Undertake a transformative journey to improve learner outcomes, identify inclusive practices, and model inclusive design using technology.
Dates: TBA
Location: TBA
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What is the Inclusive Leaders Academy?
Inclusive practices lead to better outcomes for everyone involved. This academy is intended for educational leaders and teams dedicated to meeting the needs of all learners, especially the most vulnerable. Join the authors of Inclusive Learning 365: Edtech Strategies for Every Day of the Year as we undertake a transformative journey to change mindsets, identify inclusive practices that consider learner variability, and model instructional design using technology. Work collaboratively to develop a system-wide, practical approach to inclusive practices specific to your organization that improve learner performance. Leave with skills and an action plan for how your team will change education environments and experiences so no learner is excluded.
The updated National Educational Technology Plan has been released, and the US DOE has outlined three areas of digital divide (Use, Design, and Access) that impact learners’ success. Is your school equipped to meet learners’ needs and transform education? Complete the Inclusive Leader Academy to gain the knowledge and skills necessary to meet these challenges and create learning environments that foster success and improved performance outcomes.
Who Should Attend
Any educator desiring to lead the charge where no learner is excluded. At the Inclusive Leaders Academy, we believe that titles don’t define leaders; actions define leaders! Anyone can join this learning journey.
We strongly encourage participants to attend in teams to build a more complete action plan to move your organization towards exceptional educational practices.
Examples include:
- Curriculum Chairs
- Literacy Coaches
- STEM Coordinators
- Department Chairs
- Inclusion Facilitators
- Edtech Coaches
- District Leaders
- Administrators
- Instructional Specialists
- Professional Development Coaches
- Classroom Teachers as leaders in training
- School Leadership Teams
Goals of the Inclusive Leaders Academy
At the conclusion of the academy, participants will:
- Be equipped and empowered to lead change in their organization with a wealth of resources and a personalized action plan specific to their practice.
- Improve learner outcomes by designing inclusive learning experiences
- Identify obstacles to implementation and develop a plan of action to address and overcome the obstacles that interfere with inclusive design in their organization
- Start a movement with additional stakeholders in their district or organization to ensure effective inclusive leadership practice implementation
- Change exclusionary practices that need to be unlearned and replaced as part of the action plan
- Cultivate a coaching philosophy that breaks down education silos and creates an inclusive learning movement in their schools
- Reduce out-of-district placements by creating an inclusive culture that meets the needs of every learner
Two Day Agenda
Each day will be infused with learning about inclusive strategies and technology supports, along with opportunities for personal reflection and goal-setting focused on inclusive design.
Day 1
Topics for Day 1 will include:
- Creating a shared vision of an inclusive future
- What could education look like in your school?
- Effective instructional methods
- Designing learner-centered experiences
- Instructional Design Audit
- Identifying your leadership goals
- Inclusive Education Implementation Guide
- Building an inclusive infrastructure
Day 2
Topics for Day 2 will include:
- Busting Barriers
- Removing educational silos
- Strategies to support inclusive learning, teaching and assessment
- Leading Change
- Effective instructional coaching
- Adult Learning Theory
- Starting your inclusive movement
- Developing an inclusive leadership action plan
- Transition to inclusive practice via iterative steps
- Model for managing complex change
Who are your facilitators?
The Inclusive Leaders Academy will be led by the authors of the book Inclusive Learning 365: Edtech Strategies for Every Day of the Year. The I365 Team comes from a variety of backgrounds, but we are all educators! We have over 120 combined years of experience providing inclusive services to school-based teams. We have partnered and collaborated with local school-based teams, regional educational support agencies, and state Departments of Education.
Throughout our work with these various entities, one factor has remained constant: our drive to ensure that every learner, regardless of learning variabilities, has the opportunity to experience success! Our team has a deep belief in the coaching model and demonstrates that in our work. Whether we are working one-on-one with a learner or educator to develop and deliver professional learning experiences or working with large teams or organizations – we walk the walk. We will be alongside you throughout the Inclusive Leaders Academy and have made it our mission to ensure that you leave with a powerful, thoughtful, comprehensive action plan to infuse inclusive strategies and technologies into your setting to facilitate learner success and independence.
We are excited to partner with you.
Want to learn more about each of us? Visit our I 365 Team page.
2024 ILA: May 30 – May 31, 2024, The Wylie Center, Beverly MA
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