RAPSA - SIATech Fall Leadership

SIATech Fall Leadership

What Leaders Need to Know About Social Media

Facilitators:

Linda Leigh, SIATech Director of Public Information and Communications

Lin Miller, SIATech Executive Director of Personnel Support Services

Description:

Social media are online spaces for sharing information, building awareness, and creating connections. Social media like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and more, will continue to be important forums for our students, staff, and communities. As educational leaders, what do we need to know about social media? This general session will introduce the basics of social media. Table talks will address controversial topics regarding social media in grassroots activism, social media in education, social media in politics, and social media in interpersonal relations. Adriana Meneses, a graduate of SIATech at San Diego Job Corps and SIATech San Diego, will provide a student perspective on social media. Lin Miller will discuss how leaders can implement employee guidelines for social media. Participants will reflect at their tables on how they will create and implement a personal and/or team action plan for social media.

Cross-Organizational Professional Learning Communities

Session Facilitator: David Gerber, SIATech Tucson

Description: Professional Learning Communities (PLC’s) provide educators the opportunity to develop knowledge about their craft within the context of their own setting through interaction with their peers. Providing this structure across multiple organizations poses unique challenges that can prove highly rewarding.

Intended Learning Outcomes: In addition to the potential opportunities this professional development structure presents, participants in this session will understand: 1) how to develop interest in a PLC structure, 2) how to focus PLC direction, 3) how to support PLC’s through sustainability structures, and 4) how to support Cross-Organizational PLC’s with planning and participant recognition leveraged with technology.

Governance

Session Facilitators:

Dr. Linda C. Dawson, SIATech CEO / Superintendent
Gregory Moser, Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP
Tom Boobar, Arthur J. Gallagher Risk Management Services & Insurance Brokers of CA, Inc.

Description:

Charter and public nonprofit board governance is changing all the time. New laws affecting charter schools and board governance on a national and state level will be discussed. Advocacy efforts will be presented and a panel of experts will discuss specific state initiatives and topics of interest to charter school board members as well as public nonprofit board members. Specific board member responsibilities will be presented and discussed along with how to interact effectively with staff and ask good questions.

Teaching Reading Across the Curriculum: Empowering Struggling Readers

Session Facilitator: Andrea Loring, SIATech Homestead

Description: This session will examine effective methods and programs for increasing literacy for all stakeholders in the SIATech student body. Some of the instructional challenges that will be addressed include infusion of reading instruction in classrooms where teachers are not reading specialists, working within the time demands for students to complete the curriculum, and addressing multiple student learning styles and ability levels.

Intended Learning Outcomes: Participants will become familiar with the description, course objectives, materials, lesson format, and pedagogical foundation of Reading with USA Today, and with how to schedule the program into the SIATech curriculum and train non-reading teachers.

Participants will examine a model for collaborative staff planning designed to capture the expertise and enthusiasm of the school staff when developing school initiatives and programming including school-wide reading programs.

Capitol Ideas-How SIATech Influences Education Policy

Session Facilitators:

Ernie Silva (California SIATech Staff)
Gerry Baumann (Arizona SIATech Staff)
Erik Bose (New Mexico SIATech Staff)
Mary Chambers (Florida Consultant)
Kris Mallory (Arkansas SIATech Staff)
Rick Clark (D.C. Consultant)

Description:

SIATech staff and consultants work hard to shape State and Federal education policy. This presentation will describe how the work we do at SIATech influences governmental decisions. The panel will describe different approaches that are being used across the country in hopes that we continue to learn from each other and increase SIATech’s influence on education policy.
Discussion Topics:
• Methods of Outreach to State and Federal Policy Makers
• Successful Coalition Building
• Outcomes of 2010 - 2011 Advocacy
• Opportunities for 2011 - 2012

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