IASA is excited to announce a new professional development Leadership Strand, featuring a slate of virtual administrator academies designed to elevate your leadership capacity!
These academies are led by IASA Associate Director of Professional Development, Dr. Courtney Orzel, and Dr. Gary Zabilka, a former superintendent and current IASA Field Services Director with more than 40 years of experience.
Pick from one or more of the virtual academies listed below and learn how to reconnect with your why (great for superintendents and their leadership teams), discover how to help your staff be more open minded or explore what it takes to move districts from good to great.
In addition, we have included information about the current IASA Academy, Women in Leadership: Learning, Leading and Living, below. Additional dates have been added. This academy is open to female and male administrators.
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This course offers superintendents and other leaders a framework for facilitative and instructional coaching to be used with building principals and others within an administrative team to maximize administrator evaluation effectiveness and impact. The academy is subtitled “Reconnecting With Your Why,” and is intended to be a fun, inspirational and reflective experience about you and your leadership. Participants will start by learning to coach themselves to recapture their spirit and purpose in leading. This is a great academy for individuals, but it is also great for teams of administrators to sign up together as well.
When: 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the following dates:
- Tuesday, February 9, 2021
- Wednesday, April 14, 2021
- Thursday, May 27, 2021
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Student growth and learning should never be stagnant. There are always new practices and strategies that will enable students to be more engaged and learn better. However, teachers may not necessarily be quick to change their practices. How do we, as administrators, challenge and encourage teachers to be open minded to new practices and strategies for learning? Administrators have a responsibility to know and understand how to implement change so they may convey these practices to those with whom they work to be the best teachers possible for their students.
Presented by Dr. Gary Zabilka, IASA Field Services Director; Retired superintendent.
When: Tuesday, June 1; 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.
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What is the difference and what does it take to move an institution from good to great? The focus of this course is on leadership and behavioral characteristics that enable leaders to identify and accomplish their goals of moving from Good to Great. For their Application & Dissemination project, participants will complete the Good to Great Diagnostic Tool, "Where are you on your Journey from Good to Great?" This diagnostic tool will lead participants to assess themselves in leadership and their school or school district on the basis of the major tenets of the book: Disciplined People, Disciplined Thought, Disciplined Action, and Building Greatness to Last.
Presented by Dr. Gary Zabilka, IASA Field Services Director; Retired superintendent.
When: Both sessions are 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.
- Friday, January 29, 2021
- Tuesday, March 16, 2021
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Join us for an inspiring, motivating, important and FUN administrators' academy to learn about "Women in Leadership: Learning, Leading and Living!" (AA #3665). There has never been a more important time to reflect on the role of leadership as we live through a global pandemic. We know there is a disproportionate number of female leaders vs. female teachers in the field. This is a topic that is relevant to all educators -- how do we grow and support our female leaders? Leave the academy with tangible and practical ways to build your PLN, support others in the field and gain a greater sense of work-life blend.
When:
- Wednesday, March 10, 2021 - 9 am to 12 noon
- Wednesday, May 5, 2021 - 9 am to 12 noon
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Tuesday, June 15, 2021 - 9 am to 12 noon
Presented by Dr. Courtney Orzel, IASA Associate Director of Professional Development.
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