Professional Learning Series
Join the OLAC team for a series of free professional learning sessions designed to provide educators with the structures and resources necessary to develop and support effective leadership at every level. Explore OLAC’s latest online learning tools, including modules, webinars, videos, podcast episodes, and more to support educators as they work to embed essential leadership practices at every level of a school system. Remember, all resources are free and you can earn credit.
2023-2024 Dates
Three-Part Series: Evaluating, Designing & Preparing Your Master Schedule
Presenter: Carrie Sanchez, Director of Leadership & Learning, North Point Educational Service Center
- Watch Recording: Evaluating Your Master Schedule & Preparing for the Future
- Watch Recording: Designing A Premium Master Schedule
- Watch Recording: Preparing Your Staff for a Collaborative Schedule
The Ohio Improvement Process: From the Perspectives of the Ohio Department of Education and Ohio Districts
Presenters: Representatives from Marlington Local Schools, Louisville City Schools, Western Local Schools, and Quaker Academies; Dr. Phil Latessa, Ohio Department of Education
Watch Recording: The OIP: From the Perspectives of ODE and Ohio Districts
Become an OLAC Facilitator
Presenters: OLAC Team
Watch Recording: Become an OLAC Facilitator 2023
Three-Part Series: You Have Your Staff, Now What?
June 28, August 7 & August 29, 9-10:30 a.m. (all sessions)
Presenter: Carrie Sanchez, Director of Leadership & Learning, North Point Educational Service Center
This three-part series is designed to help organize and inspire your thinking as you begin to plan the upcoming school year. Solid, intentional planning will give you peace and freedom to enjoy your summer and look forward to the upcoming year.
June 28, 2023: Strategies for Strengthening Building Leadership
You have built your team and hopefully you have filled all of your vacancies. There may be shifts in assignments or there may be new members to your team—how do you ensure that you start the upcoming year on the right track? Learn strategies that will strengthen your building leadership.
Register now: Strategies for Strengthening Building Leadership
August 7, 2023: Making OTES Meaningful
How do you as the building leader make OTES meaningful, stress free, and growth focused for everyone? It IS possible and a positive OTES plan makes everything more pleasant for everyone. This success begins with the school leader’s mindset and structured plan. Explore a variety of ways to plan, schedule, and implement all of the elements of OTES.
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August 29, 2023: Understanding and Using Your school Data
Designing a plan to positively infuse data into your school culture is the superpower of school leaders. This session will provide building leaders with tools, strategies, and understanding on how to effectively teach your teachers WHY this data is important and how to genuinely USE it without it feeling like a confrontational conversation.
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Become an OLAC Facilitator
September 15, 2023, 9 a.m.–12 p.m.
Presenters: OLAC Team
From the beginning, the Ohio Leadership Advisory Council’s goal has been to provide educators – no matter their role – with the structures and resources they need to develop shared and effective leadership at every level.
OLAC is proud to offer free resources to support your personal or team’s professional learning—in a safe online environment and at your convenience. By becoming a certified OLAC facilitator, you will be able to share these resources with others and demonstrate how to integrate them into their leadership and instructional practices. Become familiar with and gain working knowledge of:
- The OLAC web platform, including new features and enhanced functionality
- How to use module, webinar, podcast, and video content to enhance the effectiveness of district and building leadership teams and teacher-based teams (DLTs, BLTs, TBTs)
- Ohio Principal Evaluation System (OPES) Crosswalk—Lead superintendents/principals through the Principal Crosswalk, which aligns relevant OLAC modules, webinars, podcasts, and videos to the Ohio Principal Standards
- Ohio Teacher Evaluation System (OTES) 2.0 Crosswalk—Lead principals/teachers through the Teacher Crosswalk, which aligns relevant OLAC modules, webinars, podcasts, and videos to the Ohio Standards for the Teaching Profession
- How to support superintendents, principals, and teachers in developing a professional growth plan
- Team Assessment—Become familiar with the new Systemic Improvement Practices Review (SIPR), an online team assessment designed for DLTs
- New modules, webinars, and videos on demand
- Credit options—Become familiar with templates for workshop offerings using OLAC modules that can be presented to colleges and universities for consideration for college credit. Facilitators will also become familiar for LPDC credit options available through the OLAC website.
Register now: Become an OLAC Facilitator
Understanding Your School Report Card
September 19, 9-10:30 a.m.
Presenter: Carrie Sanchez, Director of Leadership & Learning, North Point Educational Service Center
Designed for building and district leaders, explore critical areas of building and state report cards. Learn about how calculations are formulated, what each area represents, and how educational leaders can use this information to drive meaningful conversations with teachers, parents, community members, and boards of education. Leave this session with a deeper understanding of how building and district report cards can be meaningful tools for enhanced student learning and achievement. This session will also connect to the Ohio Improvement Process (OIP) framework to help leaders identify critical areas of need, plan for implementation by understanding how to use the tools available, and learn more how to examine, reflect, and adjust based upon a deeper understanding of student outcomes.
Register now: Understanding Your School Report Card
How Leadership Works
September 29, 9:30-11:30 a.m.
Presenter: Cathy Lassiter, Author, Former 35-year public school teacher, principal, and central office administrator
A leader's credibility impacts all aspects of a school and district effectiveness, including the climate and culture of the school and the sense of collective responsibility and efficacy that staff members feel. When leaders are credible, staff members are able to work in productive ways and significantly impact student’s learning. What specifically makes a leader credible in the eyes of staff members? Can credibility be intentionally built? If so, how does a leader build credibility? With Building Leader Credibility, learn how to attain the essential qualities of credibility that all school leaders need—trustworthiness, competence, dynamism, immediacy, and forward-thinking. Join Cathy to learn how to apply these traits to the work of the Ohio Improvement Process.
Register now: How Leadership Works
Two-Part Series: Data for School Improvement
October 11 & 25, 9-10:30 a.m. (all sessions)
Presenter: Carrie Sanchez, Director of Leadership & Learning, North Point Educational Service Center
October 11: Part 1: Making Your Data Meaningful
Data does not have to be a nemesis for building leaders. Data can be useful and meaningful and NOT a vehicle for confrontation. Part 1 of this two-part series will prepare leaders for the upcoming release of EVAAS and value-added data. Learn about the reports available and how to navigate the platform to maximize the information. This session will also connect to the Ohio Improvement Process (OIP) framework to help leaders identify critical areas of need and explore root cause analysis of the data available.
Register now: Part 1: Making Your Data Meaningful
October 25: Part 2: Making Your Data Meaningful
Part 2 of this series will include a brief review of Part 1 and then continue with deeper learning regarding value-added data, teacher reports, and student reports, and include coaching leaders in the areas of courageous conversations with teacher-based teams and individual teachers, leading change with data, and teaching teachers to use data for decision making. This session will also connect to the Ohio Improvement Process (OIP) framework to help leaders identify critical areas of need through instructional practices, as well as student outcomes, plan for implementation by reviewing SMART goals associated with instructional initiatives within their building and districts, and implement and monitor to use data tools and resources to have meaningful and change-inspiring with teachers, teams, and departments.
Register now: Part 2: Making Your Data Meaningful
Master Scheduling: Team Time IS Possible
November 29, 9-10:30 a.m.
Presenter: Carrie Sanchez, Director of Leadership & Learning, North Point Educational Service Center
Collaboration, data review, assessment sharing, student services—all of these elements are critical for student success. But when can they happen? Successful master schedules begin with the mindset of the leader. Only the school leader can truly understand the unique nuances of the entire school, and with that comes awesome leadership opportunities! This session will also connect to the Ohio Improvement Process (OIP) framework to help leaders identify critical needs, plan for implementation (it is so much more complex than just publishing a schedule), and Implement and monitor in order to fully determine the success or struggles within the school. Don't get stuck in, "This is how we have always done it" and open your thinking to new alternatives!
Register now: Master Scheduling: Team Time IS Possible