Illinois Principals Association

The goal of the IPA Launching School Leader Network (LSLN) is to provide administrators who are new (or new to their school) with the skills, resources, and community of peers necessary to cultivate culture, assess systems, and understand the leadership necessary for the unique context of their learning organization. For an additional fee, 20, 40 or 60 hours of mentoring is available to individual administrators.

This network is designed to serve school leaders who are in their first or second year as a school leader.

Lynne Woodrum

Program Information

Learning Objectives

  1. Examine the School Leader Paradigm to understand the personal, social and systems intelligences needed to effectively lead a learning organization.
  2. Learn strategies for building relationships with all stakeholders.
  3. Understand how to assess local context and culture foundations.
  4. Explore personal and organizational management systems.
  5. Establish a professional learning network for growth and support.

Leading Objectives

  1. Impart their why, both verbally and nonverbally, through multiple communication channels.
  2. Apply questioning techniques and coaching strategies that lead to educator reflection on practice and impact.
  3. Identify their school’s most critical problems of practice within the School Leader Paradigm.
  4. Develop clear processes for time and task management.
  5. Identify and connect with their PLN thought leaders and accountability partners.

Network Team

Network Leader


Dr. Herschel Hannah
Retired

Dr. Hannah will present the activities during highly interactive sessions and provide new learning and application strategies through knowledge sharing, reflection and collegial discussion. Participants will receive a rich variety of resources and tools to support their leadership development. In addition, Team Leaders will be available to individually support network participants throughout the program.

Dr. Hannah was the Assistant Superintendent of Human Resources with Bloomington Public Schools District 87 until the 2019 school year when he retired. His 31 years as an educator began with teaching and coaching health, science, and physical education at Columbia Middle School in Peoria. He has held assignments as an Assistant High School Principal, Middle School Principal, and High School Principal before moving to district cabinet level assignments as Associate Superintendent in District 150 and his last assignment as Assistant Superintendent of Human Resources in District 87. Read more about Dr. Hanna here.

Details

Registration

IPA Member: $900
Non-IPA Member: $1,350
Special IPA member rate offered for participants in the network that have never been an IPA member before.
Network registration includes Annual Conference Sunday reception and Monday Annual Conference attendance. Tuesday of the Annual Conference can be added on for an extra $50

PDF Registration Form

Dates

August 3-4, 2021 (Tuesday and Wednesday)
Tuesday: 8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Wednesday: 8:00 am – 4:00 pm
Bloomington-Normal Marriott Hotel & Conference Center

October 24-25, 2021 (Sunday and Monday)
Sunday: 2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. (Network Session)
Sunday: 6:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. (IPA Annual Conference Reception)
Peoria Marriott Pere Marquette

Monday: 8:00 am – 4:15 pm (IPA Annual Conference Day 1)
Peoria Civic Center

January 13, 2022 (Thursday)
8:00 am – 4:00 pm
Bloomington-Normal Marriott Hotel & Conference Center

March 2, 2022 (Wednesday)
8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Bloomington-Normal Marriott Hotel & Conference Center

Mentoring

New principals, assistant and associate principals, and administrators face new tasks, responsibilities, and decisions on a regular basis and need an “expert” to not only coach but to mentor and provide instructional mentoring. As part of the comprehensive leadership development offered by the Illinois Principals Association, highly trained and experienced mentors are available to IPA professional development program participants and districts. Find out more here.

Program Sponsors