Cultivating Belonging To Retain Educators and Build Thriving Schools (Virtual)
Date:
October 31 @ 8:30 am – 3:30 pm
Price:
Instructor(s):
T. Elijah Hawkes, MSEd
Event Type:
Hybrid
Professional Learning Hours:
12
Topics:
- General Education
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- School Climate
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- Systems Thinking
Intended Audience:
K-12 teacher leaders, principals, deans, counselors, behavior interventionists, restorative justice coordinators, and district SEL and/or DEI staff. Participants can attend on their own, although teams are encouraged to participate together.
Snacks and swag are important symbols of appreciation, and staff surveys gather opinions and ideas. These traditional ways of acknowledging colleagues have their place, but they are not enough. We know that a deeper sense of adult belonging and community are essential for teacher retention and the kind of collaboration necessary for schools to improve.
Whether you are leading the work of teams, committees, or larger groups of faculty and staff, this series offers strategies to help run good meetings, foster adult community, and collaboratively solve problems of mutual concern.
Participants will:
- Understand systems and structures needed to cultivate adult belonging.
- Learn tools for leading and participating in collaborative work.
- Practice strategies that support connection and shared problem-solving among colleagues, and how this translates to the classroom.
- Design plans for implementation.
- Share lessons learned and problems of practice, and make plans for deepening work back at sites