One-week courses on the topics and tactics you need:  One-week courses are included in membership for  Academic Leaders at all 2022-2023 member schools and consortium schools.

Course Previews
One-Week Courses

We’ve designed these one-week courses to help you build your skills in one of the competency areas essential for Academic Leaders. Each course is focused on a single topic, and draws on curated research in the field as well as academic expertise. As always, the design of each course includes opportunities for reflection and interaction, empowering you to boost your competency with a group of peers interested in the same issues. ​

Preparing to Lead a Mission-Aligned Curriculum Audit 
June 6​ - June 12

Objectives:
  • Develop a template to begin an internal, mission-aligned curriculum audit this summer or next year
Primary Competency Addressed:
  • Maintain integrity to mission for the academic program
​Course Description:
  • Academic Leaders will learn to do the preliminary work necessary to audit and evaluate curriculum. We’ll share frameworks that can be adapted for use in a division, department, or school internal audit. Participants will come away with a template they can use to begin a mission-driven curriculum audit this summer or next year.

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"I think what I appreciated the most was seeing what other people were saying about the curriculum work they're doing in their schools. It gives me a way to consider and plan more thoughtfully for the work I hope to do."

​Sam McCoy, Assistant Middle School Head for Curriculum & Professional Learning, Sacred Heart Greenwich

Assistant MS Head for Curriculum & Professional Learning
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Sacred Heart Greenwich

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Supporting Faculty Wellbeing Right Now
June 13​ - June 19
July 11 - July 17

Objectives:
  • Understand how a personalized approach can help leaders build a culture that supports individual wellness
  • Reflect on the needs of multiple campus constituent groups after three disrupted school years 
Primary Competency Addressed:
  • Build and support trusting relationships
​Course Description:
  • What do your faculty members need right now? In this course, Academic Leaders will learn how to support a healthy professional culture—centered around empathetic interactions—within their department, division, or whole school. Each community member’s unique set of perspectives and coping strategies are part of their professional lives, and academic leaders can take concrete steps to help each individual bring their best and authentic self to school.

Solve Your Substitute Problem
June 20​ - June 26

Objectives:
  • By the end of this course, participants will have a model for managing short-term distance learning
Primary Competency Addressed:
  • Act with intentionality
​Course Description:
  • Students don’t have to default to working on long-term projects or assignments when teachers are absent for a couple of days or a couple of weeks. In this course, learn how to apply best, inclusive practices in asynchronous learning to ensure students remain actively engaged in learning and teachers are supported. Participants will leave with a template to share with teachers or build into their Learning Management System (LMS).

Onboarding (and Keeping) New Faculty
July 11​ - July 17 [FULL]
July 18 - July 24

Objectives:
  • Create a inclusive and welcoming structure for new faculty
  • Learn onboarding practices that foster confidence.
Primary Competency Addressed:
  • Act with intentionality
​Course Description:
  • Faculty retention begins before new hires ever set foot in their classrooms. In this course, participants will learn how to weave faculty support into the onboarding process. We’ll discuss what practices to abandon, how to modify typical onboarding processes for greater impact, and how to forefront your mission and values from the beginning of a new teacher’s career.

Five Teacher Hiring Tactics to Adopt For Summer Hires
​June 6​ - June 12

Objectives:
  • Gain a better understand the current recruiting realities
  • Learn to evaluate candidates and their match to your school’s mission and values more quickly
Primary Competency Addressed:
  • Build and lead an effective team
​Course Description:
  • We’ll explore some practical and powerful tactics that Academic Leaders can implement to support their strategic hiring goals, even for unexpected summer hires. These can be enacted without radically disrupting your existing hiring process. Participants will learn how to implement these tactics and enable candidates and hiring committees to understand one another more accurately earlier in the process. Choose to implement one or more this summer!

Preparing for Your First Year in Department Leadership
​June 20​ - June 26
July 18 - July 24

Objectives:
  • Explore tools to help you transition from peer to leader while maintaining collegiality
  • Set personal goals for your approach to your first year
Primary Competency Addressed:
  • Act with intentionality
​Course Description:
  • This course is designed to help leaders new to a department leadership role in planning their approach to their first year. We’ll share strategies designed to help new leaders begin the year with confidence in themselves and their network of support. 

Preparing for Your First Year in Division Leadership
July 18 - July 24
​August 1 - August 7

Objectives:
  • Explore tools to help you transition into leadership
  • Set personal goals for your approach to your first year
Primary Competency Addressed:
  • Act with intentionality
​Course Description:
  • This course is designed to help leaders new to a divisional leadership role in planning their approach to their first year. We’ll share strategies designed to help new leaders begin the year with confidence in themselves. Participants will learn how to build a network of support.