take time to teach them?
  • What tools and curriculum areavailable for teaching these skills?
  • What professional development should be offered when implementing programs that build the skills that lead to academic and life success for our students?

In this 3-hour professional development seminar, you will explore school-wide strategies, practices, and curricula that intentionally teach and develop the competencies and skills students need to succeed in learning, play, friendships, sports, work, and life and how important it is to both teach and model these skills. This seminar aims to help leaders answer these questions in the context of implementing school-wide strategies and curricula with the goal of educating and graduating well-rounded, happy, healthy, and wholesome humans. 

You will network with other leaders and leave with fresh knowledge, ideas, strategies, and solutions for integrating instruction that teaches students the skills that power learning and meets your vision for a well-rounded high school graduate. 

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