2024 ACSA Women in School Leadership Forum

There’s dozens of leadership styles to try on, but choosing one off-the-rack can feel inauthentic, like putting on armor or wearing someone else’s clothes. How can you create a leadership identity that’s completely authentic? The answer lies in the one-of-a-kind design of your brain at its very best. Join PhD neuroscientist and former school superintendent, Irene Salter, to identify the best in yourself and use it to bring out the best in others.

After this unusually interactive keynote, you'll be able to:

• Take the first five steps towards designing a truly authentic leadership style.
• Identify what makes your brain and leadership completely unique.
• Empower others by naming their strengths, values, passion, vision, and purpose.

This workshop will be incorporating a vision board session into a Women in Leadership Conference can create a dynamic and impactful experience. It provides participants with a powerful tool for personal and professional development and encourages a holistic approach to leadership, blending vision, creativity, and strategic planning.

Inspirational speakers will tell their stories while each attendee creates a vision board. All supplies will be provided for one vision board per person. Music, candles, and other creativity-enhancing features will be set up in the workshop to help create a soothing and vision-focused environment.

Creating a vision board at a Women in Leadership Conference offers numerous benefits that align with the goals of empowering and inspiring women leaders

Clarifying Goals and Aspirations
Focus and Clarity:
Vision boards help participants clearly define their personal and professional goals. This process can provide a focused path for their leadership journey.

Visual Representation:
Having a visual representation of their goals can make abstract ideas more concrete and actionable.
Enhancing Motivation and Inspiration

Daily Motivation:
Seeing their vision board regularly can serve as a daily reminder of their aspirations, keeping them motivated and aligned with their long-term objectives.

Emotional Connection:
Creating a vision board is an emotional and creative process. It helps participants connect deeply with their dreams, making them more committed to achieving them.
Empowerment and Personal Growth

Empowerment:
The process of envisioning their future and taking steps to visualize it can be empowering, boosting confidence and self-belief among women leaders.

Personal Reflection:
It provides an opportunity for introspection, allowing participants to reflect on their values, strengths, and areas for growth.
Building Community and Networking

Shared Experiences:
Creating vision boards in a group setting fosters a sense of community. Participants can share their goals and support each other, building stronger networks and relationships.

Inspiration from Peers:
Seeing the diverse goals and dreams of other women leaders can be inspiring and can provide new ideas and perspectives.
Practical Benefits

Goal Setting and Planning:
Vision boards can be a starting point for more detailed goal setting and strategic planning. They help in breaking down long-term goals into actionable steps.

Accountability:
Sharing vision boards with others can create a sense of accountability, encouraging participants to follow through on their plans.
Stress Relief and Creativity

Creative Outlet:
The act of creating a vision board is a relaxing and creative process, which can reduce stress and enhance overall well-being.

Mindfulness:
It encourages mindfulness, allowing participants to focus on the present moment and their true desires.
Professional Development

Leadership Skills:
Vision boards can help women leaders visualize and plan for their professional development, identifying key areas for skill enhancement and career growth.

Strategic Thinking:
The process promotes strategic thinking, helping leaders to align their personal goals with their professional responsibilities and organizational objectives.
Encouraging Positive Change

Positive Mindset:
Vision boards reinforce a positive mindset, which is crucial for overcoming challenges and achieving success in leadership roles.

Chronic Absenteeism is a major issue, both nationally and in California specifically. In California, chronic absenteeism rates, or the percentage of students missing 10% of school days, was 25% (a decade ago it was 12%). Student attendance is often the first and clearest indicator of engagement and readiness to learn. Lack of student attendance also has major financial consequences for school districts.
Now more than ever, schools and districts need proven strategies to reduce student absenteeism - and to quickly address attendance issues before they become chronic.
In this session, we will talk about:

• Take a proactive approach to uncovering and addressing non-academic barriers to learning improved academic performance, reduces absenteeism, increased graduation rates, fewer disciplinary actions, and—most importantly— happier students.
• Use an early warning system alert so teams can respond based on chronic absenteeism, failing grades, suspension, and other factors to identify at-risk students in need of more intensive supports
• Strengthen MTSS plans and interventions with whole child data.
• Communicating with families and communities to reverse common misconceptions about absenteeism