Embracing the value of leadership in education and empowering students and teachers to champion their own leadership promotes both student and school success. Through the implementation of BARR, involving both systemic and relationship-based approaches, one rural Maine school shares their experience enhancing outcomes and fostering new leaders in their community.
Low teacher retention rates impact students everywhere. This session will highlight research regarding teacher job satisfaction, as well as leadership practices that contribute and detract from it. Participants will interact with the research and leave with leadership strategies that may effectively enhance teacher job satisfaction and increase teacher retention rates.
Teachers are exiting the world of education at alarming rates. When they leave, they’re exhausted, frustrated, and angry. How do we stem this tide? How do we save our teachers in order to save our schools? This presentation will examine specific skills and mindsets that new teachers must develop in order to love their jobs, as well as ways that colleagues and leaders can help them in this development.
"The Successful Middle School” states Effective Leadership is critical to a school's success. The question that needs to be addressed is, so what is effective “middle level” leadership? Interested in becoming an administrator? Join veteran administrators Bob Griffin, Scott Clayton, and Jeff Rodman for an in-depth discussion on middle level leadership.
Executive Director, New England League of Middle Schools
Founded in 1974, the New England League of Middle Schools (NELMS) is a non-profit organization founded with the purpose of fostering general improvement of education for middle level students and educators. NELMS is committed to a concept of quality education for the pre and early... Read More →
We will share our collaborative approach to professional learning, building capacity, organizational strategies & structures, and leadership. We will help all educators in all roles show how Ditching Divide & Conquer will help tackle challenges & yield better outcomes for kids, less teacher burnout, and create more fun!
Middle level students are tremendous leaders and their talents can help shift and shape school culture; in this session, participants will learn how to create a ready-to-launch restorative mentoring program that focuses on building social and academic culture in school.
Discover how high school National Honor Society students mentor middle school students to enhance academic success, build connections, and inspire motivation. This program fosters collaboration, emotional support, and leadership development. Learn how mentorship boosts student confidence, strengthens school community ties, and creates meaningful opportunities for personal growth and academic achievement.
Join this interactive session and take away practical brain-based techniques to inspire, engage, connect and empower your faculty and professional learning teams. Explore experiential engagement, reflection, and community-building strategies to enliven meetings and inspire meaningful dialogue, involvement, and collaboration with adult learners. Create lasting lessons and cultivate a shared positive and collaborative vision for your teams. Gain inspiration, new perspectives, and connections with other leaders.
Participants learn about the four conditions and practices that lead to a culture in which every educator and student acts as a leader. Participants unpack the skills of leadership and engage in an interactive “Spider Web” discussion to co-construct strategies for fostering leadership conditions and practices in their setting.
I love school. At cor creative partners, we provide joyful professional development to support integrating SEL + Academics, developing leadership, curriculum and pedagogy, and the Investigating History curriculum.
James Simons loves school. Prior to co-founding cor creative partners, James Simons served as a high school principal and dean of students, an instructional coach, a middle and high school English teacher, a visual storyteller, and a writer. In his current role, James coaches school... Read More →
