Thrive24

Target Audience: Adminstrators, Teachers PK-5, Teachers 6-8 Teachers 9-12, Office Staff, Mental Health Professionals, Para Professionals, Special Educators, Specialists (Arts, Music, PE)

Intended Outcomes: Build a common definition of teaching the curriculum with integrity.

Target Audience: Adminstrators, Teachers PK-5, Teachers 6-8 Teachers 9-12

"Leading Like We Mean It" offers educators and administrators an immersive professional development experience that aligns with Newton's emerging Profile of a Graduate, providing hands-on opportunities to design meetings and PD using research-based andragogical strategies and frameworks.

Attendees will gain a comprehensive understanding of how to model the Profile of a Graduate in Newton and will leave equipped with strategies and frameworks for conducting effective meetings and professional development. They will also walk away with either an action-oriented plan to fully integrate the Profile of a Graduate into their practices or a series of incremental steps to implement throughout the year.

The training includes two optional, remote follow-up sessions in February and June to assess implementation and gauge effectiveness.

Target Audience: Administrators

Being an effective leader isn’t just about knowing the technical side of your work—it’s also about understanding yourself and human relationships. Emotional intelligence is your superpower for driving sustainable change that supports equity, collaboration, and belonging in your organization.

In this workshop, we’ll dive into how you can better understand and manage your emotions, clearly communicate your needs, and recognize how conscious and unconscious biases might affect your work and relationships. By boosting your emotional intelligence, you’ll learn how to build stronger connections and better understand the people around you, setting the stage for more impactful leadership and rewarding relationships.

Session Outcomes-Using the domains of emotional intelligence (self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship management) as a lens, participants will:
-Define your leadership vision.
-Identify the roadblocks holding you back and how to overcome them.
-Develop actionable strategies to turn your leadership vision into reality.
-Enhance your understanding of others, to create a more inclusive and equitable work environment.

Target Audience: Adminstrators, Teachers PK-5, Teachers 6-8 Teachers 9-12, Specialists (Arts, Music, PE)

What if embracing Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education (CRSE) was the key to unlocking students' full academic and personal potential? In order to combat the structural inequities at play in our current educational system which continue to marginalize students and family members based on race, social class, gender, language, sexual orientation, nationality, religion, ability, we must deepen our understanding of Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education. In this highly engaging session, participants will unpack the key principles of CRSE and explore their own cultural identity to determine how it influences our ability to enact a Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education for all students.

Objectives:
Articulate a foundational understanding of Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education (CRSE).

Develop awareness of cultural identity and how it influences our ability to provide a Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education (CRSE) for all students.

Guiding Question: Why is it important to understand our own cultural identities?

Target Audience: Adminstrators, Teachers PK-5, Teachers 6-8 Teachers 9-12, Office Staff, Mental Health Professionals, Para Professionals, Special Educators, Specialists (Arts, Music, PE)

Intended Outcomes: Build a common definition of teaching the curriculum with integrity.

Target Audience: Adminstrators, Teachers PK-5, Teachers 6-8 Teachers 9-12

"Leading Like We Mean It" offers educators and administrators an immersive professional development experience that aligns with Newton's emerging Profile of a Graduate, providing hands-on opportunities to design meetings and PD using research-based andragogical strategies and frameworks.

Attendees will gain a comprehensive understanding of how to model the Profile of a Graduate in Newton and will leave equipped with strategies and frameworks for conducting effective meetings and professional development. They will also walk away with either an action-oriented plan to fully integrate the Profile of a Graduate into their practices or a series of incremental steps to implement throughout the year.

The training includes two optional, remote follow-up sessions in February and June to assess implementation and gauge effectiveness.

Target Audience: Adminstrators, Office Staff

A brief overview of ways to use ParentSquare at the School/District level will be reviewed before launching into a working session to support administrators with ParentSquare use. Administrators will leave excited to use this powerful tool to increase two-way communication with all families.

Target Audience: Adminstrators, Aspiring Leaders

The session is intended for building level administrators and aspiring leaders. The outcomes includde:
1. Leading and managing while improving staff and student outcomes.
2. Creating strategic partners.
3. Fostering relationships that matter.

Target Audience: Adminstrators, Teachers PK-5, Teachers 6-8 Teachers 9-12, Aspiring Leaders

This session is designed BOTH for teachers interested in future roles in educational leadership and for teachers interested in serving in a leadership role without pursing administration. The session will engage teacher leaders in understanding how values drive decision-making, and use readings and exercises to teach educators strategies for mitigating bias and effecting systems-level change in collaboration with school and district leadership. Outcomes include articulation of individual values and leadership skills, identification of local equity-focused data sources and protocols to guide decision-making, and identification of opportunities for participating in systemic, equity-driven transformation efforts.

Target Audience: Administrators, Teachers 6-8 Teachers 9-12

Are you one of the people in your building pushing forward the conversation about assessment and grading? This is your chance to connect and learn with people doing similar things at other Newton schools.

Target Audience: Adminstrators, Aspiring Leaders

The session is intended for building level administrators and aspiring leaders. The outcomes includde:
1. Leading and managing while improving staff and student outcomes.
2. Creating strategic partners.
3. Fostering relationships that matter.