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    • Dr. Avis Glaze - Session Info

    Leading Change

    Students today must be given the knowledge, skills, attitudes and dispositions to think critically, feel deeply and act wisely and ethically. Dr Avis Glaze will discuss future trends that will impact education and discuss the 21st century skills and key purposes for which educational leaders and policy makers are preparing students. She will emphasize the need for leadership and instructional effectiveness to ensure that all students learn and succeed, regardless of background or personal circumstances. Within this context, she will deconstruct the issue of what it means to lead change and what this looks like in districts, schools and classrooms. She will propose some key imperatives for leadership in times of uncertainty, challenge and change, emphasizing the opportunities these provide. She will demonstrate that this is, indeed, the Golden Age of education and encourage leaders to lead with confidence, passion, optimism and an unrelenting resolve to ensure excellence with equity.

    1. Leading Change
    • Leading change: what does this look like
    • Historical perspective on leadership: how leadership has changed over the last 50 years
    • Characteristics of effective leaders
    1. Future trends and their impact on education
    • The trends that will impact education
    • 21st century skills
    • Implications for principals, teachers, education leaders and policy makers
    1. Leaders for 21st Century schools
    • Leadership is second only to instruction in improving achievement
    • School leaders today require new skills to meet the demands of the 21st century
    • The skills that need to work effectively with the media, parents and community
    • (political, public relations, media relations skills)
    • The need to influence public attitudes on a range of issues – funding, technology, capacity building, etc
    • The need for advocacy skills
    • Leadership development must become a priority in school district
    1. How leaders can foster achievement for ALL students, regardless of background factors
    • The need disaggregate data to identify groups for specific interventions
    • Raising the bar and closing the gaps
    • The high impact strategies to improve learning and achievement
    • Ensuring equity and inclusiveness within the context of diversity
    1. Student engagement and resiliency
    • Strategies to foster student engagement and resiliency
    • Strategies to expand voice and choice
    • How to motivate students
    • Can we provide a graduation guarantee?
    1. Providing leadership for character development
    • Finding common ground in diverse communities
    • Strategies to embed character education
    1. Community engagement
    • Strategies to engage parents and community to support learning
    • Improving public confidence in public education
    • Managing public relations effectively
    1. Institutionalizing and sustaining change: a matter of leadership
    • The need to ensure embed change within the organization
    • Creating schools that work effectively
    • There can be no "throw away kids."
    • Building upon our successes, soaring to new heights
    • Leadership today: what a privilege!