Virginia Tech School Leaders Institute (VSLI)

---

(From the VT School Leaders Institute: Recently Appointed Administrators website) 

Registration is open and due by August 4, 2024.

DON'T WAIT!  Once the cohort is full registration is over. You can contact them to be added to the wait list. 

School administrators are expected to demonstrate a high level of excellence in every area of education, providing great leadership, communicating effectively, making strategic decisions, and building relationships with diverse stakeholders. RAA offers new school administrators multiple, hands-on opportunities to expand and refine existing skills and to sharpen decision-making abilities. The program focuses on exploring methods to transcend challenges faced by educators working to ensure student success. Program faculty will offer multiple perspectives on effective leadership while highlighting the value of coaching and mentoring and the importance of maintaining balance between personal and professional life.

An engaging, motivating and empowering program, participants will:

• Understand the importance of building relationships
• Strengthen communication skills
• Develop awareness of best practices for social and media communication
• Gain perspective on ensuring a culture of safety
• Explore leadership standards
• Learn strategies for building the instructional capacity of school personnel
• Practice analyzing data for meaning and change
• Develop strategies for establishing and maintaining a work/life balance

Taught in four cohort sessions, learning will be facilitated through subject area experts, readings, small group discussions, role play, and voice of experience conversations with current and retired administrators and superintendents. Each participant will be charged with identifying and interacting with a mentor/coach. Final products will include a personal vision statement and a reflective journal synopsis based on their total program experience that identifies new awareness of their roll and the application of what has been learned. Contact hours that may be applied to recertificate will be awarded upon completion of the program and assignments. 

 For detailed info about RAA please see our website for more information. Click on the FIND OUT MORE BUTTON above. The registration fee for WVPEC members is $4400, a $400 discount from the standard fee for all others which is $4800. There are four workshops held at the Hotel Roanoke & Conference Center.

Click on FIND OUT MORE to go to the website.

 (From the VT School Leaders Institute: Aspiring Superintendents Program (ASP)

Registration deadline is December 15, 2023 - Early Bird Prices in effect until November 1, 2023.

DON'T WAIT!  Once the cohort is full registration is done.  Sometimes you can get on the Wait List, but no guarantees you will get in.  Consortium Members - inquire about a discount.

Offered by the Virginia Tech Center for Organizational and Technological Advancement (COTA), in partnership with the Virginia Association of School Superintendents (VASS) and the Virginia Tech School of Education, this program focuses on exploring and developing the relevant skills, knowledge and commitment needed to succeed as a superintendent. Emphasis is placed on providing a realistic overview of the complexity of the superintendent role. Program faculty will offer multiple perspectives on effective leadership and highlight the value of coaching and mentoring as an important link between academic and practical preparation for the job.

An intensive, interactive and results-oriented program, ASP participants will:

• Increase awareness of the importance of building and nurturing relationships and effective communication with diverse constituencies.
• Expand and refine existing leadership capacity and acquire new skills.
• Understand the search and interview process, conducting contract negotiations, and entry planning.
• Examine standards of professional ethics for superintendents.
• Demonstrate ethical leadership.

 Learning will be facilitated through readings, small group discussions; voice of experience conversations with seated and retired superintendents; simulations; mock interviews; and analyses of case studies. Each participant will be charged with identifying and interacting with a mentor/coach. Final products will include an entry plan for the first 90 days on the job as a superintendent and a reflective journal synopsis based on their total program experience that identifies new awareness of the superintendent’s role and the application of what has been learned. Contact hours that may be applied to recertification will be awarded upon completion of the program and assignments.   

Click on FIND OUT MORE to go to the website