2024 NHASP Leadership Academy June 26, 2024 - June 28, 2024 Sessions

Since the pandemic, educators across the country have seen an increase in the number of behavior issues, classroom disruptions, and other behaviors on a classroom and school-wide basis. In this session, participants will learn what’s happening in other schools and how the staff members in these schools are working together to help students develop more productive behaviors

In our increasingly fast-paced and demanding work environments, the concept of 'Workism' has taken root, where work becomes not just a means of economic production but oftentimes the defining aspect of identity and life's purpose. This workshop is designed for school administrators to delve into the impact of Workism on mental health and well-being. Through experiential Social Emotional Learning (eSEL) and mindfulness activities, participants will gain insights and practical tools to foster a healthier work-life balance that can be applied within their schools.

Participants will understand the System of Care tiers and be able to identify what services based on need are in each tier.

This workshop introduces participants to adolescent brain development using the setting of a high school day from wake to sleep. Topics will include the neuroscience of sleep, classroom transitions, self-concept, social relationships, communication, frustration tolerance, executive functioning, regulation, risk and reward behaviors, nutrition, exercise and athletics, engagement, and autonomy. No background in the biological sciences is needed for this workshop, and attention is paid to translating research findings into school practice including topics of guidance, curriculum, scheduling, and school cohesion.

The session will focus on the following: The nature of trust and using it as a foundation to building relationships with students. How focusing on students’ strengths and assets help you build trust. The power of sensitivity, tone, and caring in fostering relationships with students. How to respond with the appropriate feedback when students regress or fall backward, separating the behavior from the person in a way that builds relationships.

This session will provide an overview of the DCYF process from reporting to intake through court involvement and permanency. Attendees will learn about services available from DCYF as well as community collaboration. We will discuss the Community Navigator role and referral for specifically indicated cases. We will also provide an overview of the current NH Juvenile Probation and Parole Services, the implementation of the Voluntary Needs Assessment; Use of the CANS tool for person-centered case planning and outcome tracking across the juvenile justice system, changes to the terms of Conditional Release (aka probation rules), and Community-Based Alternative Interventions and Services.

This interactive session will provide tools for school administrators and their teams to better support the increased number of youth under stress and in distress. Nationally and in our communities, youth are experiencing continuing increases in anxiety, depression, trauma, and suicidal ideation, to where we are now in a widely recognized youth mental health crisis. Our goal is to provide information and resources along with an opportunity for discussing how to best support children and adolescents in distress.

Have you ever wondered if technology helps or hurts the developing adolescent brain? This workshop presents both sides of the story, from the ways in which technology (computers, tablets, smart phones, smart homes, social media, video games) help the developing brain flourish versus languish. To delve deeply into this question, we will work our way through five areas of neuroscience research that provide evidence for the impact of such technology. First, participants will learn about brain basics, such as the triune brain, plasticity, and resilience. Second, we will take a journey through how learning works at the neural level, and how technology can optimize learning but also interrupt it. The next two sections address emotional and then social competence as they relate to the use of technology and the impact on social relationships and identity. In closing we review neuroscientific evidence that academic, cognitive, and intellectual growth can be stymied or propelled depending on the form of technology and its purpose. Throughout the workshop, the four educative drives of playfulness, sociability, planning and curiosity will be integrated so that everyday application of these neuroscience findings will be clearly relevant to middle and high school settings.

The Science of Reading research provides us with the information we need to support all students in the areas of literacy. In this session, we will review what the science of reading is and is not. We will explore evidence-based instructional practices that positively impact student development in the areas of phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary and comprehension. Join me for an interactive look at what the research says about reading development and science-based reading strategies to observe in classrooms.

In this session, participants will be coached how to identify goals and begin the collaborative support process of creating their “Safe Harbor.”

Part 1 of 2 (Please be sure to register for both sessions). This workshop unpacks the ways interim assessments (a.k.a. benchmark, periodic, common formative) have been implemented ineffectively and suggests the key leadership steps for maximum impact.

In the initial keynote session, participants learned the value of the 8 Rs for addressing trauma in students. In this session, participants will examine 4 of the Rs (routines, rituals, relationships, and regulation) more closely and how making these structures friendly and predictable can help trauma-impacted students feel more supported.

More information to come on this session presented by New Hampshire DOE

Elevate instruction, provide coaching, and build relationships! Spending 120 seconds in classrooms several days a week is a systemic and efficient way to gather data on the strengths and areas of opportunities in the school community. Collect strategies to enhance your walk-throughs to support high quality instruction and interactions with staff and students

Part 1 of 4 (please be sure to register for all 4 sessions). Positive culture shaped by school personnel has never been more important and lays the foundation for everyone’s success. Participants in this full day workshop will be inspired to apply high leverage, research-based practices from Ted Lasso and other great leadership researchers. These high leverage, research practices will help you optimize your school culture where everyone thrives. We will take a look at Ted Lasso’s play book of Knowing Your Why, The Power of Trust, The Power of Inspiring, Growing Your People, Relationships, Servant Leadership and Collective Efficacy. Participants will engage in reflection, meaningful dialogue with colleagues and laughter.

Our session will highlight our journey through the implementation of a whole school WIN (What I Need) model. Participants will hear about our challenges and successes, how to use data to support decision making, creating trust between colleagues and adjusting our master schedule to accommodate our students' needs. There will be an interactive part of the session to engage educators with the process of implementation. Our hope is to have participants leave with information and excitement about how a WIN model can focus on all students including remedial, on grade level and extended learning needs.

The amount of information school leaders need to manage is mind boggling. From files, folders, and notes in the cloud, to emails, surveys, task lists, and everything in between, finding the simplest tech tools to make sense of it all requires setting aside time to create a system. Additionally, we are often using tools that contain incredible features for efficiency that we never even knew existed! In this interactive and differentiated session, you will learn a wide variety of tools available online, on smartphones, and through Google for Education. We will devise systems that not only help you to feel organized, but also create space for the reason you became a principal: building relationships and nurturing growth among students, staff, and school communities. The session will include demos, practice, collaboration, and solution-driven goal setting to set a plan into motion that maximizes tech and also honors a preference that so many of us still find useful—using paper and pencil.

Positive culture shaped by school personnel has never been more important and lays the foundation for everyone’s success. Participants in this full day workshop will be inspired to apply high leverage, research-based practices from Ted Lasso and other great leadership researchers. These high leverage, research practices will help you optimize your school culture where everyone thrives. We will take a look at Ted Lasso’s play book of Knowing Your Why, The Power of Trust, The Power of Inspiring, Growing Your People, Relationships, Servant Leadership and Collective Efficacy. Participants will engage in reflection, meaningful dialogue with colleagues and laughter.

Communication is messy. Personalities clash, opinions differ, and emotions run high. Yet, communication is at the heart of everything we do in schools. Learn how to defuse those difficult conversations and go even further to turn them into productive ones.

This workshop unpacks the ways interim assessments (a.k.a. benchmark, periodic, common formative) have been implemented ineffectively and suggests the key leadership steps for maximum impact.

Rather than operating as independent entities, the best thing we can do is find ways to build relationships (partnerships) with parents. This session offers strategies to build meaningful and helpful relationships with students’ parents and families of students experiencing trauma. It also examines the role that the community can play as you become a trauma sensitive-school.

Educators and administrators are now considered first responders, like ER nurses or social workers due to their exposure to secondary-traumatic stress. In this session participants will be exposed to some of the research on secondary-traumatic stress, (STS) vicarious trauma, compassion fatigue, or what is often referred to as the burnout syndrome. The majority of the session will then focus on utilizing a natural system of support for your organization to use to implement toxic stress reduction techniques and to increase the health and energy of your staff. Healthy school systems can only occur if the teachers and staff in those organizations are healthy and high functioning. Healthy teachers have healthy responses to students’ needs, and can access higher order critical thinking skills, problem-solve on the spot, as well as mitigate their own stress levels by accessing their teacher tools and skills.

Positive culture shaped by school personnel has never been more important and lays the foundation for everyone’s success. Participants in this full day workshop will be inspired to apply high leverage, research-based practices from Ted Lasso and other great leadership researchers. These high leverage, research practices will help you optimize your school culture where everyone thrives. We will take a look at Ted Lasso’s play book of Knowing Your Why, The Power of Trust, The Power of Inspiring, Growing Your People, Relationships, Servant Leadership and Collective Efficacy. Participants will engage in reflection, meaningful dialogue with colleagues and laughter.

The best professional learning does not come from outside consultants-it is home-grown. I will share a simple four-step process for designing professional learning for your staff that sticks!

Success breeds success. Students will be more motivated to learn when they observe the growth achieved through their hard work. Educators will respond in the same way. To maximize the chances of this occurring schools must have systems in place that establish goals, measure progress toward those goals, and communicate progress, celebrating or making course corrections as appropriate. Most schools can initiate MTSS-based practices, but only schools that have a plan for sustaining these practices will optimize success and student learning.

t’s been said many times that if you can make the work play, it’s no longer work. In this session, participants will be engaged in teambuilding activities that can be used to positively impact school culture. Participants will leave the session with a variety of activities and de-briefing strategies to use back at their schools to use to build cohesive and interdependent teams.

Student learning is the goal of instruction, so there has to be a way to include it in supervision, coaching, and evaluation. This workshop argues that when supervisors use a different approach to classroom observations-short, frequent, unannounced visits, each followed by a face-to-face coaching conversation-it’s raised these questions with teachers and teacher teams: What were students supposed to learn? How do we know they are learning it? What needs to be improved? These medium-stakes conversations get everyone thinking about what’s working and what isn’t-and the most effective ways to continuously improve teaching and learning.

In September 2023, about 52,000 teachers and other educational staff quit their jobs in the United States.* You can improve teacher retention, and even lead teachers from surviving to thriving by embedding the 5Cs into your school culture. Learn how Compassion, Connection, Communication, Coaching, and Community creates an environment where staff feels supported, fulfilled, and effective in helping students succeed. During this interactive session, you’ll examine and practice strategies that will best meet the needs of your staff on topics including supporting struggling teachers, navigating difficult conversations, or coaching the rockstar teachers in your school. *Published by Statista Research Department, Nov 3, 2023

Many students, starting as young as grades one and two can experience math anxiety. Research suggests that once present, this negative emotion in relation to mathematics learning often endures into adulthood. In this session we will explore some of the conditions that lead students to believe they are not “math people” and cannot understand math concepts. We will look at instructional strategies to promote positive math associations and learning outcomes and discuss how leaders can provide structures to help teachers to learn and implement these strategies.

In September 2023, about 52,000 teachers and other educational staff quit their jobs in the United States.* You can improve teacher retention, and even lead teachers from surviving to thriving by embedding the 5Cs into your school culture. Learn how Compassion, Connection, Communication, Coaching, and Community creates an environment where staff feels supported, fulfilled, and effective in helping students succeed. During this interactive session, you’ll examine and practice strategies that will best meet the needs of your staff on topics including supporting struggling teachers, navigating difficult conversations, or coaching the rockstar teachers in your school. *Published by Statista Research Department, Nov 3, 2023

Student learning is the goal of instruction, so there has to be a way to include it in supervision, coaching, and evaluation. This workshop argues that when supervisors use a different approach to classroom observations-short, frequent, unannounced visits, each followed by a face-to-face coaching conversation-it’s raised these questions with teachers and teacher teams: What were students supposed to learn? How do we know they are learning it? What needs to be improved? These medium-stakes conversations get everyone thinking about what’s working and what isn’t-and the most effective ways to continuously improve teaching and learning,

Positive culture shaped by school personnel has never been more important and lays the foundation for everyone’s success. Participants in this full day workshop will be inspired to apply high leverage, research-based practices from Ted Lasso and other great leadership researchers. These high leverage, research practices will help you optimize your school culture where everyone thrives. We will take a look at Ted Lasso’s play book of Knowing Your Why, The Power of Trust, The Power of Inspiring, Growing Your People, Relationships, Servant Leadership and Collective Efficacy. Participants will engage in reflection, meaningful dialogue with colleagues, and laughter.

n this session, the coaching and supportive processes will be launched.

The purpose of this presentation is to explore the positive effects of therapy dogs in the school setting on mental health and the learning experience. We aim to provide insight into the potential benefits of incorporating therapy dogs into various settings, including educational institutions and workplaces.