Leadership for Highly Effective Teaching

The Center for Effective Learning offers Three Days of dedicated training for assisting Leadership and Administrative Teams. We acknowledge that navigating any significant change effectively requires responsive leadership. Reform and improvement effort that is sustainable over time calls on school leaders to understand how to apply current brain research to the adult learner and utilize lessons from the neuroscience research on emotion and experience. This exceptional conference assists administrators in creating the context for sustainable reform.

Dr. Robert Sylwester tells us that “Cognitive neuroscience developments are rapidly moving education toward a major transformation in policy and practice.” The Leadership Training Conference specifically addresses what a principal, administrator, and others in leadership roles must understand to best support teachers on their journey toward Highly Effective Teaching. You will work with tools designed to help you reflect on your own experiences as you engage in dialog with other committed educators. Networking and collaboration are always encouraged.

Leadership Training content and focus:

• Increasing student achievement through the development and use of bodybrain-compatible strategies
• Discovering what it means to create a bodybrain-compatible school or district
• The Highly Effective Teaching (HET) Model and RTI, NCLB, and other initiatives
• Establishing the connection between state standards and conceptual curriculum
• Reaching toward educational excellence and systemic change

• Increasing community (and parent) involvement
• Support for Differentiated instruction
• Long range HET Planning and support for sustainability
• Developing powerful school and teacher networks

We work with administrative teams and districts to provide high-quality professional development to ensure that the school delivers quality instruction resulting in high levels of student learning and mastery. This is accomplished by establishing the optimal conditions for learning in a respectful environment which implements effective curriculum that is rigorous, embedded with educational standards, and driven by formative assessment. We acknowledge that each school is unique and requires customized services to build an effective educational environment.