2011-2012 Breakfast Conversations
“Innovate the Way You Lead”
The six-session series of monthly Breakfast Conversations will help school leaders innovate the way they lead. The sessions will provide participants with a better understanding of the difference between leading for improvement and leading for innovation. The sessions will provide them with dispositions, skills, practices, and tools for creating and leading dynamic educational systems that are capable of both improving and innovating.
In every sector of society today, organizational vitality is linked to adapting to changes in the external environment. For schools, adaptation takes the form of innovation. It is important to keep in mind that innovation is far more than continuously improving academic performance. It is about developing a new way of being, a new way of understanding your organizational identity, a new way of thinking about information, and a new way of understanding relationships. Because the world is constantly evolving, school improvement alone is not enough to prepare students for success in the 21st century. School leaders also need to be innovators who nurture a culture of both improvement and innovation.
Each session will feature school leaders who will present their approach to innovating the way they lead. Participants will then engage in a structured conversation process (“protocol”) to experience a deep conversation about the featured innovative practice. Interested participants can choose to attend individual sessions in the series or the entire series.
Session Leader: Dr. Robert Davidovich,
co-author of Beyond School Improvement:
The Journey to Innovative Leadership (Davidovich, Nikolay, Laugerman & Commodore)
Feb. 16, 2012
Topic: “Creating context”
Continuously referencing and reexamining your school’s purpose
March 15, 2012
Topic: “Reframing”
Encouraging new ways to interpret the meaning of information
April 19, 2012
Topic: “Initiating generative practices”
Creating new relationships between people, ideas, and practice
REGISTRATION
PLEASE NOTE NEW LOCATION!
All sessions will be held from 7:30-9:30 a.m. at the Brookfield Suites Hotel and Convention Center, 1200 S. Moorland Road, Brookfield, WI 53005.
Registration fee: $25 per session if paid in advance; $30 per session if paid on-site at each session. Fee includes cost of full buffet breakfast and session materials.
Optional 1-2 graduate credit: $160 per credit in addition to registration fees; attendance required at all six sessions plus completion of outside assignments. Registration for credit, payment of tuition, and explanation of credit requirements will occur on-site at the first session on Oct. 20.
Advance registration is required for all sessions in the Breakfast Conversation series in one of two ways:
- Early registration prior to Oct. 13, 2011, via U.S. mail with payment of fees enclosed (view Early Registration Form). Early registrants will pay a discounted fee of $25 per session.
- E-mail Registration by e-mailing the registrant’s name, school, district, e-mail address, and the session(s) to be attended to: jkanderson@stritch.edu. E-mail registrants will pay a fee of $30 per session, payable on-site at each session attended (cash, check, or P.O. only; no credit cards accepted).
Questions regarding the Breakfast Conversation series should be referred to Jill K. Anderson at jkanderson@stritch.edu or (414) 410-4552.