Champlain Valley Educator Development Center (CVEDC-ESA)

Target Audience: Current and Aspiring Curriculum Leaders, Teacher Leaders

This Leadership Academy is designed to meet the learning needs of both current and aspiring Curriculum Directors. 

Course Description

This Leadership Academy is designed to meet the learning needs of both current and aspiring Curriculum Directors. Each session will include:

• an exploration of a focus area
• introduction to a component of the final project,
• a takeaway tool to support your work now and in the future
• a personalized facilitated work session with ‘experts in the field’

The major work of the course will be the development of a continuous improvement plan for an individual, a grade band, a school, or an SU as this work is the keystone of learning organizations; defining the why, what, how and where of innovation efforts.

Designing and building dynamic environments for students requires that schools, districts and Supervisory Unions become learning organizations. Peter Senge defines a learning organization as a place “where people continually expand their capacity to create the results they truly desire; where new and expansive patterns of thinking are nurtured, where collective aspiration is set free, and where people are continually learning to see the whole (reality) together” (Senge 1992).

Text: “Deep Learning:  Engage the World Change the World “ by Michael Fullan, Joanne Quinn and Joanne McEachen

Dates: October 2021-May 2022 (October 22, November 19, January 21, March 25, May 20)

*Additional participation in online discussion and reflection on learning and growth required for course.

Time: 9:00-3:30 (light breakfast/lunch provided at in-person sessions)

Cost: $1,475 (3 Graduate Credits from Saint Michael’s College)

Faciltiators:

Megan Grube is the Director of Curriculum, Instruction and Technology for the Grand Isle Supervisory Union. 

Prior to coming to GISU, she worked as a School Effectiveness Coordinator for the Agency of Education and was an inaugural Ferguson Fellow focusing on effective implementation of MTSS in charter, public, urban and rural settings. read more

Violet Nichols is the Director of Learning for the Addison Northwest School District. She is a Vermont native who has worked nationally and internationally as a public school teacher, STEM instructor, instructional coach and consultant. Violet’s work centers around increasing equity within systems through student agency, cohesion-building and research-based practices.