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A Complimentary Copy of the Book Leading with Intenion for the First 50 Registrants
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Complimentary Follow-up Session

About WASA Winter Conference

Don't miss this opportunity to learn with Peter DeWitt and Michael Nelson as they share insights about the recent publication of their book “Leading with Intention.” During the last six months, they have traveled across the United States, Canada, and Australia learning how educators in these three countries have implemented strategies from their book.

Peter and Michael will purposefully engage with you in active learning conversations throughout the entire virtual learning session in ways that are sure to provide you with both reflections about your current practice and strategies you can use immediately with those you lead.

They will model how educators can develop a shared understanding, engage in joint work, and focus on collecting evidence of impact that will help deepen a social-emotional and academic impact on student learning.

This learning opportunity (general session and follow-up experience) is perfect for district teams as well as individual leaders!

By the end of the WASA Winter Conference, participants, through “Leading with Intention,” will be able to:

  • Define ways they foster Collective Leader Efficacy (CLE).
  • Connect research to three key components of the definition of collective leader efficacy (shared understanding, joint work, and impact) for the purpose of transfer and provide examples of how it can be fostered as a way to instill hope within your school leadership teams.
  • Understand levels of internal and external self-awareness and identify specific areas for your personal growth.
  • Demonstrate your ability to foster human interconnectedness and teamwork in your school environment.
  • Engage in the use of AI and learning protocols to actively engage your staff, as well as understand the multiple perspectives that can be found in your schools, districts, and organizations.

Target Audience

District Administrators

Clock Hours

3 hours will be available for participation on December 10. Those who participate on December 17 will receive an additional hour for a total of 4 hours.

Registration

Includes a copy of the book!
WASA Member—$199
Non-member Conference Attendee—$225

Register

 

Zoom

Soon after registering (within 24 hours), you will receive a Zoom meeting confirmation with your personal link to join the session. Please follow the link in the confirmation to save the meetings to your calendar.

Access is limited to one person/device per email so please do not share your link.

Our Speakers

Peter DeWitt

Peter DeWitt (Ed.D) is the founder and CEO of the Instructional Leadership Collective. He was a K-5 teacher for 11 years and a principal for 8 years. For the last 10 years, he has been facilitating professional learning nationally, and internationally, based on the content of many of his best-selling educational books.

DeWitt's professional learning relationships are a monthly hybrid approach that includes both coaching and facilitating workshops on instructional leadership and collective efficacy.

Additionally, in the Summer of 2021, DeWitt created a year long on-demand, asynchronous coaching course through Thinkific where he has created a community of learners that include k-12 educators in leadership positions.

DeWitt's work has been adopted at the state level, university level, and he works with numerous school districts, school boards, regional networks, ministries of education around North America, Australia, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and the U.K.

Peter writes the Finding Common Ground column for Education Week, which has been in circulation since 2011. In 2020 DeWitt co-created Education Week's A Seat At the Table where he moderates conversations with experts around the topics of race, gender, sexual orientation, research, trauma and many other educational topics.

Additionally, DeWitt is the Series Editor for the Connected Educator Series (Corwin Press) and the Impact Series (Corwin Press) that include books by Viviane Robinson, Andy Hargreaves, Pasi Sahlberg, Yong Zhao and Michael Fullan. He is the 2013 School Administrators Association of New York State's (SAANYS) Outstanding Educator of the Year, and the 2015 Education Blogger of the Year (Academy of Education Arts & Sciences), and sits on numerous advisory boards.

Peter is the author, co-author or contributor of numerous books, including Leading with Intention - How School Leaders Can Unlock Deeper Collaboration and Drive Results (co-authored with Michael Nelson. Corwin Press. 2024).

Mike Nelson

Michael Nelson co-facilitates coaching, keynotes, and workshops with Peter DeWitt. They are co-authoring two books together in 2024. Michael created the Instructional Leadership Network for the Washington Association of School Administrators.

There is no more noble profession than that of an educator was what Michael Nelson’s mom said almost every day while he was growing up. For almost 40 years, Michael has been an educator. His mom would be pleased.  

Even though Michael still considers “teacher” as his primary title, he has served in roles of principal, district instructional leader, superintendent, and currently as assistant executive director developing programs and initiatives for superintendents and district leaders in the state of Washington.  

One foundational leadership value in which Michael leads is the development of a kind, compassionate, and empathetic culture rooted in belonging and equity. He describes his leadership work as building human connectedness, recognizing you must always model what you lead as you build teams of individuals supporting students in their learning. The Muckleshoot Indian Tribe awarded him with their official blanket for building a collaborative partnership between the Tribe and school district, the highest honor of the Tribe and the first non-Tribal member to receive this blanket.

Michael has received many state and national awards during his time as a principal and superintendent. As a principal, he was acknowledged by Pacific Lutheran University as its Outstanding Recent Alumni in 1997. At the same time, the school he was leading as principal received the National Blue-Ribbon Award from the United States Department of Education.   As a superintendent, he was named Washington State’s 2019 Superintendent of the Year. During his tenure as superintendent, Michael was elected President of the Washington Association of School Administrators (WASA) by his peers.  

While WASA President, he was one of two superintendents in the nation selected to participate in the Embark Program facilitated by the United States Navy. He spent time on the USS Ronald Reagan learning from all levels of the men and women serving on this aircraft carrier.  He also has received the Washington State Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development Educating the Whole Child Award. 

Cancellations

A $75 administrative fee applies to all cancellations submitted by November 24th.
No refunds after November 24th.
No Show = No Refund.

Questions

Contact Ryan Hickerson at rhickerson@wasa-oly.org with registration questions.
Contact Shawn Batstone at sbatstone@wasa-oly.org or Kim Fry at kfry@wasa-oly.org with questions about the program.
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