Turn-Around Teacher Institute

Registration email Lizzy Campion

ecampion@buffaloschools.org

August 17-19 (1/200)

9:00-3:30

August 17 Day 1
8:30-9:00

Coffee & Conversation (optional)

9:00-9:30

Welcome & Opening Remarks

Please sign in by 9:00

Auditorium

outside Aud
Dawn DiNatale

Topic for the Day

Transformative Leadership
Dr. Carolyn Shields
In the volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous world of education today, leaders need to take an engaged,
activist, and courageous approach to help build optimistic futures for all students. Transformative Leadership
in Education presents an alternative approach to leadership for deep and equitable change. Noted scholar,
Carolyn M. Shields will present the concept of transformative leadership and its potential to create learning
environments that are just and inclusive. Dr. Shields will engage the participants in activates to have teachers
reflect on the practices that can promote academic achievement, family and community empowerment,
democratic engagement, and global citizenship.

Myth, Fairytale, and RealitySchooling for the 21st Century H&C Room

9:30-10:30

Keynote

10:30-10:40

Break

10:45-11:30

Transformative Leadership - a Way Forward? - The eight tenets of transformative

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leadership that can make a difference

11:30-12:00

Lunch

12:00-3:00

Small group interaction around selected topics.

3:00-3:30

Rm. 145

Inclusive curriculum (curriculum as conversation)

Children living in poverty
Inclusive discipline policies
Working with parents (especially bilingual parents)

Reflection

Auditorium

August 18 Day 2
8:30-9:00

Coffee & Conversation (optional)

9:00-9:15

Welcome & Opening Remarks

9:15-10:00

Keynote Speaker

10:00-10:15

Break

10:15-10:45

Core Values Exercise

Please sign in by 9:00

Auditorium

Outside Aud

Dawn DiNatale

Auditorium

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Demario Strickland

To understand individual and shared core values. To understand how core values guide your personal
vision (Teachable Point of View). This exercise challenges participants to make choices between values
and to learn about their own identities. Participants are given a list of core values as a hand out. Possible
core values may include the list attached at the end of this document.
10:45-12:00

Mt. Evert Case Study

Rm. 143

Dawn DiNatale

Participants will gain insight into different ways of leading, informed by research in the fields of
organizational behavior and social psychology as well as their own individual and collective experiences.
This session will also encourage participants to consider their own team experiences, preferences for
organizing team work, as well as their own leadership styles. This session will be a case-based discussion
and so, will allow for and encourage debate and different perspectives amongst participants.
12:00-12:45

Lunch

12:45-1:30

TAT Competencies

Rm. 143

Lizzy Campion

Improved teaching is a key lever to successful turnaround (Padilla, 2014). Yet the work required presents
varying levels of complexity and challenge because when leadership counts, when you lead people
through difficult change, you challenge what people hold deartheir daily habits, tools, loyalties and ways
of thinkingwith nothing more to offer perhaps than a possibility (Heifetz & Linsky, 2000).
This session will challenge you to identify the core competencies of an effective turnaround teacher who
seeks to bring about immediate transformation while creating sustainable systems and structures for
continuous learning. It will also challenge you to think about what turnaround teaching means for your
context and the current practices your school/district has implemented regarding recruitment, selection,
and support to ensure success in a very complex setting.
1:30-3:00

Journey Lines Exercise

Rm. 146

Angela Cullen

Teacher leadership is developed through life experiences. We think leadership is autobiographical where
every success and failure in life is a source of wisdom, but only if you allow it to be. These experiences
and your reflection upon them shape you as a leader and your leadership style. A good way to capture
these lessons is to construct what we call a leadership journey line, a line that has its highs and lows.
Developing a journey line is an opportunity for participants to look at and reflect on their life for lessons
they will use as a schoolteacher leader.
3:00-3:00

Reflection

Auditorium

August 19- Day 3

8:30-9:00

Coffee & Conversation (optional)

9:00-9:15

Welcome & Opening Remarks

9:15-10:45

Making it Safe to team

Please sign in by 9:00

Auditorium
Rm. 146

Dawn DiNatale
Ebony Bullock

Psychological safety and components necessary for successful teaming. This session will develop the
connection between developing psychological safety and developing a culture of Professional Learning
Communities. This exercise is an opportunity for teams to identify issues that complicate team learning
and performance, how to involve everyone in the task and efficiently use the skills of each member of
their team.
10:45-11:00

Break

11:00-12:00

Your True Colors

Rm. 142

Dr. Catherine Battaglia

Based on Don Lowrys True Colors model, you will discover tips for understanding, appreciating and
relating to each style. Lighthearted anecdotes convey concepts in real life situations, offering
immediately useful methods for resolving conflicts, opening lines of communication, and enhancing
personal effectiveness. Convenient reference lists and a set of color character cards are included for easy
determination of your True Colors spectrum. The end result is a celebration of the uniqueness in yourself
and others.
12:00-12:45

Lunch

12:45-2:15

Your True Colors

Rm. 142

Dr. Catherine Battaglia

Continue to discover your True Colors and understanding the true colors of your team.
2:15-3:00

Keynote Speaker

3:00-3:30

Reflection

Auditorium

Sedita Dragons
S uccess
O rientated
A chievement
R esults