Upcoming Sessions
NOTE: Membership in Chicago Principals & Administrators Association (CPAA) is NOT required to sign up for IAA sessions.
Building Effective Leadership Teams to Improve Learning (#4039)
Wednesday, April 23, 2025
8:00 AM - 4:00 PM
$195.00
A school leadership team, within a professional learning community, plays a pivotal role in shaping the overall direction, effectiveness, and success of the school. A team's collaborative efforts contribute to a thriving learning environment that supports the growth and achievement of students. Utilizing the elements of "Collaborative Teams That Transform Schools" by Robert Marzano, et. al., this academy builds on the concepts, strategies and skills presented in this work and adds research of others to create a vision and understanding of how leadership teams can foster a productive learning environment for all stakeholders. School leaders will use this knowledge to enhance their leadership skills in reflective conversations with team members and leave with a professional learning plan that incorporates effective team building as a strategy for improving the culture of learning.
Using Student Growth Data from Diverse Populations in Teacher Performance Evaluation (#4114)**
Thursday, April 24, 2025
8:00 AM - 4:00 PM
$195.00
The one-day course focuses on understanding implicit bias, differentiating for equity, and coaching more deeply when evaluating student growth for special education, English learners, and early childhood students. This course is for individuals who need to complete retraining in the area of student growth to evaluate teachers. Upon successful completion, the individual will have satisfied the requirement for retraining in student growth.
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Distributed Leadership Through an Equity Lens (#4153)
Wednesday, April 30, 2025
8:00 AM - 4:00 PM
$195.00
Distributed Leadership is an approach to leadership that is shared, collective and extended. In practice, it identifies and taps into the skills and abilities of individuals within the school community, relies on collaboration, and fosters a culture of trust and respect. This academy focuses on identifying and articulating a deliberate set of leadership practices and policies that move beyond simply "divvying up" the tasks of school leadership to thoughtfully identifying beliefs and practices intended to result in school culture outcomes that are both ethical and equitable. Participants will be required to map out a distributed leadership agenda with measurable outcomes, designed to assure an equitable school culture of high expectations for every student.
Building Capacity to Integrate Drug Prevention and Other Life Issues Into the K-12 Curriculum (#837) (REVISED 2022)
Tuesday, May 6, 2025
8:00 AM - 4:00 PM
$195.00
With a focus on teaching rather than learning, Professional Learning Communities (PLC) have been utilized in schools to improve accountability, teacher satisfaction, and student achievement. In PLC’s, colleagues learn to collect and analyze appropriate data, to develop and share expertise, and rely on critical reflection with others to move forward. This course is for administrators who have an advanced understanding of PLC’s, and who recognize the power of collaborating with their peers to advance their PLC’s. After attending this course, participants will be able to apply the PLC process when working with adult learners. They will know how to assessment staff learning and differentiate professional development.
Distributed Leadership: Building Capacity of Staff to Analyze & Build Buy-In Around Data (#4019)
Tuesday, May 6, 2025
8:00 AM - 4:00 PM
$195.00
Participants will self-assess their school's needs regarding data usage and integration across all systems and structures; critique key staff regarding the ownership of various aspects of data analysis; synthesize their strategic plans and staff leadership regarding data use; and analyze their staff in relationship to their skills and training to manipulate, analyze, and visualize data. Special attention will be given to the use of data in "building capacity for data-informed decision making to reduce chronic absenteeism".
Gathering Evidence During Observations and Conferencing Using the Danielson Model (#1801)**
Thursday, May 8, 2025
8:00 AM - 4:00 PM
$195.00
This Academy will allow participants to learn effective skills and strategies for using Danielson’s Frameworks in a summative setting in order to more effectively:
Identify evidence at the component/element level during formal and informal observations.
Use evidence to effectively rate staff on the levels of performance for each domain.
Acquire strategies to support effective collaborative conferencing around formal and informal observations.
Learn techniques, strategies and protocols to use when conferencing with staff.
Using Effective Feedback to Improve Teaching and Learning (#3955)
Thursday, May 22, 2025
8:00 AM - 4:00 PM
$195.00
Effective feedback can be an important strategy in addressing the complex issues of student learning loss and improving teachers' professional practice. Utilizing elements of "Thanks for the Feedback" by Douglas Stone and Sheila Henn, this academy builds on the concepts in their work and adds research of others to create a vision and understanding of how to use feedback as a critical part of improving the teaching and learning environment and the overall pandemic-recovery plan of schools. Participants will work collaboratively to provide a description of effective feedback within the diversity, equity and inclusion values of classroom instruction. This knowledge will be used to enhance leadership skills in professional conversations with teachers focused on improving instructional culture and addressing student learning loss with effective feedback.
**Teacher Evaluator Retraining Courses — Completion of two academies is required to meet the retraining requirement -- one course that addresses Teacher Practice and, the other course addresses Student Growth. These two courses must be completed within the five-year renewal cycle and need not be completed within the same calendar year.