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 15, 2024
CSA Headquarters – 40 Rector Street, 12th 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.
Wednesday July 17,2024
Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts
100 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10023 (Corner of Amsterdam Ave. and West 65th Street)
Keynote Speaker – Kim Strobel 8:30 – 9:45
Kim Strobel is a renowned motivational speaker and author of Teach Happy: Small Steps to Big Joy, sought after by schools, businesses, and organizations worldwide. With her powerful message about the impact of happiness on well-being and the pursuit of fulfillment, she traverses the globe, sharing her insights. Kim specializes in empowering educators and professionals, equipping them with the necessary tools and strategies to shift their mindsets, reclaim their happiness, reignite their passion, and lead with purpose. Drawing from her extensive background as a teacher and curriculum director, Kim’s ultimate aim is to inspire her audience. Through her engaging talks, she presents captivating research, heartwarming anecdotes, and practical steps for achieving life-altering results.
Using Authentic Assessment to Assess MLLs/ELLs 10:00 – 1:00
This workshop introduces the four major areas a school leader must impact in order to see change: School Culture, Instructional Practices, Student Engagement and Community Engagement. The workshop provides a framework and the necessary tools to connect the dots from hopes and dreams to daily realities to bring about positive change that helps you get what you want out of the everyday tasks you do to make change happen.
Be an Instructional Change Leader 10:00 – 1:00
This workshop introduces the four major areas a school leader must impact in order to see change: School Culture, Instructional Practices, Student Engagement and Community Engagement. The workshop provides a framework and the necessary tools to connect the dots from hopes and dreams to daily realities to bring about positive change that helps you get what you want out of the everyday tasks you do to make change happen.
Mindful Mosaics: Pieces of Mental Awareness 10:00 – 1:00
This workshop presents educators with mindfulness as a way to prioritize mental health by fostering a supportive and nurturing school environment in which students thrive academically, socially and emotionally. Mental health and mental illness are introduced and there is the opportunity to delve into the strategies for understanding stigma and develop an awareness of the suicide warning signs. Participants learn the importance of self-care and the coping strategies that lead to positive mental fitness.
Evaluation Process for APs & EAs: Completing the Annual Pedagogical Supervisory Personnel Report 10:00 – 1:00
Evaluation instruments and procedures for assistant principals, EA’s and Supervisors Of, vary greatly within the Department of Education and within the respective Districts. Self-assessing and goal setting are key to promoting self-growth, leadership effectiveness, and to improving overall job performance. This workshop will provide guidance in completing the Annual Pedagogical Supervisory Personnel Report (aka ABC forms). Participants will learn the evaluation process, create specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time-bound (SMART) goals, review a progress monitoring system and decide on artifacts that verify goal achievement.
Thursday, July 18, 2024
Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts
100 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10023 (Corner of Amsterdam Ave. and West 65th Street)
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.
Empowering Educational Leaders 8:30 – 11:30
This workshop is designed to provide leaders with the information and skills they need to become the best leader they can be. Participants engage in activities to support them in recognizing the aspects of strategic, instructional and self- inquiry leadership strengths necessary to manage and support all constituencies in the promotion of academic excellence and achievement. Participants are challenged to ‘think outside the box’ to aspire to new heights of leadership prowess.
Encouraging Students to Become Self Directed Learners 8:30 – 11:30
This workshop focuses on helping school leaders gain a working knowledge of student autonomy. It explores the characteristics of student centered learning and student assessment. School leaders examine the difference between teacher centered and student centered learning. The workshop leads to next steps when observing student engagement and student assessment.
School Based Budgeting: How to Maximize your Money for the 2024-2025 fiscal school year 8:30 – 11:30
This workshop introduces administrators to school-based budgeting and focuses on planning and preparation for school budgets for the 2024-2025 fiscal school year. Participants will explore strategies to maximize funding and allocate resources within their school communities to establish safe, positive, and healthy environments for students and staff, and also become familiar with navigating MyGalaxy. Participants are encouraged to bring a laptop, and their school’s 2024-2025 budget.
Friday, July 19, 2024
Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts
100 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10023 (Corner of Amsterdam Ave. and West 65th Street)
Documenting for the Personnel File 8:30 – 11:30
This hands on workshop addresses the processes and procedures for successfully documenting for the personnel file of school staff members. The presentation walks school leaders through all phases of an investigation into inappropriate and/or unprofessional behavior as well as dealing with due process issues, the summons conference and how to write the disciplinary document. There is also a focus on the grievance process from the first step to arbitration.
Safeguarding Our School Communities During Unprecedented Times 8:30 – 11:30
Fundamental school safety and security responsibilities are freighted with complexity and have created an urgent need for school leaders to better prepare for possible mishaps, missteps and unwanted emergencies. Each school chronicles their safety measures in an annual Comprehensive School Safety Plan. Is it enough? This workshop asks school leaders to think outside the “safety” box. Participants will explore multitiered levels of safety supports, a spectrum that bolsters student learning and well-being, including a trauma-informed approach needed for students and staff who experienced trauma during the past years. Continuous upgrading of safety and security policies and practices with various remedies for safety infractions based on the emotional impact to students and staff who are struggling with pandemic mental health issues are addressed. Safeguarding our school communities requires care and a broader vision of safety, one that school leaders need to rethink each day.
How to Respond to Conflicts 8:30 – 11:30
This workshop provides a wide-ranging repertoire of strategies for preventing and responding to conflict. School leaders can create more peaceful environments where precious time can be spent on teaching and learning instead of distractions.
Planning for the 2024-2025 Principal Performance Observation (PPO) 8:30 – 11:30
This workshop is to provide tips to prepare for the Principal Performance Observation (PPO) using the Multidimensional Principal Performance Rubric (MPPR). Participants will have an opportunity to review tools, reflect on previous PPOs, and revamp priority statements in preparation for their next PPO.
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.
CSA Headquarters – 40 Rector Street, 12th 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.
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.
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!
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.
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