Excutive Leadership Center Seminars

Springboard Schools and ACSA have formed a partnership to provide high quality, leading edge professional development for superintendents, in the form of the proven Executive Leadership Center (ELC) Seminars. Piloted in Fresno, Madera, Los Angeles, and El Dorado Counties , the ELCs have been received with a tremendously positive response from the District and County Superintendents who have participated.

In the 2008-09 school year we will offer ELC Seminars in eight regions of California. You will want to consider becoming a presenting partner or attending an ELC in your region.

We are offering two programs, the Regional ELC Seminar Series, which is primarily targeted at experienced superintendents and the New Superintendents
ELC Seminar Series, which focuses on first and second year superintendents.

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What is an Executive Leadership Center Seminar?

The Executive Leadership Center program consists of current research and literature related to instructional and organizational leadership and the challenges that school leaders face. There is an emphasis on applying these best practices to create a district environment of improved teaching and learning. The program is facilitated by experienced school superintendents working with Springboard Schools, As a participating superintendent, you will learn:

1. How to apply high-leverage, research-based, leadership strategies to work with district leaders, principals, teachers, and the district Community. You will also learn how to establish high expectations, focus on district priorities, insure program coherence and inspire commitment to achieve ambitious goals for student learning.
2. How to shape a district culture that mobilizes members of the district
   community to do the work necessary to improve the systems, structures and practices that support and sustain an accessible, rigorous, coherent and articulated curriculum for all students, high-quality teaching and successful student learning.

The 2008-09 Executive Leadership Center Seminars will include:

All sessions are highly interactive, drawing from the latest research and literature to challenge participants to think deeply about their practice. The topics and content are recommended by an Advisory Council of highly respected superintendents from throughout the State, and all sessions are presented by experienced superintendents.

Professional Learning Communities will be created in each cohort, using inquiry techniques and best practices research to guide the work. Each session includes presentations of new material, readings, peer interaction and reflection, ending with an individual plan of action for the future.

Regional ELC Seminar Series

The Regional ELC Seminar Series is three seminars offered over a three to six month period. Each seminar is four hours long. Topics for next year include:

1. Making a Difference in Student Achievement: What Superintendents do that Matters Most
2. Building a High Performance Teaching and Learning Team
3. Building Systems, Structures and Processes that Support High Levels of Student Achievement

New Superintendents ELC Seminar Series

The New Superintendents ELC Seminar Series is six seminars offered over a two year period. Each seminar is four hours long. The comiuing year's topics are:

1. Understanding Organizational Culture as a Driving Force Behind Organizational Change and Improvement
2. Developing a High Performance Governance Team Focused on Teaching and Learning
3. Making a Difference in Student Achievement: What Superintendents do that Matters Most
4. Strategic Leadership
5. Effective Strategies for Working with Bargaining Units to Build Positive Employee-Employer Relationships
6. Building Systems, Structures and Processes that Support High Levels of Student AchievementInformative

Who should attend the Executive Leadership Center Seminar?

The leadership network is open to superintendents and other district-level leaders. Participants attend the network meetings as district teams and are part of a wider professional learning community. We recommend that these teams include:

• District Superintendents
• Assistant Superintendents
• County Superintendents
• County Leadership

 

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Thanks to ACSA and CVELI for their partnership in providing ELCs around the state.