Educational Leadership

In every school, there are teacher-led innovations and breakthroughs waiting to happen. This session helps teachers rethink their role in leading change and offers some specific, definitive roles in teacher leadership.

Participants will start to find their purpose and identify ways to ignite the creative spirit within. This session is fun, highly interactive, and leaves attendees with models in teacher leadership that inform and inspire their work each day.

This session is ideal for schools striving for greater levels of teacher empowerment and ownership of the change agenda. It can also help motivate teachers to rediscover their love for teaching and to perhaps redefine what’s possible for them, for their students, and for the profession!

The coaching and mentoring of school leaders and leadership teams has been highly effective in school improvement plans. FACTS Education Solutions supports the development of school leaders, assists to develop a climate and culture in the school that empowers every teacher, and fortifies the leader in making positive school improvements. Therefore, the program can impact every student and teacher in the school.

This coaching and mentoring program is comprised of 10 leadership competencies that revolve around the key attributes of proven leaders.

Components can be customized to include on-site and online training to respect the participants’ time for professional development. Workshop sessions are customized to address the needs of the individual district or school.

Training is designed to:

• Support the improvement and development of school leaders
• Help school leaders develop a climate and culture that drives student achievement
• Fortify each leader in their pursuit of leading significant levels of school improvements
• Offer multi-level support directly with a top school leadership consultant

Effective professional development strategies are paramount to the success of any large-scale initiative in a school or district. In this session, we will model best practices by learning effective uses for the mobile device or tablet computer in the classroom and for administration.

Delivering the message is also a critical piece of the puzzle, so part of this session is designed to improve presentation skills and visuals for varying audiences. Three days of training is recommended to gain the full benefit of all the stated areas, however it can be adjusted to focus on specific needs, including: the idea, the plan, the actions, and the award.

This session is designed for school administrators, teacher leaders, teaching coaches, and professional development coordinators, and includes the following leadership topics:

• Moving to a 1:1 or BYOD program
• Strategic thinking for mobile device implementation
• Presentation skills for administrators
• Integrating blended learning into the school curriculum
• Professional development planning
• Developing a productivity workflow workshop session

eWalk is a classroom observation program for improving and empowering administrators, coaches, and lead teachers as instructional leaders. The eWalk Classroom Observation is designed to develop a continuous, systemic, long-range school improvement program.

eWalk prepares educators to engage in focused visits to the classroom for the purpose of ensuring:

• Instruction meets the needs of all learners
• Instructional management and monitoring of student academic achievement
• Instructional needs of learners are met with appropriate resources and technology tools

The program incorporates alignment to school accreditation standards, proven professional development methodologies, new technologies, and customized training for administrators and coaches.

eWalk is designed to support school staff in gaining knowledge in instructional practices that increase student achievement. eWalk is based upon the research findings by Dr. Robert Marzano, Charlotte Danielson, and Mike Schmoker among other noted educational specialists in classroom walkthroughs.

In every classroom, training scenario, or professional evaluation, important learning moments and opportunities go unnoticed. Vosaic helps you gather, identify, and share those moments using video.

If you’ve ever tried to provide feedback to teachers right after their class – or worse, a day later – you know how hard it can be to accurately capture thoughts you had in the moment.

Recording a video of a teacher allows you to find and share key learning moments that are important for their professional development.

This session explains how Vosaic can help you:

• Capture and upload video using your favorite device. Watch it alone, or with your team to discover key moments you want to review.
• Create a set of custom buttons you and your team can press every time you see a moment you want to come back to later.
• Use comments to describe your thinking around specific moments or to provide more detailed feedback.
• Compare how different team members viewed and marked up the same video, or share your marked up video with others for feedback.

A school invests in the latest classroom technology and training for teachers, but how is a principal to know – whether during walk-throughs or formal observations – whether this technology is supporting solid pedagogy? Are the students learning, or is it just for show?

This presentation examines ways for a principal to support, develop, and evaluate teachers in their use of classroom technology.