Leadership is a Contact Sport! Based on Randy Thompson's book Differentiated Leadership, this workshop will demonstrate how to make every adult in your system a leader. Participants will learn how to dramatically reduce discipline referrals, develop meaningful curricula that will motivate students (and teachers), create flexible schedules, identify and solve group issues, facilitate change, create motivating staff meetings, and much more. Participants will also learn, in their roles as leaders in schools, about interactive, brain-based management systems which enable and require positive and productive interactions, while disabling interactions that are negative and counterproductive.
In Randy's own words, "Leading change in schools has been compared to trying to change the tires on a car while it's moving. To me it is more like trying to nail Jell-O to a tree! Many good administrators have been undone by bad systems within their buildings. In this session we will look at how to use brain-based strategies to facilitate change in schools, simplify your life and enhance your school. We will look at how to assess your systems, how to get ownership with your staff, and how to keep things simple. Whatever your leadership role, strategies will be shared to help the leaders become a more effective Leadership Team, and every staff member a better leader.
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