In collaboration with the New York City Department of Education (NYCDOE) and the Council of Administrators and Supervisors Executive Leadership Institute, the NYC Leadership Academy offers the Children First Leadership Workshop Series. These workshops, which address a wide range of topics, are aligned with the NYCDOE’s School Leadership Competencies and designed to strengthen school leaders’ leadership capacities. We also offer school leadership conferences for principals and their teams. Workshop and conference descriptions and enrollment information are provided below:
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Leadership Conferences
Workshops
Closing the Year: Effective Time Management and Delegation Practices
This workshop is designed to help school leaders utilize their time in the most efficient and effective ways. Utilizing tools such as the Responsibility Matrix, leaders will be able to manage and lead all the end of year tasks and put into motion the initial steps for the upcoming school year. Moreover, this work will provide school leaders with the opportunity to involve and develop their staff. This session will be aligned to the following School Leadership Competencies: Personal Leadership and Staff and Community.
Brooklyn ELC, 16 Court Street, 4th floor, Brooklyn, NY from 8:30am - 11:30am
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
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Effective Communication to Move your Instructional Agenda
During this workshop school leaders will take some time to hone their vision for the upcoming year, understand the importance of and form a consistent message, develop a strategic communication plan that will help them address various stakeholders and identify leverage points, and give them the opportunity to practice conversations and other modes of communicating their message. This will be broken down into three parts: setting direction for 2009-2010, developing a Strategic Communication Plan, and getting your message across
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Brooklyn ELC, 16 Court St. 4th Fl., Brooklyn, NY from 8:30am-11:30am
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Thursday, May 27, 2010
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Leading Change: Developing High Performance Teams
During this workshop, school leaders will examine how high performing teams operate. They will then have the option of identifying one or more of their teams including but not limited to: SLT, Inquiry, Instructional Cabinet, and Administrative Cabinet. School leaders will take a critical look at the efficacy of their existing teams and determine how each team’s practice can become more proficient in improving student performance. School leaders will leave with action plans to improve their own teams. This session will be aligned to the following NYC School Leadership Competencies: Personal Leadership, Use of Data and Development of Staff.
Brooklyn ELC, 16 Court St. 4th Fl., Brooklyn, NY from 12:30pm-3:30pm
Thursday, May 27, 2010
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Quality Reviews I. "An Overview of Change"
This workshop highlights the changes in the Quality Review process for the 2009-2010 school year. The relationship between the leadership competencies and the QR as a lens for school improvement will be examined. Participants will obtain a foundation to help them to develop their leadership skills with an emphasis on accountability.
Brooklyn ELC, 16 Court St. 4th Fl., Brooklyn, NY from 8:30am-11:30am
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
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Quality Reviews II. "The Road to School Improvement"
This workshop is designed to enable School Leaders to utilize the Quality Review as a blueprint of school improvement that is aligned to core competencies. Emphasis will be placed on completing the SSEF, examining the QR scoring rubric, and developing strategies to promote student achievement. Interactive activities will include sharing best practices, role play and group work with QR scenarios.
Brooklyn ELC, 16 Court St. 4th Fl., Brooklyn, NY from 12:30pm-3:30pm
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
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PowerPoint 2007 (Part I and II)
This workshop explores the power of effective presentations using Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007. Participants learn how to create slides, determine appropriate slide layouts, insert pictures, charts, tables, sounds, and videos, use slide transitions and animation. Participates create and present a PowerPoint slideshow.
Qns. ELC, PS 193, 152-20 11th Ave., Whitestone, NY 11357 from 8:30am-3:30pm
Monday, April 19, 2010 from 8:30am to 3:30pm
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Schools and Parent Involvement: Building a Community and Sharing a Vision
A Collaboration between the NYC Leadership Academy and the Office for Family Engagement and Advocacy
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
8:00 AM – 4:00 PM
45-18 Court Square, Long Island City
This session will be divided into two parts. The morning will be focused on School Leadership Teams and the role of parent involvement in Title I Schools. The afternoon will be focused on the role of Parent Coordinators and PAs/PTAs in building community and promoting parent involvement. Both the morning and afternoon portions of the day will begin with a panel of your peers, principals who have been identified as being successful in promoting parent involvement in the areas described above. The panels will be followed by school level breakout sessions during which you will have the opportunity to meet with representatives from various schools, explore their practices in greater detail, and have your questions answered on how to put structures in place to "make it happen".
The conference will begin at 8:00 AM and conclude at 4:00 PM. You and your team may choose to attend for part or all of the day. Breakfast and lunch will be served. Click here for directions [2]. Please RSVP to Michael Kim [3] by Friday, April 30. In your email, please include how many people from your school will be coming with you.
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All schools / May 13 and 18
The NYC Leadership Academy is pleased to invite principals and their teams to a leadership conference on Assessment Literacy. This two day workshop will make explicit the link between assessment of student learning and decisions about what to teach and how to teach it within the unique context of each school. Please join us on:
Thursday, May 13th
8:00 AM – 4:00 PM
LaGuardia Marriott
102-05 Ditmars Boulevard
East Elmhurst, New York, 11369
http://www.marriott.com/hotels/maps/directions/lgaap-new-york-laguardia-airport-marriott/ [4]
and
Tuesday, May 18th
8:00 AM – 4:00 PM
NYC Leadership Academy
45-18 Court Square 2nd Fl.
Long Island City, New York, 11101
http://www.nycleadershipacademy.org/who_we_are/directions [5]
Principals and their teams will use data from their own schools to work through a series of exercises designed to:
- Make addressing the standards manageable
- Identify the appropriate assessments for determining progress toward those standards
- Use assessment information to guide curriculum choices
- Make curriculum learning objectives clear to the learners
- Ensure that teachers and students receive the feedback they need to modify their practices and achieve their learning goals
The conference will begin each day at 8:00 AM and conclude at 4:00 PM. Breakfast and lunch will be served on both days. Please RSVP to Michael Kim [3] by Friday, April 23rd since we will need time to prepare a customized packet of data for each participating school. In your email, please include how many people from your school will be coming with you (maximum of 4). Please note that the first and second days of the conference will be held in different sites as noted above.
Principal Summer Institute
July 19, 2010 – July 22, 2011
Save the Dates
The Executive Leadership Institute, working in tandem with the Leadership Academy, the Talent Office, and the Office of Teaching and Learning, invite you to attend the Summer Principal Institute, July 19 through July 22, 2010. “If school leadership is the key to school improvement, then in this era of accountability, the skill and knowledge of principals matter more than ever.” (Frederick M. Hess & Andrew P. Kelly)
This Institute has been carefully orchestrated to ensure that you, the school Principal, have an opportunity to engage in professional development that focuses on personal leadership, with a lens on how to become a more strategic leader for the upcoming school year. To provide you with the ultimate professional development experience, we are developing a menu of workshops that will enable you to target your own professional development needs. Several of the workshops will be “nuts and bolts” in nature, centered on accountability/data tools and their implication for teaching and learning. Some workshops will concentrate directly on Teaching and Learning, while others will have a concentrated focus on Personal Leadership. A detailed calendar and registration information will appear in the May and June CSA News. Additional information will be posted in the CSA and Leadership Academy websites, the Principal’s Portal and the Principal’s Weekly.
Remember: Summer Principal Institute
Dates: Monday, July 19, 2010 – Thursday, July 22, 2010
Time: 7:30 – 3:30 pm
Place: St. Francis College
180 Remsen Street,
Brooklyn, NY
These programs are currently under development.The process of starting a school is overwhelming, with an enormous number of bureaucratic issues. The Leadership Academy was critical, to facilitate our relationships with the various offices, applications, and processes.
–Coaching Participant/APP Graduate