WestEd’s Educational Leadership and Systems Design team will present at the 2024 Association of California School Administrators (ACSA) Leadership Summit held on November 14–16, 2024, in San Diego, California.
Every year, the ACSA Leadership Summit convenes state, school, and district administrators to provide opportunities for networking and professional learning on current critical leadership and educational issues.
This year’s theme is Together We Shine: Nurturing Health, Hearts & Minds.
Come participate in our short workshop designed to refine your facilitation skills. Learn to apply the practical principles of adult learning to upgrade the way you conduct meetings. This session will equip you with a straightforward framework that elevates your planning and facilitation approach, ensuring that participants are not just attending but also actively learning and contributing with their heads (knowledge), hearts (emotions), and hands (actions).
It is important for us as leaders to recognize our role in guiding talent development at every level—from the classroom to the boardroom and into the community. Our workshop offers a collection of practical tools and protocols that will help you and your team leverage meetings as valuable opportunities for growth.
Join us to discover how to make your meetings not just a routine but also a resource for fostering an environment of continuous learning and development.
Friday, November 15, 2024
Session: Head, Heart and Hand: A Simple Facilitation Framework to Nurture Engagement
Time: 1:45–2:45pm
Location: Sapphire 410AB (4th floor)
WestEd Presenters
Ayele Dodoo, WestEd, Director of Educational Leadership and System Design. In her nearly 30 years as an educator, Dodoo has taught and led at the school, district, state, and university levels. These experiences have solidified her expertise in high-quality teaching and learning for youths and adults, coaching and facilitation, and talent development. Currently, Dodoo’s work is focused on the expansion of WestEd’s national footprint as a provider of leadership development services. She believes that by nurturing competent leadership at every level of the educational system, it is possible to significantly improve outcomes for students, families, and communities.
Teresa Alonzo, WestEd, Associate Director, Learning Networks. Alonzo develops the capacity of school, district, and state department leadership teams in utilizing continuous improvement practices to learn to improve desired outcomes. She leads the development, refinement, and delivery of professional development training materials related to instructional improvement, English Learners, equitable systems, leadership pathways, and state accountability systems. She partners with clients to conceptualize strategy and facilitate strategic planning and implementation, and she regularly presents to the field knowledge base and resources that are developed at WestEd.
Priscilla Rodriguez, WestEd, Project Director for Educational Leadership and System Design. Rodriguez provides professional development and coaching to systems leaders, principals, and instructional coaches in the area of instructional leadership. With more than 15 years in school leadership, she has extensive experience with applying systems-level thinking to scaling educational improvement efforts in schools.