DESCRIPTION
Designed to provide facilitated support to administrators charged with the strategic leadership of a school’s academic program during the 2020–21 school year. The Academic Leaders Cohort will be intentionally limited in size (25–30 participants) with no more than one participant from any school in the cohort. Academic Leaders Cohort members will meet as a whole group synchronously every week, facilitated by Peter Gow, assisted by One Schoolhouse leadership and guest presenters. The group will have a dedicated online discussion and meeting space with a curated library of resources from One Schoolhouse and other sources. The Academic Leaders Cohort will provide a safe and confidential space for leaders to share concerns, ideas, questions, and resources. Members will expand their personal and professional networks, and address issues of the current time as well as look to the future.
Areas of Focus:
- Developing effective coaching programs for coaches and department chairs
- Considerations in designing programs, policies, and practices
- Trauma-informed leadership
- Building trust with key constituents
- Finding and capitalizing on “silver lining” opportunities in a crisis
- Communication strategies (parents, students, internal)
- Understanding multiple perspectives on curriculum and assessment
- Understanding and elevating the role of diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice concerns in the academic program and school culture
- Addressing diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice concerns in the academic program and school culture
- Reconsidering grading practices
- Data mining your own resources for guidance
- Managing professional development programming
- Sustaining important work during and beyond the pandemic
FACILITATORS
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Peter Gow -- Peter Gow became Independent Curriculum Resource Director at One Schoolhouse after a forty-plus-year career as a teacher and administrator. Peter is a prolific writer and presenter and author of multiple books on independent schools and independent school teaching and leadership. Above all, he is passionate in his belief that connection and collaboration are essential if independent schools are to live up to the promises made in their statements of mission and values and fulfill their public purpose.
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Sarah Hanawald -- Sarah serves as One Schoolhouse’s Assistant Head of School for Professional Development and New Programs. She has been a classroom teacher, a technology director, and an academic dean at three North Carolina independent schools. Sarah’s work has focused on the intersection of technology, curriculum, and pedagogy in defining the future of education.
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FORMAT
This is a 11 -week cohort, not an online course. There is a program plan, and the participants will influence the experience for one another. In that spirit, participation, sharing, and confidentiality/non-disclosure are expected from all members of the cohort.
Cohorts will have both synchronous (meet-ups and check-ins with Peter) and asynchronous (readings and written discussion boards) components. Administrators can expect that each week of the course will take about two hours per week to complete, one hour for the synchronous meetings and one hour for reading, watching and responding to that week's reading or video on the discussion boards. The synchronous meetings will be coordinated early during the first week of the cohort after we get a sense of time zones, flexibility, etc. It is really important to us to not to cut someone out of the synchronous components before they could opt in.
Cohorts will have both synchronous (meet-ups and check-ins with Peter) and asynchronous (readings and written discussion boards) components. Administrators can expect that each week of the course will take about two hours per week to complete, one hour for the synchronous meetings and one hour for reading, watching and responding to that week's reading or video on the discussion boards. The synchronous meetings will be coordinated early during the first week of the cohort after we get a sense of time zones, flexibility, etc. It is really important to us to not to cut someone out of the synchronous components before they could opt in.
FEES
$1250 for consortium school participants; $1750 for all other participants. Use the link above to register.
Registration closes on at close-of-business on Monday, October 12, 2020, or when the cohort is at capacity.
Registration closes on at close-of-business on Monday, October 12, 2020, or when the cohort is at capacity.