Symposium of Women Educational Leaders Sessions

Self-Preservation is the New Self-Care - Sarah Sherman Carrying the mental load between home and work, Imposter Syndrome, and a tendency to people please are some barriers to women advancing in leadership roles and causing burning out. These tendencies can all have significant impacts on our performance, relationships, and overall mental health. This workshop will discuss how toxic stress, and mental overload shape our responses to everyday demands, so we can build awareness in ourselves and colleagues. We’ll also delve into strategies such as how to create boundaries and buffers, do more by doing less, and find the joy again, because self-preservation is the new self-care.

Many women fail to recognize opportunities to negotiate — about their roles, the support and resources they need, their own compensation, and more. This is especially true in the field of education. This breakout session can help you become empowered to negotiate for what you need to create the conditions for career and personal success by exploring the issues unique to women and negotiation, rethinking the purpose of negotiations, and demonstrating strategies that suit you authentically. When women negotiate, they not only negotiate for themselves they negotiate for all women to promote workplace equity.

The truth is that it’s more expensive to be a woman. So we have to do what we can to make sure we have the money we need, both now and in the future. There are times that life will cost us more. For example, we have more student loan debt, we have higher health care costs (including in retirement), and we face the pink tax (that is, marked-up prices on products and services). And sometimes we're paid less. A few examples include the wage gap, the mom tax, and the Social Security tax. We’ll talk about how to plan, save, and invest in a way that takes these financial realities into consideration.

Inclusivity is a relatively new word, even though many have been using it, and fighting for it, for decades. The actions, and inactions, of leaders today have made inclusivity a topic of discussion, frustration, polarization, and importance. Who sits at the head table matters in organizations and on all teams, including those in education. Once we understand how to demolish the walls that have been in place for a very long time, we can welcome new chairs with new faces at the table. Why do these walls exist and how can we bring them down? The future depends on us understanding this very important question and taking action.

Self-Preservation is the New Self-Care - Sarah Sherman Carrying the mental load between home and work, Imposter Syndrome, and a tendency to people please are some barriers to women advancing in leadership roles and causing burning out. These tendencies can all have significant impacts on our performance, relationships, and overall mental health. This workshop will discuss how toxic stress, and mental overload shape our responses to everyday demands, so we can build awareness in ourselves and colleagues. We’ll also delve into strategies such as how to create boundaries and buffers, do more by doing less, and find the joy again, because self-preservation is the new self-care.

Many women fail to recognize opportunities to negotiate — about their roles, the support and resources they need, their own compensation, and more. This is especially true in the field of education. This breakout session can help you become empowered to negotiate for what you need to create the conditions for career and personal success by exploring the issues unique to women and negotiation, rethinking the purpose of negotiations, and demonstrating strategies that suit you authentically. When women negotiate, they not only negotiate for themselves they negotiate for all women to promote workplace equity.

The truth is that it’s more expensive to be a woman. So we have to do what we can to make sure we have the money we need, both now and in the future. There are times that life will cost us more. For example, we have more student loan debt, we have higher health care costs (including in retirement), and we face the pink tax (that is, marked-up prices on products and services). And sometimes we're paid less. A few examples include the wage gap, the mom tax, and the Social Security tax. We’ll talk about how to plan, save, and invest in a way that takes these financial realities into consideration.

Inclusivity is a relatively new word, even though many have been using it, and fighting for it, for decades. The actions, and inactions, of leaders today have made inclusivity a topic of discussion, frustration, polarization, and importance. Who sits at the head table matters in organizations and on all teams, including those in education. Once we understand how to demolish the walls that have been in place for a very long time, we can welcome new chairs with new faces at the table. Why do these walls exist and how can we bring them down? The future depends on us understanding this very important question and taking action.