SURN Leadership Conference

This is an opportunity for school leaders to share with other educators, discuss topics with leading researchers, reflect on the prior school year, be inspired, and plan for the upcoming year.

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Amy C. Colley, Executive Director, SURN

Finding Coherence in Complex Systems

In this active, hands-on, minds-on session participants will explore multiple options for increasing student voice in schools and classrooms and desi?

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Deepening Learning
Securing Accountability

Decades of research have identified school-level variables that are related to student learning. School leaders have the ability to directly influenc?

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Focusing Direction
Cultivating Collaborative Cultures

Learn about a division-wide approach to embedding STEM in grades PK-12 that utilizes performance-based assessments and STEM competitions to develop s?

Conference Strand(s)
Cultivating Collaborative Cultures
Deepening Learning
Securing Accountability

In this session, participants will explore three dimensions of school climate related to vibrant learning environments: enlivened minds, adventurous ?

Conference Strand(s)
Cultivating Collaborative Cultures
Deepening Learning

Growing a culture that embraces deeper learning and the inclusion of 21^st century competencies does not happen overnight or through one single initia?

Conference Strand(s)
Focusing Direction
Cultivating Collaborative Cultures
Deepening Learning

Participants will leverage the design thinking process and a collection of open educational resources to reframe instructional planning to better mee?

Conference Strand(s)
Cultivating Collaborative Cultures
Deepening Learning

This session is designed to support participants' ability to measure and strengthen the impact of their professional learning initiatives on teacher ?

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Focusing Direction
Securing Accountability

How do you foster multiple visions of innovation simultaneously across an organization? Can you cultivate collaboration when groups within t ?

Conference Strand(s)
Focusing Direction
Cultivating Collaborative Cultures
Deepening Learning
Securing Accountability

Come join this fun beginner class and learn the tools you need to draw visual notes. Some of you may be thinking, "but I can't draw!" Well, if you ca?

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Deepening Learning

Michael Fullan's The Six Secrets of Change: What The Best Leaders Do To Help Their Organizations Survive and Thrive challenges us to consider six th?

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Focusing Direction
Cultivating Collaborative Cultures
Securing Accountability

The Compelling Why: Teaching for Transfer

Amy C. Colley, Executive Director, SURN

Featuring Two Drummers' food truck Offbeat Eats, local band The Dogstreet Boys, and a cash bar, we've provided the setting for an informal time to ?

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Swimming in the Deep End: What Does it Take?

Impactful critical thinking, creative thinking, and communication all require a well-developed sense of wonder and inquiry. How do we as educators ev?

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Cultivating Collaborative Cultures
Deepening Learning

This follow up workshop to the morning?s keynote will provide support, a laugh, and some cognitive, social and psychological resources to help you co?

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Cultivation Collaborative Cultures

Join a team of teachers and administrators from Kellam HS, VBCPS, as they share their journey to develop a shared vision--one that reimagines the hig?

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Deepening Learning
Securing Accountability

Transfer is the practice of applying knowledge from a familiar context to an unfamiliar one. Guiding this change is our challenge as instructional le?

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Deepening Learning
Securing Accountability

In 2017, Green Run High School, a public high school in Virginia Beach, VA received a High School Program Innovation grant from the Virginia Departme?

Conference Strand(s)
Deepening Learning
Securing Accountability

Buffet lunch served in the Professional Development Center Concourse

Deeper Leading, Deeper Learning

Amy C. Colley, Executive Director, SURN

Open workspace at your tables for conversations focused on the take-aways from the conference.