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Enhance your conference experience. Arrive early Wednesday, and take in one of our pre-conference workshops presented by leading education experts. All workshops are EILA credit approved in three- or six-hour increments. Sign up early—space is limited!
All Day Workshop
Leader’s Role in Launching, Developing and Maintaining Professional Learning Communities
Led by Shirley Hord, this interactive session will articulate the authentic research-based definition of Professional Learning Communities (PLCs); communicate a rationale for employing PLCs in schools and districts; specify and explain five research-based components that describe a true PLC; identify strategies for launching, developing, and maintaining a PLC; and clarify the roles of leaders in guiding and supporting PLCs in schools and districts.
 Presenter: Shirley Hord, international consultant, Scholar Laureate at National Staff Development Council and author of Leading Professional Learning Communities: Voices from Research and Practice (2008)
Time: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Credit: 6 hours EILA
Cost: $150 (includes copy of Leading Professional Learning Communities: Voices from Research and Practice)
Half Day (morning) Workshop
Planning and Implementing Effective Professional Development
School leaders today are being asked to show that what they do for professional development makes a difference. Stakeholders at all levels want to know if investments in professional development result in improvement in the practices of educators and, ultimately, in the performance of students. This presentation explores factors that contribute to the effectiveness of professional development and outlines the various levels of professional development evaluation. The use and appropriate application of these levels are described, along with procedures for establishing reliable indicators of success during professional development planning. Procedures are presented for applying change research to design and implementation procedures, gathering quantitative and qualitative evidence on effects, and presenting that evidence in meaningful ways.
 Presenter: Thomas Guskey, Distinguished Service Professor and Co-Director of the Center for the Advanced Study of Assessment at Georgetown College in Georgetown, Kentucky, and well known for his work in professional development and educational change.
Time: 9 a.m. to noon
Credit: 3 hours EILA
Cost: $100 (includes copy of Evaluating Professional Development)
Half Day (afternoon) Workshop
Future Focused Leadership: Scanning the Environment, Considering a Vision, and Exploring the Qualities of Future-Focused Leaders
In this high energy, interactive session, Gary Marx will explore futures tools used by educators to stay in touch with the social environment while seeking sustainable visions for the future. The tools include trend analysis, issue analysis, gap analysis, flexibility/innovation analysis, and historical/defining moments analysis. As author of the 2006 book, Future-Focused Leadership . . . Preparing Schools, Students, and Communities for Tomorrow’s Realities, Marx shares what he has found as he constantly investigates the qualities of 21st century leaders who are capable of the ongoing process of creating a future in a global society.
 Presenter: Gary Marx, author, educator, futurist, and former AASA executive and local school administrator
Time: 1 to 4 p.m.
Credit: 3 hours EILA
Cost: $75
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