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Santa Fe Leadership Center
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November, 2009
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Greetings!
 We are excited to announce the opening of the Santa Fe Leadership Center. Our mission: Through opportunities for professional growth, lifelong learning, and renewal, the Santa Fe Leadership Center (SFLC) inspires and prepares individuals for service as outstanding school leaders. You are receiving this email because you have decided to lead and we are delighted to support you in your endeavors.
The Santa Fe Leadership Center fulfills its mission by:
- Holding several seminars a year by invitation that significantly improve leadership in schools.
- Preparing these seminars to suit the individual needs of participants.
- Keeping the focus on the individual school leader and committing to advancing that leader's career for the benefit of schools.
- Offering strategic thinking and articulation consulting to chief school leaders.
- Providing on-going leadership coaching and in-school administrative team retreats.
- Advancing shared knowledge on leadership as it is practiced in all kinds of schools.
We would like to invite you, your colleagues, administrative team members, and selected peers to the first of our 2010 Santa Fe Seminars: Deciding to Lead, which will be held April 15-18 in Santa Fe New Mexico at the historic La Fonda on the Plaza Hotel. If you have ever wondered about the rewards and costs of exercising leadership, then this is a professional growth opportunity for you.
Network with other like-minding school leaders. Gain both theoretical and practical knowledge about management and leadership. Reflect, revive and grow in beautiful Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Click here to learn more about the seminar and to register. This seminar is limited to 40 people so register early.
We hope to see you there.
Regards,
Gary Gruber, Tim McIntire and Carla Silver
The Santa Fe Leadership Center Directors
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| Deciding to Lead |
April 15-18 Exercising leadership in schools is not easy. Leaders in school today face a number of challenges including tough economic conditions, unrealistically high expectations from parents, a rapidly changing youth culture influenced by the media and technology, and the nearly impossible task of communicating with a multitude of constituents with different, and often conflicting, needs. Will you decide to lead?
Click on the link below.Learn more and Register.
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 Are you Leading a Learning Organization?
"In a learning organization, leaders are designers, stewards and teachers. They are responsible for building organizations where people continually expand their capabilities to understand complexity, clarify vision, and improve shared mental models - that is, they are responsible for learning."
Peter Senge, The Fifth Discipline
Does your school and the people in it fit this description of a learning organization? Learn more about learning organizations and how to transform your school into one or to support the learning organization in which you work at the April 2010 seminar.
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 Meet our Past Participants
Who attends Santa Fe Seminars and what have they said about their experiences?
Participants in the Santa Fe Seminars have included individuals serving in many capacities in schools and at various points in their careers and from schools all over the world.
Here are just a few of our past participants.
Classroom Teachers:
Ben Anderson, Flagstaff Arts and Leadership Academy, Flagstaff, AZ
David Arnoff, Windsor Academy, Windsor, CO
Tony Houle, Emery/Weiner Center for Jewish Education, Houston, TX
Department Chairs, Program Directors and Class Deans:
Hillary Brooks, Episcopal High School, Houston, TX (formerly)
Larry Metzger, Overlake School, Seattle, WA
Sandra O'Connor, Marlborough School, Burbank, CA
Division Heads, Deans of Faculty, Academic Deans, and Assistant Heads
Edward Farraday, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Interlochen, MI
Susan Finer, Richmond School, Norwich, VT
Hank Koransky, Brentwood School, Los Angeles, CA
Brian Morgan, Storm King School, Cornwall on Hudson, NY
Nguyet Pham, Episcopal High School, Houston, TX
Heads of Schools and Principals:
Randy Blum, Grand River Academy, Austinburg, OH
Jackie Collins, Idaho Arts Charter School, Meridan, ID
Michelle Monson, formerly of the Whitby School, Greenwich, CT
David Penberg, Benjamin Franklin International School, Barcelona, Spain
Participants have said about the seminars and the leaders:
"The leaders were erudite, charming and inspiring."
"The four leaders were like a night of cool jazz"
"Fantastic, all with diverse perspectives"
"I was constantly getting book references, good questions, ideas. . ."
"Could not have been better. A great balance of style and substance."
"I feel energized and inspired - I feel smarter (and maybe know less!) than when I came."
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About Us
We are excited to meet you. We are the Santa Fe Leadership Center team, Gary Gruber, Timothy McIntire and Carla Silver. Click here to read more about our careers and leadership experiences.
Please visit the Santa Fe Leadership Center to learn more about our programs and our other leadership services and opportunities.
Santa Fe Leadership Center
17 Camino Redondo, Placitas, NM 87043
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