Leaders at the site and district level are always pressed for time. Without a strategy to maintain visibility, administrators can find all of their time taken with operations and compliance. This session will give leaders practical guidelines to ensure that they maintain a presence in their educational community. Through classroom visits and attendance at school and district events, leaders can keep their finger on the pulse of their organization, gain valuable insight, and improve morale. Attend this session for practical strategies to leverage your limited time effectively.
Employee discipline with dignity is a fundamental aspect of fostering a respectful and productive work environment. It entails addressing performance deficits or misconduct in a manner that upholds the employee's dignity and preserves their self-respect. By focusing on constructive feedback, clear expectations, and fair treatment, organizations can effectively correct behavior and performance deficits while maintaining a positive morale. This approach involves open communication, explicitly teaching the performance expectations, and providing opportunities for improvement rather than punitive measures. Ultimately, treating employees with dignity during a discipline process promotes trust, encourages more accountability, and contributes to a culture of mutual respect within the workplace.
In 2023-2024 our Educational Services department transitioned our idea of educational leadership from a DLT (district leadership team) to Soquel Union Elementary School District Stewardship Leaders.
Stewardship is defined as “the responsible overseeing and protection of something considered worth caring for and preserving.” As members of the Soquel Union Elementary School community, we are all stewards of students and their educational experience. To do this well, stewardship of our teaching and learning work is critical.
As a part of the functioning of a school district, the leadership of this important work is essentially inclusive. This takes many forms over the course of a year. Leadership teams, curriculum sub-committees, calendar committees, report card committees, master plan committees, COST teams, grade level teams, department teams, admin teams, Racial Justice Task Forces, Equity Teams, School Site Councils, etc. all work in tandem to ensure that we all continue to thrive. To do this even more coherently, a team of lead members, organized to support all of the interconnected work, can cooperatively: -Develop Direction for Student Learning -Support Staff Leadership and Learning -Foster Collaboration for Teaching and Learning -Grow Organizational Structures and Culture
In the first months of the 2023-2024 year, we organically built this team. While in the spirit of the district or distributed leadership team (DLT), this team will function as a shoulder-to-shoulder, growth development model. Together we began to dig into relevant data and research to create a plan, timeline, goals, etc. with our sights on leveraging assets, removing barriers, and potentially reaching practices so that all humans find efficacy and achievement at high levels.
Want to hear how it’s going, or how to get started? We’d love to share our processes and resources with you!
Every Human Resources administrator should have a working understanding of the collective bargaining process under the EERA (Rodda Act). This presentation will provide an overview of the entire labor negotiations process from sunshine proposals to negotiations methodologies to ratification (with an off the road detour midway to address impasse procedures and communications strategies).
OverviewDaniel M. McElhinney is the Assistant Office Managing Partner in Lozano Smith’s San Luis Obispo office. He provides counsel to school districts in a variety of areas, including labor, employment and governance.ExperienceMr. McElhinney regularly advises clients on matters... Read More →
