Target Audience: Current and Aspiring Curriculum Leaders, Teacher Leaders

Course Description

Curriculum Leaders are the shepherds of continual learning in Supervisory Unions and School Districts. They are capacity-builders, vision keepers, lead learners, framework builders, innovation catalysts and more. In collaboration with other key leaders, we are the designers, teachers, and stewards of the creation of learning organizations. Whether detailing a Recovery Plan, facilitating district curriculum meetings, leading district efforts at school improvement, grant writing or data diving, this cohort will offer you the expertise to guide you through your early years of this exciting field.

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).

Note: This course will be taught in either an in-person classroom or virtually, as needed. It is equipped with a Zoom Room Classroom Camera for remote access for participants.

Dates: October 17 and December 5, 2025, January 16, March 27 and May 29, 2026

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

Time: 9:00 - 3:30 includes lunch

Cost: $1,750 - includes 3 Graduate Credits from Saint Michael’s College and book

$1350 - includes book Text: Deep Learning: Engage the World Change the World by Michael Fullan, Joanne Quinn and Joanne McEachen

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

Gwen Carmolli is the Director of Curriculum and Instruction for Colchester School District. She has worked for Colchester schools since 1991, working in her current role since 2004. read more

Curriculum Leadership Academy: Leading a Learning Organization Cohort #6