MAKING CONCURRENT LEARNING MORE ENGAGING AND
INCLUSIVE
This workshop is intended to support educators who want to learn more about how they can enhance their approach to concurrent learning to improve learning and teaching outcomes. In this session, we'll explore three instructional levers for improving engagement in concurrent classrooms, including improving relationships, increasing interactivity and accountability with live formative assessments, and creating systems for peer collaboration.
CAREGIVER CONNECTION: SETTING UP SYSTEMS TO PARTNER WITH FAMILIES
Flexible learning requires deep communication and partnership with families. Leaders should ensure teachers do not bear the full burden of partnership by considering issues like expectations, trust, and resource planning. In this workshop, leaders will explore some ‘essential caretaker connections’ that serve as the best practices for how we can support and leverage families in the success of their students, while balancing key guidelines for communication and teacher support to drive success of any plan.
ACADEMIC GAPS: USING DATA TO STOP THE SLIDE AND MOVE FORWARD
While the "COVID slide" may lead to unusually large learning loss this year, educators must always grapple with how to help students close academic gaps. There are no shortcuts, but there are strategies that accelerate learning. In this workshop, leaders will:
* Define the "remediation paradox"
* Explore scenarios and how consistency, data, equity, flexibility, and stakeholders play a role
* Build and get peer feedback on a plan to help teachers address gaps
SUPPORTING WELLNESS: UTILIZING MINDFULNESS TO MEET THE EMOTIONAL NEEDS OF YOUR TEAM
Cultivating a reflective, positive school culture that supports staff wellness is essential for leadership. By developing those practices with their team, leaders also model how to support students through an emotional and traumatic time. In this session, we discuss how leaders can attune themselves to the emotional needs of individuals and teams within a learning community
LOOKING BACK TO BETTER LOOK AHEAD
While the pandemic has forced us to make changes, often against our will, it has also led us to create new assets, to grow new skills in our staff and students, and it is crucial to reflect on these new strengths in a way that can set us up for success in the 2021 - 2022 school year.
This final workshop will help the cohort identify strengths and areas of growth after 18 months of flexible learning and will help each school leader create a vision and an action plan for starting the 2021 - 2022 school year in an impactful way that leverages all the innovations generated thru the crisis.