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School leaders need to find multiple ways to help stakeholders focus on the right issues that revolve around learning. This webinar will explore how leaders can flip their faculty/staff meetings and parent communications to build a more engaging school climate. This is not a fad, but an engaging way to continue the ongoing conversation about education.

Presented by Dr. Tim Cusack // Vince Bustamante

Fewer teacher-leaders and aspiring leaders are stepping into the role of school principal, and this has created a desperate need. The issue is not only whether individuals desire to lead, but rather how we are preparing aspiring leaders to assume the role of principal. This webinar will explore a framework that is designed to better prepare aspiring school leaders for the role of principalship.

Presented by Cathy Lassiter, Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, and Dominique Smith

Enrich and expand your capacities to strengthen instructional leadership in your district by focusing on what works best—emphasizing the essential mindframes and research to effectively lead teaching, learning, and change. In this webinar, the presenters will discuss specific practices to strengthen instructional leadership, cultivate a learning-focused culture for staff and students, and leverage implementation-deimplementation science to successfully lead change.

Presented by Brad Gustafson and Bill Ziegler

In Collaboration with Walden University

In this webinar, two award-winning principals (one from an elementary school and another from a high school) square off on some of the biggest problems school leaders are facing in education. They’ll share strategies to amplify learning and help you apply positive deviance to break through the barriers you may be facing.

Presented by Peter DeWitt

Collective leader efficacy (CLE) is a shared conviction among a school leadership team that they can improve the learning environment for all students. Unfortunately, many school leadership teams lack this conviction. In this presentation, Peter DeWitt, E.D. provides the research, explains the drivers, and engages participants in the cycle of inquiry that will help leadership teams develop collective leader efficacy as a leadership team.

Presented by Cathy Lassiter

School leaders cannot be effective if they lack the courage to embrace accountability, build trust, and take risks. In this webinar, Dr. Cathy Lassiter describes four types of courageous leadership that can be applied to the most difficult school leadership challenges.

Presented by Glenn Singleton and Melissa Krull

This webinar is hosted in partnership with EdWeek. While the COVID-19 pandemic continues to reveal systemic racial disparities in educational opportunity, there are revelations to which we can and must respond. Through conscientious efforts, using an intentional focus on race, school leaders can address these inequities and create the conditions for every student to achieve at high levels.

Presented by Glenn Singleton and Melissa Krull

This webinar is hosted in partnership with EdWeek. While the COVID-19 pandemic continues to reveal systemic racial disparities in educational opportunity, there are revelations to which we can and must respond. Through conscientious efforts, using an intentional focus on race, school leaders can address these inequities and create the conditions for every student to achieve at high levels.

Presented by Jenni Donohoo

What matters most in raising student achievement?

Research identifies collective efficacy—the shared belief that what we do really matters—as the #1 factor. When teachers believe that, together, they can positively impact student learning, it results in a number of productive patterns of behaviour. Join us to learn more about what collective efficacy is, why it's important, and how to foster efficacy to ensure equity, promote well-being, and enhance public confidence in education.

Presented by Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, Dominique Smith, and John Hattie

For Doug Fisher, Nancy Frey, Dominique Smith, and John Hattie, rushing back to the “old normal” may very well be the “greatest travesty that can arise for our schools.” Because the “old normal” won’t accelerate learning, won’t reignite engagement, won’t restore social-emotional well-being. Instead, we should draw on the many lessons learned so we can take advantage of this unprecedent moment in time to create better systems for schooling.