This session addresses the challenge of identifying high-impact school priorities by supporting participants in examining schoolwide goals and narrowing them down to a few key initiatives for the year.

Participants will clarify and reduce school priorities to targeted, impactful initiatives through collaborative discussion, then engage in focused action planning to ensure simple, clear, and coherent priorities that guide all stakeholders toward shared goals.

This session addresses the challenge of building trust as a leader by showcasing impactful motivational leadership strategies.

Participants will discuss and reflect on how leaders establish relational trust through motivational leadership, then explore best practices for engaging directly, building credibility, and nurturing trust with stakeholders.

This session addresses the challenge of developing clear leadership goals by introducing the three key elements of an effective personal vision to guide participants in drafting their own visions and connecting them to measurable outcomes.

Participants will use the elements of resilience, inclusivity, and service-orientation to create a Digital Vision Board that outlines each participant’s individual mission as a leader, then connect their personal leadership mission to S.M.A.R.T.E.R. goals and identify actionable next steps.

This session addresses the challenge of defining organizational success by exploring aspirational leadership and supporting participants in creating a clear vision that drives their school forward with connection and empathy.

Participants will engage in the aspirational narrative framework to create a vision that includes students, solutions, goals, challenges, and a call to action, then reflect on and share a vision of wild success for students and learning.

This session addresses the challenge of developing a roadmap to achieve a vision of success by establishing concrete actions and clear expectations associated with each step.

Participants will discuss and plan the process of a vision using the three steps of the HOW cycle: organize, implement, and improve, then brainstorm to determine the team members who will contribute to the vision, along with their roles and responsibilities.

This session addresses the challenge of building leadership capacity by identifying key leadership traits and discussing methods to nurture these skills in others.

Participants will identify 10 essential traits of strong leaders and assess personal strengths and growth areas, then discuss strategies to cultivate these traits and skills in team members.

This session addresses the challenge of establishing shared leadership by exploring practical methods for intentional delegation that strengthen collaboration among staff.

Participants will reflect on the 4 Levels of Invitational Leadership to encourage shared leadership, then analyze Parkey and Novak’s 5 P’s (people, places, policies, programs, and processes) to identify supportive practices that foster an inviting and collaborative school environment.

This session addresses the challenge of articulating clear and effective team norms by exploring their purpose and importance and discussing examples to demonstrate how norms contribute to productive meetings.

Participants will define effective leadership, reflect on the role of team norms in establishing effective leadership, and analyze examples of strong and weak team norms in meetings.

This session addresses the challenge of developing an impactful vision for coaching within an organization by using each participant’s core values, the school’s mission, and EdConnective’s 5 Principles of Effective Coaching to draft a coaching vision statement.

Participants will explore EdConnective’s principles of effective coaching, then use the principles of effective coaching and individual mission statements to develop a meaningful vision for mentorship.

This session addresses the challenge of creating a professional learning space with opportunities for structured skills practice.

Participants will identify strategies to design professional development experiences that emphasize clarity, high engagement, and purpose so that learning leads to effective practice.

This session addresses the challenge of designing professional learning that effectively supports educators by introducing the principles of Adult Learning Theory and exploring how these principles shape meaningful professional learning and coaching experiences.

Participants will describe key principles of Adult Learning Theory, reflect on their own learning preferences, and analyze how adult learning assumptions can inform professional learning and coaching practices.

This session addresses the challenge of determining which data should drive instructional decisions by guiding participants to examine multiple literacy data sources, conduct a data audit, and analyze information through the lenses of student learning and instructional practice to identify the most impactful areas for improvement.

Participants will identify available literacy data sources, categorize data using student learning and instructional practice lenses, and analyze how data can inform instructional priorities.

This session addresses the challenge of measuring and communicating progress with consistency by guiding participants to develop plans for gathering meaningful progress data that can be used as a foundation for innovation and improvements.

Participants will discuss the importance of gathering qualitative and quantitative progress data toward the progress of school-wide initiatives, then explore four learning paths that highlight simple and effective ways to measure and communicate progress.

This session addresses the challenge of translating data insights into meaningful professional learning by helping participants identify patterns across student learning and instructional practice data, clarify a compelling reason for focus, and determine instructional practices that should guide adult learning.

Participants will analyze patterns across student learning and instructional practice data, articulate a compelling rationale for professional learning priorities, and identify research-aligned instructional practices to guide professional learning.

This session addresses the challenge of ensuring classroom walkthroughs support instructional improvement rather than compliance by examining how walkthrough tools aligned to the Science of Reading can be used to strengthen instructional implementation and guide productive conversations about teaching and learning.

Participants will reflect on current walkthrough practices, analyze how walkthroughs support Science of Reading–aligned instruction, and identify strategies to ensure walkthroughs promote instructional learning and improvement.