The former Cape Verdean President would be the main Speaker for the 6th edition of the Africa Leadership Lectures, initiated by UDS to contribute to a national and transnational discourse on
productive leadership culture to support and enhance African Development.
Not exact matches
Key focus areas of the workshop will include: • Recognizing and understanding
leadership in a science setting • Using negotiation as a tool in scientific discussions and problem solving • Identifying and resolving conflicts in the lab • Dealing with difficult people and situations in a scientific setting • Communicating your ideas and plans in a way that engages others • Leading
productive scientific team and project meetings • Setting goals for and giving useful feedback to scientists • Creating a positive lab
culture • Identifying, interviewing and hiring the best scientists for your team.
Strong
leadership, respect for authority, and perception of fairness are essential to create a positive,
productive school
culture.
Through a holistic approach to the challenges of
leadership, it provides strategies to achieve a balance between tackling the many issues faced: from adapting to change to fostering a
productive school
culture to finding a vision that will guide the school for years to come.
Where teacher
leadership evolves strategically (planned and aligned with school goals), a self - sustaining
culture can become both collaborative and
productive.
While we identify and help staff fully implement evidence - based
leadership practices, we also work to develop strong collaborative relationship and create
productive cultures.
It prepares district and school administrators and / or
leadership teams to: • Make data actionable and competency - based • Use data to bring coherence across improvement initiatives & maximize their impact • Build a system - wide
culture of data - literacy and student - focused teaching and learning • Create capacity to collect evidence needed to validate successful implementation and gauge impact on achievement Leaders will learn what it takes to initiate, support, and sustain the meaningful and
productive use of data throughout an organization — with an emphasis on how to support teachers» use of data.
Explicitly writing into the plan the need for creating a strong
culture and climate, which «emphasizes environment and supports needed for the sustainability of a safe school where
productive work can occur (e.g., data competency, resource management, building
leadership capacity, cultural awareness, communication strategies, professional learning communities, Universal Design for Learning, social and emotional learning).»
Four decades of research by such familiar names as Boyer, DiMartino, DuFour, Fullan, Goodlad, Guskey, Marzano, Reeves, Schmoker, Sizer, Wiggins, and others tells us a lot about how high school students learn, about good teaching, about effective
leadership, about positive school
cultures, and about the working conditions under which teachers are the most
productive.