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AA # 1159

Leadership Capacity Through Teacher Leaders

Description 

School districts and school buildings across the state are recognizing the benefits of formalizing teacher leadership programs to improve instruction and student achievement. Participants will learn how schools have expanded teachers' roles and responsibilities and instituted rewards and recognition programs to give teacher leaders new and increased importance in improving classroom instruction. They will also explore the leadership characteristics and skills that successful teacher leaders must possess and how to initiate a teacher leader culture in one's school.

Date:  Tuesday, April 20, 2021 Monday, June 7, 2021

Time:  8:30 am – 3:00 pm

Location: CACC Building, Activity Room B, 2201 Toronto Road, Springfield

Fee:  ROE 51 Administrators - $135.00

  Others - $150.00

Presenter: Don Kachur

Donald S. Kachur is Professor Emeritus of Education from the Department of Curriculum and Instruction in the College of Education at Illinois State University (ISU), Normal, IL. While there, he served as the Director of Research, Grants, & Field Services in the College of Education from 1983-1999. He also served full-time as the Executive Director of the Illinois Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (Illinois ASCD) from 2001-2008. He brings to the consulting field a strong background in both the education and business fields in the areas of leadership, strategic planning, team building, group facilitation, communications, meeting design planning, grant writing, and professional development.