Timeline - Academy 4
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Session 1--- Personal Leadership Development (November 29, 30 and December 1, 2007) 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.
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Session 2--- State Policy and Legislative Processes (January 23, 24, 2008)
This session will be conducted in conjunction with Ohio ACTE Legislative Seminar and will focus on the role of leadership, its power and dynamics within state legislative processes. The plans for the National Policy Seminar meeting will be secured with an overview of activities that will take place in Washington DC.
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Session 3--- Ohio Economic-Education Summit (February 19, 20, 21, 2008) Columbus, Ohio
In collaboration with the Ohio Department of Education, Office of Career-Technical Education, Battelle and KnowledgeWorks, this session will demonstrates the potential power of public, private and foundation collaboration. Emphasis will be on STEM education as a means to drive statewide economic development. The final plans for the National Policy Seminar meeting will be discussed. The first SREB module training will occur.
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Session 4--- A National Policy Perspective (March 10, 11, 12, 2008) 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 be conducted as well as attending sessions facilitated by ACTE.
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Session 5--- Instructional Leadership and Student Improvement (May 1, 2, 3, 2008)
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 assist you in identifying your role in instructional leadership and how that role helps to lead change. The follow-up session for the SREB module training will be included.
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Session 6--- Accountability and Leading Reform (June 19, 20, 21, 2008)
This session will address accountability and evaluation strategies, why it is important to implement such strategies as a leader and how data should drive decisions. It will also assist you connecting your role as a leader and how that role is critical to leading change.
Distance sessions will be determined and shared at the first meeting.


