Giving and receiving feedback to promote growth is a necessary and helpful tool in all professions—especially in education. However, offering honest feedback—as well as receiving it— can often be an uncomfortable and difficult process.

In this webinar, Dr. Polly Parker (ISM Consultant and Executive Coach) will discuss the ways in which feedback can be used to strengthen your school community. Explore ways that school leaders can reflect on what their teams are saying to them from various lenses of listening and care.

Teachers don’t like meetings that feel like a long, dull list of announcements. And leaders dread meetings where teachers have their heads in their grade books and do not engage. As a result, these gatherings often earn a negative reputation and become a missed opportunity for professional learning and faculty collaboration.

Now more than ever, navigating difficult conversations is a critical skill for school leaders, given the deeply personal nature of working with families and teachers. Often, school leaders avoid challenging conversations or feel they are not equipped to handle them effectively.

Whether you feel confident conducting difficult conversations or not, join this informative webinar to learn how to manage these situations. Examine the research that explains why these discussions matter to your entire school community, and discover how to use actionable strategies.

Department chairs are best positioned to be the actual curriculum leaders in your K–12 private-independent school, yet few schools have empowered them to do this important work.

Thousands of student surveys and interviews indicate that teacher enthusiasm and passion play a key role in student satisfaction and success in school. In an era of teacher shortages, burnout, and change fatigue, your faculty need more support than ever to sustain the passion and enthusiasm that brought them to be educators in the first place.

Many schools strongly emphasize faculty evaluation and growth and with good reason—teachers deliver your school’s mission directly to students. But what about your evaluation and growth processes for the School Head, administrators, and non-teaching staff? Are these providing a predictable and supportive environment?

In this webinar, ISM Consultant Barbara Beachley will explore how to amplify your efforts to foster a growth-focused culture with an aligned evaluation and growth process that invites all employees to take healthy risks, grow, and thrive.