Building Level Leaders Sessions

Deeper Learning Pathway: Leadership

Session 1: Culture Trumps Strategy: Reimagining and Re-envisioning a Positive School Culture

  • Intended Audience: Building Level Leaders

  • Description: What best describes your school’s culture? Is your culture supported by all stakeholders in the community? Is it intentional and purposeful or is it segmented throughout the district and campus? A culture that is transparent, positive, and shared by all members of the school community is important to all effective educational systems. In this session, Robert works with administrators and teachers to analyze the current organizational structures and measurements to then begin the renovation process of integrating effective “next practices” that are anticipatory and adaptive to the changing times.

  • Presenter: Dr. Robert Peters

Session 2: Using Artificial Intelligence to Support Teachers and Students

  • Intended Audience: Building Level Leaders

  • Description: Artificial Intelligence can be leveraged by building leaders to create opportunities to support teachers with immediate strategies and tools that will allow them to help students complete their coursework more efficiently, which will free up more time in their nights and weekends. Teachers will be tasked to employ these strategies, resources, and tools during the academic year. This session will provide an overview of tools and strategies to use A.I. to develop lesson plans; Assessment questions; Communication with parents; IEPs; Instructional strategies.

  • Presenter: Thomas Hawkins

Session 3: Resilient School Leadership

  • Intended Audience: Building Level Leaders

  • Description: Leaders will be challenged to explore their personal resiliency intelligence and how it affects the culture of their school or district. Leaders explore how the factors of joy, empathy, trust, and vulnerability contribute to and enhance the effectiveness of their leadership practices. Leaders will also explore how resilience prepares them to support fellow educators in ways that allow them to better focus on positive student learning outcomes

  • Presenter: Dr. Felicia Turner

Guest Experts

Dr. Robert Peters

Dr. Robert Peters
Senior Vice President and Chief Academic Officer
Successful Practices Network and the Nation Dropout Prevention Center

Dr. Robert Peters is the Senior Vice President and Chief Academic Officer at Successful Practices Network and the Nation Dropout Prevention Center. He currently works with school systems to strategically plan comprehensive solutions that empower academic success. Robert strongly believes in the power of relationships and has effectively worked with educators across the United States in rural, suburban and some of the largest urban districts including Miami-Dade County and Atlanta Public Schools.

Thomas Hawkins

Tomas Hawkins
Manager of Content and Innovation
Successful Practices Network and the National Dropout Prevention Center

Thomas Hawkins is the Manager of Content and Innovation at the Successful Practices Network and the National Dropout Prevention Center, where he's worked for 5 years. Specializing in AI solutions for schools, he improves operations from the boardroom to the classroom. A Presbyterian College graduate from South Carolina, Thomas recently co-authored 'Transforming K12 Attendance: A Guide to Understanding and Addressing Student Absenteeism'."

Dr. Felicia Turner

Dr. Felicia Turner
Senior Consultant
Successful Practices Network

Dr. Felicia Turner is a Senior Consultant with the Successful Practices Network. Dr. Turner specializes in working with leaders and teachers to find innovative and sustainable ways to improve teaching, learning, and instructional practices. She has been serving urban youth as both a teacher and a leader since 1999. Felicia has presented at numerous local, regional, and international conferences. Audiences enjoy her humor and wit as she pushes boundaries and inspires teaching and learning to elevate to new heights.

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