Eastern Suffolk BOCES

13th Annual
Leadership Academy

(formerly Principals' Academy)

Keys to Creating Engaging Learning Environments

Keynote: Keys to Creating Engaging Learning Environments 

  Presented by Candi McKay  

This session will explore key factors for leaders that empower teachers to become the architects of their professional learning, creating cultures where “getting better” applies to everyone in the system. This session provides leaders with a greater understanding of how to support teachers in planning for student engagement, and what it takes for students to move beyond compliance and become active participants in their own learning.  

Keynote: Creating an Engaging Learning Environment that Builds Executive Function 

Presented by Dan Gross

 Engaging learning environments put students in charge of learning, embed choice, and are designed for students to solve open-ended problems. Building executive function skills, including self-regulation skills, is critical for students to have higher achievement in these engaging student-driven, problem-based learning environments. These executive function skills are foundational to college and career readiness skills, the 4 Cs, and to prepare our students to be successful leaders. We will explore how instructional leaders can inspire, support, and challenge their team members to continue to make instructional and curricular shifts necessary to build these engaging learning environments.

Break-Out Sessions Include:

• Utilizing “Teaching Tolerance” for Social Emotional Learning of ELLs
• Effective Communication Strategies for Leaders (Six Hats)
• Three Steps to Engage Teachers in Reflective Conversations
• Update on Students with Interrupted/Inconsistent Formal Education (SIFE)
• How to Effectively Use Data to Inform Instruction for Leaders
• Designing Engaging Meetings that Model Building Executive Function Skills

When: Wednesday, July 12^th and Thursday, July 13^th, 2017

Where: Instructional Support Center, 15 Andrea Road, Holbrook 

Time:     8:30 am – 2:30 pm

Audience: Assistant Superintendents, Superintendents, Principals

Central Office Leaders, Assistant Principals, Aspiring Administrators

Cost: $250* per person for this 2-day Academy 

*includes a copy of You Don't Have to Be Bad to Get Better: A Leader's Guide to Improving Teacher Quality by Candi McKay

Register: http://webreg.esboces.org