Be the Leader You Want to Follow!
Join us for the 2nd Annual Leadership Summit. Take your admin team to the next level at this high-impact event that will set the stage for a strong start in 2023!
This 2-day professional development will provide networking opportunities between leaders, colleagues, and friends from the NCESD region as well as host keynote speakers Hasan Davis, Steve Goodman, and KC Knudson.
The event will grow your leadership capacity and that of your school or district team. You will leave energized, with tangible strategies and tools to launch 2023. Multiple breakout sessions will keep you engaged and address a full range of issues facing leaders today.
Registration is limited to 125 participants.
Keynote Presentations
Thursday, August 10 | Morning Keynote
Calling All Hope Dealers! Everyone Has a Story, Every Story Deserves Heroes
Hasan Davis, CEO & Founder of Hasan Davis Solutions
Hasan will share his experience of often interrupted transitions through education, justice, and social support systems. Simultaneously navigating learning disabilities, poverty and delinquency, Hasan seemed destined to become another statistic. But, Hasan was lucky to find that on his journey there were champions, like his mother and alternative school teacher, who found ways to engage, encourage and empower him. With the support of these “Hope Dealers,” Hasan was able to transcend his mounting list of “failures” to become an advocate for himself and eventually a champion for others experiencing difficult times.
Breakout Session
Hasan will share some of the core strategies and creative thinking that these Hope Dealers deployed to help him find the courage to complete what he calls the “JD shuffle” going from Hasan Davis, Juvenile Delinquent to Hasan Davis, Juris Doctor. Come ready to celebrate, recharge and recommit to being the Hope Dealers that you are, the Heroes their stories deserve
Thursday, August 10 | Afternoon Keynote
Role of Leadership in Promoting Effective Implementation of Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS)
Steve Goodman, PhD., Co-investigator, Integrated MTSS Research Network
MTSS is a framework beneficial to supporting each and all students as education utilizing effective practices matched to student need. This session will discuss the leadership role in promoting MTSS while ensuring that implementation is correct and consistent. Dr. Goodman will focus on the critical role that leadership plays in communicating priority for MTSS implementation, and the role of leadership in promoting fidelity of implementation.
Friday, August 11 | Keynote
Leading for Inclusion
KC Knudson, Senior Education Consultant, Novak Education
In a 1994 study, Leithwood et al found that “the problems leaders face in a school context are some of the most challenging you can find.” Earlier in 1973 Rittel and Webber described school problems as “wicked problems” being that they are difficult to define and even more difficult to solve. Over the course of the past decade the problems that leaders face in school contexts have become exponentially more complex. In this session, we will discuss how school leaders can bring clarity to the purpose of their work and to the problems that they are trying to solve. We will examine the three problems of inclusion and consider possible solutions based on evidence and the work of other school leaders across the country.