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This Two-Day Seminar is where Practical meets Brain-Based in a synthesis of strategies designed to meet the needs of Leadership Teams. 
Based on Randy's books Differentiated Leadership- Leadership for the Whole School, Get Fit!  The Personal Trainer for Academic Teams and iSAPs Individual Student Assistance Plans - - The Owner's Manual for Student Success as well as Randy’s other books and trainings, this seminar is designed for members of High School and Middle School Leadership Teams.
This is one of the few Seminars that will actually impact your school in many positive ways.  We all know that leadership is a contact sport!  This Seminar will enable school leaders to make every contact positive and productive!
This is a “roll up your sleeves and get to work” kind of seminar!  The Focus of the Two-Day Differentiated Leadership Seminar will be on Practical Strategies to help leaders put the latest brain research into practice when working with school staffs, parents, students and the community. 
This Leadership Seminar is designed for everyone on the Leadership Team.
 Please note that this two-day seminar is best suited for groups of Leadership Team members.  While individual Leaders would benefit from this Seminar, the benefits increase greatly with the number of leaders from your school that attends.  A team can brainstorm and synthesize how the practical strategies shared can best impact their school or district situation from more than one point of view!  We will be looking at developing more sophisticated and productive levels of collaboration among staff members and those in positions of leadership.  Interactive strategies and methods will be shared for your leadership team to consider in areas such as proactive student management-discipline, curriculum development, scheduling techniques, and motivating staff, along with all of the other topics listed in this brochure.
 Therefore, it will be beneficial for a school or district to have a leadership team attend that would include people to represent all of the various curriculum areas (It is important to include exploratory/elective.)
       Principals                          Assistant Principals                      Deans                       Curriculum Leader
      Counselors                         Teacher Leaders                          Department Leaders  Team Leaders
      Instructional Leaders          Members of the School ImprovementCommittee,etc.
     All District Level Personnel Involved Directly With Schools and People Interested in Leadership
 
(Note:  It is important that each Leadership Team schedule at least one day to meet as a follow-up to this seminar to process the information, activities and strategies they learn during this seminar.  There will be discussion time during the seminar, but at least one follow-up meeting will be needed for each Leadership Team to plan moving forward.  A planning format will be shared during the seminar to help guide this follow-up meeting.)
Materials Each Leadership Team Should Bring to the Seminar
Each School Should Bring:
  • Several Sample Disciplinary Referrals (with names deleted)
  • Current Discipline Data
  • The Current Master Schedule
  • Bring any Proposed Schedules as well
  • Course Outlines for the Courses Offered At One of the Grade Levels
  • Detailed Curriculum Guides are Not Necessary
  • Only the Course Outlines with the Major Topics Covered are needed
  • Be Sure to Include the Exploratory/Elective Course Outlines
  • Laptops are Welcomed and Encouraged
  • Bring your flash-drives as you may want to exchange information, etc
  • Participants will use the referrals and the discipline data as they learn about pro-active and interactive systems to dramatically reduce discipline referrals. 
  • Scheduling options will be shared for Leadership Teams to consider in relation to their own schedules. 
  • Participants will use the course outlines as they learn about a simple adaptation to the curriculum mapping process which will enable spiraling and threading standards, skills, assessment items, instructional materials, activities and projects across all curriculum areas.  You will see how to raise test scores with an easy to utilize interdisciplinary approach to curriculum development that does not require teams or academies.  These systems will make it easy to develop interdisciplinary project-based curriculums and curriculum-based business partnerships.
Topics for the Two-Day Differentiated Leadership Seminar
 
 The topics will be based on the books Differentiated Leadership-Leadership for the Whole School and Get Fit!  The Personal Trainer for Academic Teams, as well as Randy’s other trainings and books.  The topics for the seminar will include:
 
Ø  The Involvement Model of Change for Facilitating the Continual Improvement Required for Meeting AYP's
Ø  School Performance Management Systems
Ø  Leading Academic Teams/Academies to be even more Productive
Ø  Student Management- -Pro-Active Strategies to Dramatically Reduce Discipline Referrals
Ø  Master Schedules to Promote Differentiated Instruction and Assessment
Ø  Brain-Based Strategies to Motivate all staff and for Dealing with Difficult Staff
Ø  Facilitating Differentiated Curriculum Development to Motivate Students and Raise Test Scores
Ø  Group Dynamics- -Learn to Diagnose Issues and Prescribe Solutions to Group Problems
Ø  Community and Business Involvement
Ø  Differentiated Staff Meetings to Engage and Motivate Every Staff Member
Ø  Advisory/Advocacy
Ø  Inclusion
 
Sample Seminar Agenda Each Day
Working Session One:  7:30am- 9:00am
Refreshment Break
Working Session Two:  9:15am- 11:00am
Lunch (on your own):  11:00am-12:00pm
Working Session Three:  12:15pm-1:45pm
Refreshment Break
Working Session Four:  2:00pm-3:30pm
Great Value!
With the serious budget difficulties districts are facing, this Two-Day Differentiated Leadership Seminar is the most reasonable and cost-effective Leadership Seminar available.  Also, Check out the Training Options page for cost-effective ways to bring this and the other trainings to your school or district. 
(Some leadership seminars are charging as much as $869 per individual person, and are located in very expensive resorts requiring large travel expenses.)
Schools can Train an entire Leadership Team for less than the cost of sending just two administrators to any other leadership training.
 
                          Contact Randy at diffleadership@progdigy.net for costs and locations.
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Trainer Training
 
Randy will also train “Trainers” to conduct the Differentiated Leadership Seminars for a District.  These Trainers will have permission to use Randy’s materials and will be able to provide any follow-up training an individual school might want after their initial two-day Differentiated Leadership Seminar conducted by the Trainer.  Email Randy at diffleadership@prodigy.net for more information.  The Trainer workshops are four much more intensive days.

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