Virtual Learning Communities: From Vision to Practice
Presenters: Natalie Berger and Julie Moore
This workshop will use CLEE/SRI’s Future Protocol to have participants envision what facilitating a strong, online, collaborative community looks like and to identify the steps that they, as facilitators, can take to make that vision a reality. As experienced online facilitators, we will also share our own suggestions to support participants’ next steps.
Technical or Adaptive? Where to begin?
Presenters: Linda Nathan Bill Wehrli
School leaders face a constant barrage of problems they are expected to solve. In the rush to get things done, we often miss the step of analyzing the problem and distinguishing whether the problem is technical or adaptive. This brief pause and reflection can make all the difference. Treating an adaptive challenge as a technical problem can lead to familiar and undesirable outcomes. How does an accurate diagnosis shape your actions? Why does this matter? Where do you start? What can you expect when you decide the challenge you face is adaptive? In this workshop, we will offer tools to analyze problems and a menu of steps to start down the road of digging into adaptive challenges.
How do we scaffold into the deep and radical discourse our community needs to have?
Presenter: Gregory Peters
Initially designed as a scaffold for students to engage into rigorous academic discourse, the In2Out protocol has become a staple strategy in our professional development sessions to accelerate professionals’ engagement in challenging topics. Building off a framework for transformation, the In2Out protocol is designed to identify, reflect on, and expand our personal experiences as an entry point to discussing the work we need to do collectively – with a focus on the root issues to the inequities facing our students and families. Participants will be introduced to the protocol, practice it, and create their own prompts by the end of the session.
Collectivism: Authentic Engagement and Classroom Management with Diverse Students
Presenter: Michael Werth
Following some of the overarching themes related to the book Culturally Responsive Teaching and The Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students, the goal of this workshop is to guide participants in modeling research-based best practices in classroom management with diverse students utilizing the collectivist approach. I have 23 years of experience teaching mathematics in urban Title I classrooms. I completed my Certificate of Advanced Graduate Studies (C.A.G.S.) in Educational Leadership at Johnson & Wales University, and I’m writing my dissertation now.
What if….. we could truly help leaders achieve their highest aspirations for their school communities?
Presenter: Dave Schmid
This presentation is designed for school leaders who are committed to creating a collaborative and reflective school culture inspired to address issues of equity. Using a variety of different protocols and structures, the group will learn the impact of working from a dispositional stance to address the gap between what we aspire for in our schools and what actually exists. The dispositions we will work from include: Attending to a Larger Purpose, Listening for Understanding, Building Capacity, Demonstrating Empathy and Compassion, Building Relationships and Being a Continuous Learner.
Transforming Equity Protocols: Integrating SEL for Inclusive Design
Presenter: Shayna Fox-Norwitz
Several quality facilitation tools are available for examining student and teacher work through an equity lens. However, limited resources are available to reflectively examine how socioemotional and behavioral learning (SEL/SEB) are embedded in teacher work (instructional design, delivery and feedback) and student work products. In this session, we will explore how to modify the CLEE/SRI Equity Protocol to integrate SEL objectives. By aligning equity and SEL principles, session participants will walk away with a practical tool and facilitation skills to effectively promote SEL and equitable practices. Resources from both CLEE/SRI and CASEL will be utilized in the equity protocol adaptation process.
Throwing Darts in the Dark: Why School Districts Miss the Mark with Serving our Marginalized Student Populations by not Focusing on its Disproportionality
Presenter: Yozmin Gay
We can not accurately improve academic achievement with our Black and Latinx students if we don’t know where we’re specifically failing them. As racism is an intentional design to oppress and exclude marginalized student populations from opportunity, equity must be the intentional redesign to disrupt disproportionality and scale opportunity for all students. Come discover how Boston Public Schools’ Office of Opportunity Gap’s focus on disproportionality has deepened the district’s understanding of its student inequities through the Networked Improvement Community (NIC) model and build a plan to accurately mitigate student gaps within your own school, district, or educational organization.
School Leader & Coach Connection: How Rural School Leaders and Coaches Use Protocols
Presenter: Michaela Fray-Tappe
For the past seven years, Illinois Lead Hubs have worked to match trained leadership coaches to practicing school leaders. Through this process, one area of focus has been using protocols within rural schools to gain insight from all staff members and increase student achievement and growth. The CLEE/SRI tools have been a valuable and vital resource for school leaders as they enhance their organizational leadership skills and focus on continuous school improvement.
Keynote – Lorén Spears
