Senior Fellow Institutes 2024–2025
At PASL, our Neubauer Fellows are Fellows forever. We offer Senior Fellows focused professional development opportunities, providing continuous learning experiences that build capacity to sustain ongoing student and school growth.
As part of our commitment to lifelong learning and informed by feedback from Senior Fellows on our Practitioner Advisory Committee, we are offering Senior Fellow Institutes, a series of multiple-session learning opportunities that address topics identified by Senior Fellows as relevant, timely, and needed to support their practice. Senior Fellow Institutes seek to balance one-off professional learning opportunities and full-year learning arcs, providing connected learning experiences that complement one another and can be experienced individually or as a sequence.
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Overview
Each Senior Fellow Institute will be presented with full days of learning incorporating at least two sessions. To enhance Senior Fellows’ learnings with a combination of national knowledge and local expertise, we plan to structure the day to feature a national researcher, practitioner, or thought leader in the morning followed by at least one session led by a local expert (and ideally a Senior Fellow).
Content
Senior Fellow Institute sessions will be built around four priority areas that are applicable to all Fellows regardless of school system. Session content will focus on tools to:
- Accelerate academic achievement
- Partner with families and community
- Improve safety and well-being
- Recruit and retain diverse and highly effective educators
Each day of Institute will be focused on a theme within each of these priorities, with each theme connected to the next throughout the year so that Senior Fellows who attend multiple Institutes can build upon the work from Institute to Institute.
Fall Senior Fellow Institute: October 24, 2024
Eligible for Act 45 Credit
Join us for “Trauma Informed Leadership: Practical Strategies for Student Well Being,” a comprehensive session designed to enhance your school’s Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) to serve all of your students, including those with highest mental health needs. This session will guide you through building capacity, improving systems, and developing external partnerships essential for a trauma-informed approach. Featuring medical research from a renowned child psychologist, best practices from Faiza Jackson, Director of Social Work for Alexandria Public Schools, and interactive small group breakouts with Senior Fellows, this session equips educational leaders with the practical strategies needed to support student well-being effectively.
Objectives
- Expand research-based knowledge and skills to effectively implement trauma-informed practices within their school’s MTSS framework.
- Develop and refine school systems and staff capacity to better support students, especially those with more significant mental health needs.
- Create and strengthen external partnerships with mental health professionals and organizations to support students in need of Tier III services.
Leadership Competency and Skill: Equity – Seeks to make school more inclusive, respectful, supportive, and safe, through research-based strategies to maintain culturally sustaining and equity-focused mental health and behavioral interventions for continuous student growth and improvement.
Work Product: Improved Strategies for Tier I and Tier II of your MTSS as well as strategies to create external relationships for Tier III.
Additional Proposed Dates
December 2024
February and April 2025
Questions?
Contact Program Director Matt Kelley:
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Don’t wait. Space is limited and registration will close when each session reaches capacity. If you’d still like to learn more, view our Senior Fellow Institutes Overview PDF below.