SOFG National Workshop

Service Description

Elevate your school leadership skills with our SOFG Regional Training workshop, hosted in partnership with the Council of the Great City Schools. This workshop is designed for education leaders who desire to support school systems that are laser focused on improving student outcomes. Over the course of two consecutive days, participants will gain valuable insight to lead effective governance teams (the full school board and superintendent). The workshop is structured to create the context for adult behavior change by layering knowledge and skills for effective governing behaviors, but only after evidence of a new mindset has emerged. This approach has proven to inspire adult behavior change in school systems across the country. In practice, this looks like: -Creating a safe space in which school board members gain an awareness of the areas in which their governing team is not functioning as intended. -Creating a safe space in which school board members acknowledge the dissonance between their stated values and their lived values—that despite their espoused values, their actions are nevertheless contributing to dysfunction—both individually and collectively. -In the space for action that acknowledgment creates, the workshop provides new evidence around optimal school board behavior (knowledge) and new tools for deploying the behaviors (skills).