Dr. Peter DeWitt
In this session, Peter DeWitt, Ed.D. engages the audience in the program logic model approach to school improvement using the session breakout topics as the catalyst for the conversation. Why? Because the conference topics can often be seen as controversial, and too often when something is deemed as controversial leaders will stay away from it because they’re insecure about upsetting their school community. Are You Activity Rich and Impact Poor will focus on how districts can use the topics to have the greatest impact on students.
Session Outcomes
Participants will learn:
• Why credibility plays an important part in our ability to be instructional leaders
• The importance of implementation using a program logic model
• The research around student engagement that leads to alienation, and what we can do about it. Research shows that students feel alienated from school based on two factors, which are a lack of connection to their school community and a lack of a voice in their own learning. We will focus on how to hear students, and use that to guide our leadership practices
• The role of efficacy in leadership practices. Whether it’s self-efficacy, leader self-efficacy or collective leader efficacy, we will focus on using the research to guide our discussions of learning, race and student engagement to help defy the myths behind them
• How to collect evidence of impact
• How to engage in reflective practices to help them understand how instructional leadership plays a part in their roles in school by using a framework for learning which will be provided to them during the session