It is my first week as the Director of Professional Development of ESSDACK, a service center in Hutchinson, KS, and one of the projects I have the privilege of taking on is helping coordinate the upcoming Leadership 2.0 conference scheduled for August 3, 2012 at the Ramada Conference Center in Hutchinson. This conference is designed for superintendents, principals, lead teachers, technology directors, curriculum directors, school board members, and any other leader responsible for helping lead and manage change in a school district.
The theme of this year's Leadership 2.0 conference is engagement. A great deal of thinking about educational change as it relates to student achievement and engagement is framed in terms of preparing students for college and career, which is an essential piece to the puzzle. Another piece to the puzzle is being mindful that our youth's engagement in school is also affecting the quality of their daily lives and experiences in the present. Their level of engagement is affecting their habits. Habits to persevere. Habits to take initiative. Habits to be intellectually engaged. Habits to be life-long learners. This year's event will have sessions that help leaders learn and collaborate about ways to increase engagement in their schools.
You can find more information about Leadership 2.0 on the following website: http://leadership20conference.com/. Register today for this great day of learning and collaborating!
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