The A+ Administrators Academy is a unique opportunity for school and district leaders to gain valuable insights on topics essential to the health and success of their individual schools and districts, all while getting away from their hectic daily realities. Administrators will receive tailored coaching that is focused on helping them build practical strategies that can be implemented immediately. They will build relationships with other administrators and develop partnerships to encourage their journeys. This combination of training, coaching and implementation in a focused environment will equip them for leading their organizations to even greater success.
Each session will include:
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2 HOURS of instruction and interaction on the principles of the topic.
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2 HOURS of group processing and topic development
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2 HOURS of coaching for practical planning and strategy development
Educational leaders will walk away from each session with strategies and goals for practical application of the material. This will be accomplished through materials and interactivities designed specifically to aid in this outcome.
Session 1: Understanding & Leveraging the Power of Backstory
August 31, 2023
8:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.In this workshop, we will explore key principles of human development and learn how these dynamics are impacting our own leadership, advising how our teams engage in their roles and influencing the culture of our staff and students. We will build practical, culture-shaping strategies that leverage the power of backstory.
Session 2: Discovering & Developing Your Style of Leadership
November 30, 20238:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.Teams, environments and outcomes across entire districts are greatly influenced by individual leadership styles. Leadership drives culture, impacts job satisfaction and ultimately sets the pace for an organization’s level of effectiveness. In this workshop, drawing on the Power of Backstory, we will discover each participant’s leadership style, demonstrate how to assess the styles of those they lead and develop strategies that maximize those styles for leading their teams to healthy success.
Session 3: Designing & Building a Strong Team Culture
February 29, 2024
8:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.Culture is the greatest key to sustained success. Cultivating healthy culture is one of the most important responsibilities of a strong leader. Culture is also automatic. If we do not shape culture intentionally, it will develop organically, often in undesirable ways. In this workshop, we will leverage our work from Workshops One and Two and introduce strategies for assessing the current
Session 4: Defining & Recapturing Healthy Classrooms
June 18, 2024
8:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.The ultimate outcome of understanding human development, growing our own leadership and building a strong team culture is recapturing healthy classrooms. In this final workshop, we bring all the components of the first three workshops into view to help define healthy classrooms and leverage all we have learned for designing strategies that recapture those healthy classrooms.
Date(s): August 31, November 30, 2023, February 29, June 18, 2024
Target Audience: K-12 administrators (superintendent, principals, assistant principals, deans, curriculum directors) engaged as partners in the education pathway grant
Time: 8:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Location: Sauk Valley Community College, Room 1H16
Presenter(s): Tom Toney
Credit Available: 24 PD Hours; Administrator Academy Credit available
Cost: Free for Ed Pathway Partner District Administrators; $500 co-op members; $1000 non co-op members
Registration Deadline: July 14, 2023
Limit of 25 Registrations
