Presented by SAANYS and THE COLLEGE OF SAINT ROSE LEADERSHIP NETWORK

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Leading Now is the result of a collaboration between SAANYS and The College of Saint Rose designed to bring learning to meet the needs of our current environment to school leaders in a way that is accessible, practical, and useful. The unprecedented demands on school leaders as a result of the confluence of the pandemic, racial unrest and a struggling economy comes with a steep learning curve that calls for new ways to build skills and expertise to meet the challenges of the new school year and beyond. We believe that fellow school leader practitioners are best suited to facilitate this learning since they bring the understanding and common reference points that are essential to meeting the challenges they and their colleagues face. “The Path Forward” is the first four hour seminar in the series. We are offering this first seminar as a pilot at a greatly reduced rate ($79 instead of $149) in exchange for feedback from you that will be integral to designing the seminars that will follow in this series.  This four-hour seminar features seven segment chapters on such topics as Building Trust, Tell Your Story, Equity and Efficacy, Collaboration and Connection, and The Rallying Effect. Over the course of the seminar, you will focus on the elements of communication that educational leaders need to develop to effectively lead in a rapidly changing environment. You will analyze and assess the communication practices you used during the Covid-19 pandemic up to this point and develop a Personal Action Plan by the end of the course that is designed to use as a guiding resource that is tailored to your individual leadership role and setting going forward. You will have the opportunity to conduct a resource audit and needs assessment that will help address equity and efficacy in a distance learning environment, and identify techniques of trust, compassion, stability and hope that are vital aspects of strong communication during a crisis situation.  You can expect to devote four-hours of time to this asynchronous seminar that allows you to proceed at your own pace. The seminar features a constructivist teaching method with participants posting to interactive discussion forums. This allows you to learn from one another as well as the instructor. It also prompts you to apply the learning principles to your role and unique work environment. A Socratic questioning format that encourages deeper thinking and more personalized results is also featured. By taking this seminar, you will gain: a personalized learning network of colleagues facing similar challenges, and the insights of both the instructor, who is an active school leader himself, and those colleagues a certificate of extended study for developing leadership skills relevant to current needs and demands in the school environment upon completion of the Personal Action Plan Four-hours of CTLE Credit from certified providers