2012 UCEA Convention

Center for Engaged Leadership - Administrative Leadership Team Institutes. Barbara Wilson, Minnesota State University Mankato; Candace Raskin, Minnesota State University, Mankato
The Center for Engaged Leadership at Minnesota State University, Mankato at Edina, provides onsite, customized, leadership development for P-12 school district administrative teams. Monthly Administrative Institutes give administrators the opportunity to work collaboratively as they develop and enhance their leadership practices. Two-year Administrative Institutes begin with a school-wide culture survey in each school, followed by sessions to address key elements such as: understanding the dimensions of school culture, facilitating collaboration, and data driven decision-making.

Center for Engaged Leadership – The Superintendent Leadership Cohort. Melissa Krull, Minnesota State University, Mankato
The Center for Engaged Leadership at Minnesota State University, Mankato at Edina, provides customized, leadership development and preparation for newly licensed school superintendents. Superintendent candidates work as a team in a yearlong internship experience. Simultaneously, these candidates discuss current day needs and challenges of the 21st century superintendent through periodic seminars. Themes include, understanding race and the effect on achievement, leading through politics and eliminating the racially predictable
achievement gap through high leverage leadership.

Center for Engaged Leadership: Institute for Engaged Principal Leadership. Candace Raskin,
Minnesota State University, Mankato; Barbara Wilson, Minnesota State University Mankato The Center for Engaged Leadership at Minnesota State University, Mankato at Edina provides
customized leadership development for P-12 school district administrators. Institute for Engaged Principal Leadership is a two-year experience designed to develop early career principals as they hone their practice and become transformational leaders. The mission of the Institute is to advance student achievement through the development of courageous leaders by engaging early career principals in ongoing examination of strong leadership practices.

Title Center for Engaged Leadership - Administrative Leadership Reflections on Growth. Dr. Deirdre A Wells, Mankato State University; Barbara Wilson, Minnesota State University Mankato
The Center for Engaged Leadership at Minnesota State University provides customized leadership development for school district administrative teams. Participation in these monthly institutes gave one district’s administrators the opportunity to work collaboratively in a supported environment to develop and enhance leadership practices. Tailored sessions to address key elements such as: understanding the dimensions of school culture, facilitating collaboration, and data driven decision-making allowed for ownership of the work and the need to move forward courageously.