Turning Motion into Action

Deeper Learning Pathway: Leadership

You can use the Register button to sign up for any of the upcoming live virtual sessions listed below. If the session has already occurred the recording and resources are provided.

Coaching Session 1

  • Intended Audience: Leaders, Superintendents, Administrators

  • Description: This session lays out the core tenets of habit science and the critical strategies leaders should utilize to develop clarity, coherence, and build capacity within and amongst staff and students to ensure a competency-based system is deployed, developing, and sustainable over time. MO Framework CBL Elements to be discussed:

    • 1. Students are empowered daily to make important decisions about their learning experiences, how they will create and apply knowledge, and how they will demonstrate their learning.

    • 2. Assessment is a meaningful, positive, and empowering learning experience for students that yields timely, relevant, and actionable evidence.

    • 3. Students receive timely, differentiated support based on their individual learning needs.

    • 4. Students progress based on evidence of mastery, not seat time.

    • 5. Students learn actively using different pathways and varied pacing.

    • 6. Strategies to ensure equity for all students are embedded in the culture, structure, and pedagogy of schools and education systems.

    • 7. Rigorous, common expectations for learning (knowledge, skills, and dispositions) are explicit, transparent, measurable, and transferable.

    • 8. Students engage in Real World Learning experiences that support high school, college, career and workplace readiness.

Coaching Session 2

  • Intended Audience: Leaders, Superintendents, Administrators

  • Description: This session lays out the core tenets of habit science and the critical strategies leaders should utilize to develop clarity, coherence, and build capacity within and across schools and systems to ensure a competency-based system is deployed, developing, and sustainable over time.

    • 1. Students are empowered daily to make important decisions about their learning experiences, how they will create and apply knowledge, and how they will demonstrate their learning.

    • 2. Assessment is a meaningful, positive, and empowering learning experience for students that yields timely, relevant, and actionable evidence.

    • 3. Students receive timely, differentiated support based on their individual learning needs.

    • 4. Students progress based on evidence of mastery, not seat time.

    • 5. Students learn actively using different pathways and varied pacing.

    • 6. Strategies to ensure equity for all students are embedded in the culture, structure, and pedagogy of schools and education systems.

    • 7. Rigorous, common expectations for learning (knowledge, skills, and dispositions) are explicit, transparent, measurable, and transferable.

    • 8. Students engage in Real World Learning experiences that support high school, college, career and workplace readiness.

Coaching Session 3

  • Date: June 5, 2024

  • Time: 10-12 PM

  • Intended Audience:

    Principals, Curriculum Directors

  • Location: Virtual

  • Description: This session focuses on “Situations in Need of Attention” (SITNAs) for leaders on implementing and sustaining competency based learning practices within and across the school. The session highlights recommended next steps and professional learning opportunities to meet system, school, staff, and student needs. MO Framework CBL Elements to be discussed:

    • 1. Assessment is a meaningful, positive, and empowering learning experience for students that yields timely, relevant, and actionable evidence.

Guest Expert

Michael McDowell

Michael McDowell, Ed.D.
Core Collaborative
Author Consultant

Michael McDowell, EdD was a public school educator for eighteen years serving in the roles of classroom teacher, academic and athletic coach, school principal, assistant superintendent of personnel and instruction, and superintendent. During his tenure as a superintendent, his school district received state and national accolades including the National Blue Ribbon Award which recognized their work for student performance and mental health and well-being in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic by the U.S. Department of Education.

Dr. McDowell serves on numerous boards, served as a college professor, and worked for non-profit organizations to enhance student learning around the world. Over the course of his career, Dr. McDowell has authored bestselling books, created professional learning programs and workbooks, provided keynotes and workshops, and provided practical tools and resources for thousands of teachers and leaders on almost every continent around the world. A prolific author and consultant, Dr. McDowell is recognized as one of the leading authorities on integrating innovative and impactful practices into schools. Offering keynotes and executive coaching to heads of school around the world, he partners with educational leaders to implement high leverage strategies that will enhance teaching and learning in classrooms, schools, and systems.

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