Curriculum Leadership Academy: Leading a Learning Organization
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!
Book cover: “Deep Learning”
Course Details
Dates: October 2021-May 2022 (October 22, November 19, January 21, March 25, May 20)
*Additional participation in online discussion and reflection on learning and growth required for course.
Time: 9:00-3:30 (light breakfast/lunch provided at in-person sessions)
Cost: $1,475 (3 Graduate Credits from Saint Michael’s College)
Target Audience: Current and Aspiring Curriculum Leaders, Teacher Leaders
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).
Text: “Deep Learning: Engage the World Change the World “ by Michael Fullan, Joanne Quinn and Joanne McEachen
About the Facilitators
Meghan Grube
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
Violet Nichols
Violet Nichols is the Executive Director of Learning for the South Burlington School District. She is a Vermont native who has worked nationally and internationally as a public school teacher, STEM instructor, instructional coach and consultant. Violet’s work centers around increasing equity within systems through student agency, cohesion-building and research-based practices.