How can we help all students – including those from poor families and those learning English – reach high standards?

What does a great teacher, a great principal, a great superintendent, or a great school board member need to know?

These are the questions that keep education leaders up at
night. Springboard Schools can help you find the answers,
learn the techniques, and take home the tools you need to
make your schools successful.

The Springboard Schools Leadership Seminars

Each Springboard Schools Leadership Seminar is a stand-
alone module, packed with valuable information and practical
strategies, tools and tips drawn from our research in schools across the state which are getting great results with challenging student populations.   Each is taught by a seasoned education professional – our seminar leaders average more than 15 years of educational leadership experience – who knows how to provide the key elements of each topic in a way that makes this information actionable in your school or district.

The seminars are designed to provide valuable, actionable information to education leaders at every level of the system. There are programs for school board members, superintendents, principals, and teachers. Each provides the information, tools and tips needed by professionals working in the various positions that together create a successful school system.

When and where its best for you

Springboard Schools Leadership Seminars are available in regularly-scheduled sessions offered around the state or they or can be delivered in your school or district. Either way, most are limited to small groups to ensure that participants get the individual attention they need. And our experienced staff can be available for follow-up coaching as well.

Springboard Schools Leadership Seminars vary in length from two to nine days, held over one or two school years.

Helping you make Best Practices... your practices

Much of the content provided in the Springboard Schools Leadership Seminars is based on Springboard Schools' three-year California Best Practices Study. This study:

• Began by using data to identify high performing, high poverty, gap-closing schools and districts
• Involved teams that included both researchers and practitioners in intensive, on-site investigation of what really lies behind eye-opening results
• Translated what we found into practical tools and materials that make up the content for the Springboard Schools Springboard Schools Leadership Seminar

The Springboard Schools Leadership Seminars give a team from your district the chance to learn the lessons and hear the stories behind remarkable results. You’ll walk away with new ideas, new energy and a new sense of what is possible — and also with practical tools that you can put in place in your own school or district.

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Learn Lessons from High Performers

The high performers that you’ll meet at a Springboard Schools's Springboard Schools Leadership Seminars are real people from real California schools and districts. They grapple with the same challenges you do: impoverished communities, bare-bones resources, students learning English. Yet they are getting results, and they are eager to share what they know.

What You Can Expect

At a Springboard Schools Springboard Schools Leadership Seminar, you and your team will:

• Learn what works. We’ll introduce you to the findings of Springboard Schools researchers and to practitioners from high-performing, high-poverty schools and districts. You’ll learn their strategies and how you can make them work for you. 
• Work with experienced coaches and consultants. Coaching from our expert team will help your team identify your strengths and gaps, adapt the strategies you’re hearing about to your own context and leave knowing what to do next.
• Rub shoulders with your peers. You’ll be in the company of school and district leaders who share your commitment for improving teaching and learning for all of our children.
• Lay the foundation for next steps that will transform your school for the better.

What You’ll Learn

Closing the gap takes doing things differently. For example, did you know that High Performers:

• Work together across classrooms, schools and the district office— as a coherent team to provide consistent support for improved teaching and learning?
• Use frequent, diagnostic assessments to determine needs and adjust teaching— right away?
• Adopt textbooks and use both pacing guides and common assessments— in both elementary and high schools?  
• Provide teachers with regular collaboration time— even when confronted with budget cuts?
• Set explicit and measurable goals for improvement—for each student group, at each grade level— and in each classroom?
• Define “professionalism” in new ways — ways that can change our lives for the better?