Timeline - Academy 2 (August 2005 - April 2006)

Application Deadline

• June 15, 2005

Face-to-Face Activities

• Session 1: Leadership and Networking (August 4 - 5, 2005) Cincinnati, Ohio

  This session will focus on communication, the importance of communication and leadership, and provide strategies for bringing out the best in others. The participants will have an opportunity to meet with Academy 1 participants. Academy participants will also attend the Ohio ACTE summer conference.

• Session 2: Personal Leadership Development (Evening Dinner on Sept. 29 - Noon on October 1, 2005) University Plaza, Columbus, Ohio

  This session will provide an overview of the academy experience as well as components and assignments. The content will focus on leadership skills and styles as well as the importance of the leader's role. Each participant will begin to construct a leadership plan which will be used throughout the experience.

• Session 3: State Policy and Legislative Processes (Tentative: Evening Dinner on January 24 - Evening Dinner on January 26, 2006) Columbus, Ohio

  This session will be conducted in conjunction with Ohio ACTE Legislative Seminar and will focus on the role of leadership, its power and dynamics with in state legislative process. The initial plans for the National Policy Seminar meeting will also be discussed.

• Session 4: Policy and Leadership (Tentative: Evening Dinner on February 20 - Evening Dinner on February 22, 2006) Columbus, Ohio

  In collaboration with the Ohio Department of Education, Office of Career-Technical Education, this session will focus on the current issues in CTAE. The complex context of education will be analyzed and how that context influences leadership behaviors in various settings to accomplish tasks and attain goals. The final plans for the National Policy Seminar meeting will be discussed with an overview of activities that will take place in Washington DC.

• Session 5: A National Policy Perspective (Tentative: March 5 - 8, 2006) Washington, DC

  Congressional Visits at the ACTE National Policy Seminar will take place to discuss current issues facing career-technical and adult education. Interviews with respective members of Congress will take place as well as attending sessions conducted by ACTE.

• Session 6: Instructional Leadership and Leading Reform (Afternoon on April 27 - Noon on April 29, 2006) University Plaza, Columbus, Ohio

  Instructional Leadership encompasses those actions that a leader takes, or delegates to others, to promote growth in student learning and comprises the following tasks: defining the purpose of schooling; setting school-wide goals; providing the resources needed for learning to occur; supervising and evaluating instructors; coordinating staff development programs; and creating collegial relationships with and among faculty and staff. This session will illustrate the essential connection of collaboration and strong leadership. How does a leader facilitate internal and external collaborations that will strengthen CTAE? What are the strategic collaborations that assist in the reform and change efforts? This will assist you in identifying your role in instructional leadership and how that role helps to lead change. It will also address accountability and evaluation strategies, why it is important to implement such strategies as a leader and how data should drive decisions.

Online Activities

The timelines for online activities will be posted as they become available.