We are excited to bring you a number of learning opportunities to support the leadership of SAI members in '18-'19!
Here are options that are currently planned for you, additional learning may be scheduled during the year.
Tuesday, Oct 9, 2018 - Fall Legal Lab
Hands-on experiences using case studies and actual events. Facilitator: Matt Carver, SAI legal services director Read more
Thursday, Oct 18, 2018 - Effective Facilitation for Productive Professional Learning and Meetings
Whether leading a PLC team, engaging an entire staff in professional learning or facilitating a meeting, every leader needs tools to maximize the productivity of the group. Come and fill your toolbox with strategies for grouping, keeping the group on-task, encouraging full participation by all members, supporting small- and whole-group interaction, moving groups to consensus, engaging in productive debate, and processing issues/ideas from multiple perspectives. Read more
Thursday, Oct 25, 2018 - Reaching and Teaching Students in Poverty: Strategies for Erasing the Opportunity Gap
In this interactive workshop we ask, “What would our strategies and initiatives for strengthening learning conditions for students experiencing poverty be if they were based, not on simplistic stereotypes, but on deep understandings of the barriers and inequities weighing on them in and out of school?" After a process of building these, we will explore instructional, relational and leadership strategies. These strategies are grounded in evidence for what works as well as a commitment to equity. Read more
Thursday, Oct 25, 2018, and Friday, Oct. 26, 2018 - Executive Leaders
Membership is open to any Iowa school superintendent who is an SAI member. The purpose of SAI Executive Leaders is to provide strategic leadership for system improvements that will result in quality educational outcomes for Iowa’s youth. Read more
Monday, Nov 12, 2018 - Becoming a Threat to Educational Inequity: An Intersectional, Transformative Approach
You will engage in a process of strengthening the knowledge and skills we need to be a threat to the existence of inequity in our spheres of influence. Using the equity literacy framework, designed to strengthen educators’ literacy related to equity, we will discuss critical principles that should drive equity initiatives and strategies and use them to analyze the initiatives and strategies being used in our classrooms, schools and districts. Read more
Thursday, Dec 6, 2018 - Building a Contagious Culture [Intentional Energetic Presence (IEP) Fundamentals*]
• Are you having the impact you want? • Do you feel the way you want? • Do people follow you because you’re the “boss” or because they want to? • Do you have the culture you want? The key to a resounding “Yes” response to these questions is in how you show up. Read more
Thursday, Jan 17, 2019, and Friday, Jan. 18, 2019 - Executive Leaders
Membership is open to any Iowa school superintendent who is an SAI member. The purpose of SAI Executive Leaders is to provide strategic leadership for system improvements that will result in quality educational outcomes for Iowa’s youth. Read more
Tuesday, Feb 12, 2019 - School Law Conference
Content is determined by Iowa administrators who serve on SAI’s Law Conference Committee. Expect a variety of timely and relevant legal topics. Read more
Thursday, Feb 21, 2019 - Building a Contagious Culture [Intentional Energetic Presence (IEP) Fundamentals*]
• Are you having the impact you want? • Do you feel the way you want? • Do people follow you because you’re the “boss” or because they want to? • Do you have the culture you want? The key to a resounding “Yes” response to these questions is in how you show up. Read more
Tuesday, Apr 9, 2019 - Spring Legal Lab
Hands-on experiences using case studies and actual events. Facilitator: Matt Carver, SAI legal services director Read more
Tuesday, Jul 30, 2019 - Pre-Conference
Wednesday, Jul 31, 2019, and Thursday, August 1, 2019 - SAI Annual Conference
