CESA 6 - National Speakers

CESA 6 provides high quality workshops and trainings, webinars and courses all year long. Explore our full range of professional development opportunities. Single-day, multi-day and multi-sectional conferences and academies dive deep into current education topics. Attendees gain immediate access to best practice, leading experts and regional networking opportunities.

Thomas Levine:

Overcome Professional Learning Community Challenges

March 11, 2021 - 8:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) can get stuck and encounter obstacles or plateau as a result of five common challenges: incoherence, insularity, unequal participation, congeniality, and privacy. Thomas will describe for us how these five challenges play out in schools. He will facilitate discussion to help leaders reflect on these challenges and provide strategies to address them in your own PLCs. Topics will include coherence and follow-through; overcoming insularity to ensure new input; ensuring equal participation and maximal learning; moving past congeniality; and, de-privatizing practice.

Modality: online

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Katherine Casey Spengler:

Eight Ways to Study Instruction

May 11, 2021 - 8:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

Katherine Casey Spengler will offer you eight ways to study instruction with your teachers. She will dig into the strategies that are vital to successful coaching and that will broaden your coaching repertoire. Katherine will help you visualize each kind of activity; include the rationale and guiding questions for each to help make decision making transparent; and, offer examples of how other coaches use these ways with their teachers. The question is, what makes sense for your work?