Every Summer ELI offers a Summer Institute featuring Keynote Speakers as well as professional development seminars for every CSA Member. Find more information and register at our Workshops page. 

Monday, July 10, 2023 

CSA Headquarters – 40 Rector Street, 12^th Floor New York NY 10006 

DIGNITY FOR ALL STUDENTS ACT (DASA) 8:30 – 3:30 

This 6 hour workshop is open to all CSA members and meets the requirements of the harassment, bullying and discrimination prevention and intervention training required for certification/licensing under the Dignity for All Students Act (DASA). The cost of the 6 hour workshop for CSA members is $50.00 payable via a PayPal Now button at https://elipd.org/dasa/ 

Summer Institute DASA workshop will be delivered at the CSA Headquarters at Rector Street. 

Tuesday, July 11, 2023 

Fordham University, Lincoln Center Campus – 113 West 60th Street New York, NY 10023 (Corner of West 60th Street and Columbus Ave.) 

Empowering Our Multilingual Learners 8:30 – 11:30 

This workshop focuses on our multilingual learners. Through activities and discussions participants gain resources to change the mindset of their teachers by guiding them to look at the talents, spirits, and strengths of our multilingual learners. Participants explore strategies to build student autonomy, agency and resilience to help close the achievement gap. 

A Blueprint for a Positive School Environment and Mental Health 8:30 – 11:30 

A blueprint of a school environment that optimizes the way students learn, teachers teach, and the school community interacts to ensure positive outcomes for students is central to a school’s success. During this workshop, school leaders discuss school environment audits, environmental engineering ideas and assess their own school’s physical layout using a learning environment checklist. The workshop also delves into how to support students’ mental health. Development of positive mental health hinges upon norms, values, and expectations that support students feeling socially, physically, and emotionally safe. 

Special Education: A service not a placement 8:30 – 11:30 

Participants discuss the various components of special education and the historical background. Throughout the workshop participants will engage in activities to gain a better understanding of the requirements and processes. They will review MTSS services and a pre-referral form. Participants will analyze an IEP, discuss its components, and decide how it can be implemented. 

AP & EA Annual Performance Review: Completing the Annual Pedagogical Supervisory Personnel Report 8:30 – 11:30 

AP & EA Annual Performance Review: Completing the Annual Pedagogical Supervisory Personnel Report (ABC Forms) This workshop will provide guidance in completing the annual Pedagogical Supervisory Personnel Report (aka ABC forms). Participants will create specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time-bound (SMART) goals and be able to collaborate on their plans for achieving each goal. Participants will review a progress monitoring sample to track a goal and decide on artifacts that verify goal achievement. 

Wednesday July 12,2023  

Fordham University, Lincoln Center Campus – 113 West 60th Street New York, NY 10023 (Corner of West 60th Street and Columbus Ave.) 

Keynote Speaker – Dr. Kim Marshall 8:30 – 9:30 

Dr. Kim Marshall, a former Boston Public Schools teacher, principal, and central-office curriculum director, now coaches principals, gives workshops and courses on school leadership, and consults with school districts, often on rethinking teacher supervision and evaluation and curriculum unit design. He publishes the weekly Marshall Memo, www.marshallmmemo.com summarizing best practices from 60 publications, and is the author of The Best of the Marshall Memo, Books One and Two (Epigraph, 2019, 2020).” 

What Great Leaders Do Differently 10:00 – 1:00 

This workshop provides school leaders with a nuts and bolts array of attributes that successful leaders use to climb to the top performance levels. Participants understand the habits of mind that propel great leaders to think and act differently. School leaders learn to pursue the highest expectations, to persevere and actively battle negativity while retaining and retraining great teachers and collaboratively establish a culture of success, a win-win for all. 

Building a Positive School Culture 10:00 – 1:00 

As we reflect on our students and staff, school leaders need to think about the toll the past years have taken on all members of the school community. This workshop provides school leaders with the practices and protocols to improve and combat any negative conditions that may exist. Participants learn the causes of a toxic school culture. Participants explore how to incorporate positive strategies to meet challenges and lead their school forward.  

Preventing Burnout by Promoting Self-Care 10:00 – 1:00 

This workshop provides information on what helps people thrive in difficult times (like pandemics) and provides strategies to show us what we can actually do. Everyone is telling educators to put on our own oxygen masks first and this workshop makes self-care a priority using the 5Rs Framework to address burnout. 

Effective Time Management for Administrators 10:00 – 1:00 

This workshop will provide participants with an understanding of Time Management. Participants will review the nuts and bolts of time management by reflecting on their own style of management and how best to improve schedules, conversations, paperwork, emails and most importantly how they delegate. This workshop is created for all types of administrators. Don’t miss another deadline! 

Thursday, July 13, 2023 

Fordham University, Lincoln Center Campus – 113 West 60th Street New York, NY 10023 (Corner of West 60th Street and Columbus Ave.)

Trust Matters…Leadership for Successful Schools 8:30 – 11:30 

This workshop provides educational leaders with a deeper understanding of the importance of how trust can lead to school improvement. Participants explore its characteristics and discuss ways school leaders can establish trust in their school community. 

Unpacking Resources to Support ML/ELL Success in our Schools 8:30 – 11:30 

Supervisors learn about key resources that address the needs of MLs/ELLs. Throughout the workshop participants explore strategies and tools that build career readiness and support the social emotional learning of our MLs/Ells. Participants engage in reviewing strategies that ensure safe and affirming inclusion of immigrant and undocumented students in our schools. 

Leading with Emotional Intelligence & Hope 8:30 – 11:30 

Participants will explore the foundations and skills of emotional intelligence and key connections to leadership practices that promote a healthier, more equitable and compassionate society. 

Transformative Professional Development 8:30 – 11:30 

Professional Development is a transformative process in which learners are actively engaged and for which the aim is to experience and expand behaviors, beliefs and ways of being; a learning process that results in a change of practice. This workshop invites you to come to the P.A.R.T.Y. and explore the habits of transformational PD: Purpose, Audience, Routines, Technique and You.