Leading Strategically Faculty: Elizabeth City Time: 8:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Session Overview In this session we will take up the question of how to lead strategically amidst all the competing demands on your time and energy. We will use several hands-on activities to help you diagnose the current state of your strategic leadership and identify areas to strengthen it, with the goal of helping you prioritize, as well as supporting you to build others’ strategic capacity. Required Reading* * “ Introduction Download Introduction ” (p. 1-10) from Leading Strategically: Achieving Ambitions Goals in Education by Elizabeth A. City and Rachel E. Curtis. Harvard Education Press: Cambridge, MA. 2025. Notes from Liz's session Which of the five elements of strategic leadership do you feel strongest in? How has that shifted over your career? Relationships and context. *relationships across bodies of work across the school....
Building the Capacity for Effective Family-School Partnerships Part 2 Faculty: Karen Mapp Notes from Karen's session Five essential supports - 1. Leadership driving 2 Professional capacity to know how to engage 3. Student centred learning 4. Parent-Community ties 5. Classroom - is the instructional core - instructional guidance for parents Is family engagement perceived as a main ingredient of our success? Who is not engaging and why? How can we partner differently to increase engagement? Children inviting parents? Intent of occasion. Input from parents expected. Listening with our ears! All about me *** could be a week one exercise for parents to complete ** I love Things that help me learn People in my life who are important Strengths Behaviours to ignore Things I am working on Helps calm me What doesn't work Gather info from parents: I may be willing to offer to support to the school in ... sport...