Two Courses Offered:
June 30, 2025 | Course #3807 | Complete your 24-25 IAA school year credit
July 1st, 2025 | Course #481 | Complete your 25-26 IAA school year credit
You can register for one session or both!
Breakfast, lunch and snacks will be provided.
Collaborative Team Planning:
You can use this time as an off-site retreat for leadership teams. Both courses offered will blend educational activities with strategic planning. If you attend both sessions, Each day features unique content to ensure a comprehensive experience.
New Location for 2025:
We’re excited to host this year’s academy at the historic Newberry Library—an inspiring venue for visionary leadership.
Parking
100 West Chestnut Street. Complimentary parking validation.
Course Cost: $150 per course
You can register for one course or both!
Breakfast, lunch and snacks will be provided.
Complete your 2024-2025 school year credit
Presenter: Eileen Murphy
Course Description: Change is a common entity within a K-12 school environment and successful implementation of change can be instrumental in improving the student learning and teacher instructional practices. The academy will give administrators the tools they need to lead their districts through a change process. Whether that is updating standards, adopting new grading practices or improving instructional philosophies. They will learn how to identify which change theory will best suit their building or district’s needs as they continue to lead and grow. Administrators will receive specific tools to support adult learning implementation and build capacity along with ways to assess the implementation plan.
▪️Website: eLearning Industry: The Adult Learning Theory & eLearning connections
▪️Website: Michael Fullan: Motion Leadership (Free Resource Section)
▪️Book: Protocols for Professional Learning by Lois Eaton Brown (2009) (pages 60-61, 74-76, 82-86
▪️Book: Restructuring for Caring and Effective Education: Piecing the Puzzle Together (2nd Ed.) by Richard A. Villa and Jacqueline S. Thousand (1999) (pages 93-128)
▪️Article: “What We Have Learned About Teacher Education to Improve Literacy Achievement in Urban Schools” (pages 159-184)
Complete your 2025-2026 school year credit
Presenter: Eileen Murphy
Course Description: Some schools and school districts are good; some are great. What is the difference and what does it take to move an institution from good to great? The focus of this course is on leadership and behavioral characteristics that enable leaders to identify and accomplish their goals of moving from good to great.
▪️Book: Good To Great by Jim Collins (2001)
▪️Book: Good To Great and the Social Sectors by Jim Collins (2005)
Eileen Murphy is the founder and CEO of ThinkCERCA, a tool designed to support systems-level literacy growth. Eileen spent 20 years as a classroom teacher, English department chair, and Director of Curriculum and Instruction for 115 schools before founding ThinkCERCA. She is also an NCTE author and a Pahara Aspen Fellow.
Dr. Katie McKnight is a 15-year distinguished professor, dedicated teacher, and award-winning author. She is the founder of Engaging Learners, an educational company built around her successful Literacy & Learning Center model. Her support for professional learning at the leadership and classroom level has resulted in unprecedented academic achievement in many struggling schools. Dr. McKnight has authored 20 books, including best-selling, The Teacher’s Big Book of Graphic Organizers, winner of the 2013 Teachers’ Choice Award, and Literacy & Learning Centers for the Big Kids, grades 4-12.
