Prioritizing Excellence Conference 2021

Have you ever struggled to develop teams in your classroom? Using the True Colors Personanalysis you will learn how to effectively balance your project teams to facilitate their success.

Making Your Kingdom Magical!
How would you like to integrate the principles of Walt Disney into your classroom, school, department, leadership, business, or personal life? Join me as we unpack extensive research, personal experiences, and concepts shared from professional development at The Disney Institute to enhance your journey. We will dive headfirst into how to separate from the masses, what is extraordinary leadership, designing a values based culture, and how to create a world class experience whoever and wherever you are.

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Circles have been used for centuries. Using them in the classroom will build a community, relationships and trust. They can be used with content or as a restorative practice. Attendees will learn the components of circles, how to conduct them in the classroom and how to connect to any content area. Administrators can use circles to help foster a more positive culture and climate on their campus.

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Onboarding New Students throughout the School Year Through a Customized Advisory Program: Through experience in a fast growth district with continual new enrollment, we have developed a way to quickly and intentionally integrate new students into our school culture and structures. By assigning students to a new student advisory class called Lion Link we address the social, emotional, and academic needs of transition. This 20 minutes a day provides a designated time to connect with exemplary peers who are trained experts of our campus, ask questions to receive timely responses, become familiar with digital platforms, and grow accustomed to student expectations. A Google Site with free resources will be provided to attendees.

Reaching Underserved students comes with many barriers. There are language, access, resource, engagement, academic, family, cultural challenges and many more. There are, however, some critical tenets that educators can adopt to reach some of the most isolated students.

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Circles have been used for centuries. Using them in the classroom will build a community, relationships and trust. They can be used with content or as a restorative practice. Attendees will learn the components of circles, how to conduct them in the classroom and how to connect to any content area. Administrators can use circles to help foster a more positive culture and climate on their campus.