Principals & Other School Leaders

Short & Powerful Micro-Course

This course is for principals, assistant principals, senior leaders and any others in school leadership roles. We focus on the concepts of courage, time, and pattern seeking with the goal of steering the journey towards an intentional shift toward students transferring their learning to new situations. If you are brand new to conceptual learning, we recommend taking one of the micro-courses on Conceptual Transfer in elementary or the disciplines before or in addition to taking this one.
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Course curriculum

    1. Course Welcome

    2. Leading During Complexity

    3. Research Support

    4. Awareness Maximizes Impact

    5. Leadership Response Scenarios

    6. Application Time

    1. Protecting Our Most Precious Resource

    2. Stages of Concern

    3. Application Time

    1. Creativity in Culture

    2. Application Time

    3. Closing Lesson

    4. Course Feedback

About this course

  • $99.00
  • 13 lessons

Success Criteria

School leaders will:

  • Explain why education needs to evolve and point to specific research that supports a focus on conceptual transfer.

  • Self-evaluate on the warmth-expectations matrix and make a plan to develop one of the areas with more intention.

  • Compare the ways that different leadership responses create different cultures.

  • Critically analyze how teacher time is spent and come up with creative solutions to maximize teacher planning time

  • Consider innovative ways to promote pattern-seeking as a way of life in the school community.

Lead with Courage & Creativity

Create the conditions for teachers to empower students to transfer their learning to new situations.

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Bestselling Author Julie Stern

This course is based on the work of four-time, bestselling author, Julie Stern. She has two decades experience facilitating adult learning, and feels lucky to partner with educators to take their practice to the next level. She is passionate about synthesizing the best of education research into practical tools that support educators in breaking free of the industrial model of schooling and moving toward teaching and learning that promotes sustainability, equity, and well-being.
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*Price is per person. Access includes one year from purchase date. Discounts for 10 or more from the same school. Email [email protected] with questions.