The Institute attracted over 100 leaders in the early childhood workforce and offered a unique opportunity for community based, private and public school program leaders to learn, share and problem solve effective leadership practices.
Judy Schickedanz, Ph.D., Professor Emertia, School of Education, Boston University, and member of the National Early Education Council for Jumpstart and author of Inside PreK Classrooms: A School Leader’s Guide to Effective Instruction
Catherine Marchant, Teacher, educator, instructional coach and consultant for schools and districts and co-author of Inside PreK Classrooms: A School Leader’s Guide to Effective Instruction
Courtney Williams, Co-founder and CEO of TORSH, an educational software company that provides a video observation platform used for teacher development
Jason Sachs, Executive Director, Early Childhood Education at Boston Public Schools
Amy O’Leary, Director of Early Education for All, a campaign of Strategies for Children and President of NAEYC
Ruben Carmona, Principal, Abraham Lincoln Elementary School, Lowell MA
The Institute offered CEUs and PDPs, and featured sessions on topics to promote instructional leadership capacity, explore high quality practices, support making inclusion work and on the power of reflective practices, including:
Measuring and Promoting High Quality
Setting the Stage for Effective Teaching
Providing High Quality Inclusive Practices
Role of Technology in Developing the EC Workforce
Supporting Strong Early Educational Programming Preschool to Second Grade
The What and How of Instructional Leadership
Providing Services through the Lens of Trauma
Reflective Practices and Self-Care for Leaders
The Leader as Coach
Collaboration with Others to Meet Needs of DLL Children and Families