How Middle Leaders can support colleagues affected by transition with Michael Iannini & Jane Barron

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Target Audience: Teachers Leaders that want to reduce the social and emotional impact that staff departures can have on remaining team members, as well as ensure those that are departing feel supported.

Date: Saturday, April 30, 2022
Time: 9:00 AM HKT (90 Minutes includes Q&A)
Format: Zoom Meeting (Zoom link will be sent 2 days before the event.)
Fee: Free for EARCOS Members

$100 for Non-Members. Please contact info@earcos.org to be placed on the Guest Waitlist.

Description

How all leaders, but middle leaders in particular, use their time between now and the close of the term, will greatly impact their colleagues wellbeing when they break for the Summer months. This break will be incredibly important for reinvigorating you and your colleagues’ spirit and passion for teaching when school resumes. Two and a half years on, though, the pandemic is still a great source of anxiety and will impact these holidays in a variety of ways. Our colleagues may not get the holiday they are hoping for, but middle leaders can still ensure they get some peace of mind to help them return in the new term feeling reinvigorated.

In this webinar Michael Iannini will be joined by Jane Barron, Director of Training and Consulting at Safe Passage Across Networks (SPAN), to further explore transitions-care research and best practice, providing a solid foundation for Middle Leaders as they facilitate dialogue with and amongst team members to ensure a smooth transition into the Summer break. They will focus specifically on the experience and needs of faculty that are leaving their current schools, and how this will not only impact the students that await them at their new school, but the social and emotional toll it will have on their colleagues and students they are leaving behind. Attachment research indicates that the stayers will be impacted as much (if not more) by the transition of the leavers.

Both presenters will share their experience and advice for how middle leaders can facilitate dialog with and amongst team members to ensure a smooth transition into the Summer break. Here are three areas of leadership development that will be specifically reinforced in this webinar:

Meeting Facilitation Skills: Make dialogue more purposeful and ensure equity
Communication Skills: Actively Listen and Paraphrase key points that are surfaced
Consensus Building: Make sure every meeting ends with an agreement on actions to be taken

About Michael Iannini

Michael Iannini is ACAMIS's Leadership Development Facilitator, a Search Associates Partner supporting it’s members in China to improve Recruitment, Induction and Retention of Foreign Teachers, and an affiliated Council of International School’s (CIS) consultant with the following areas of expertise:

Appraisal and Professional Development
Leadership Training
School Governance
Strategic Planning

His journey in education began 26 years ago as a research assistant at Arizona State University’s Child Development Laboratory, where he was an early years educator and researcher. Since moving to China in 1999, originally as an Early Years Teacher, Michael has advised and trained the Boards and Leadership of hundreds of International Schools across Asia. His work has helped small and large schools facilitate real strategic planning, develop leadership across the school, implement best practices for human resource management, and design staff capacity-building programs for both academic and non-academic staff.

Michael's first book, Hidden in Plain Site: Realizing the Full Potential of Middle Leaders, is the foundation for all his leadership development work. Since writing this book he launched www.middleleader.com where he is regularly posting articles on school leadership and interviews with school leadership influencers.

About Jane Barron (MEd)

Jane Barron (MEd) is an educational consultant specialising in student cross-cultural transitions. Her professional hats include educator, researcher and writer. Jane’s work is informed by a lifetime of mobility, parenting two CCKs and 29 years of teaching and consulting in both international and local schools. Committed to healthy transitions and attachment security, she has been a part of the Safe Passage Across Networks (SPAN) leadership since 2016 and is currently serving as their Director of Training and Consulting. Founder of Globally Grounded, Jane consults to schools, families and students crossing cultures, developing their understanding of the impact of cross-cultural mobility, creating programs and implementing support mechanisms to enhance learning and life. She is the lead researcher of Surveying the Landscape: Common Practices, Challenges and Opportunities in International School Transitions-Care (2020). Currently based in Sydney, Australia, Jane's writing has been published in numerous international education publications.

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