Women in Leadership Institute (October 2019)

OUTCOMES:
The Women in Leadership Institute will support you to:
• expand your strategies for addressing bias, barriers and
stereotyping female leaders
• hone your communication skills for addressing hostility,
conflict and misperception
• study your problem of practice with thought leaders who
share common challenges
• analyze the attributes of psychological safety and trust,
and how you intentionally build it with your administrators and school
• strengthen your network of women leaders for support,
critical friends and thought partners
• harness your inner strength, self-reliance and self-care
skills
AGENDA:
Why do I choose leadership?
Analyzing “Women in Leadership” profiles
Honing your executive presence: The Power of Your Story
Preparing and sharing your vision statement and “Compelling
Why”
Building your community of female networking and support
What skillsets do I need to be conscious and intentional
about?
Building intentional trust
Creating psychological safety
Addressing stereotyping, bias and barriers
How do I reframe conflict as positive energy?
Navigating through confrontation, conflict and hostility
Communicating with clarity
Addressing problems of practice
How do I train for a leadership marathon run?
Embracing conscious and intentional self-care
Expanding my resilience, self-reliance and self-trust
Action planning and next steps
MEET DR. FRAN PROLMAN
The founder, president and senior consultant of The Learning
Collaborative, Fran Prolman is an internationally recognized teacher,
administrator, author, consultant and keynote speaker. She is known for
her depth of knowledge, dynamism, energy, practical application and proven track
record of results.
Fran earned her Doctorate in Teacher Training, International
Education and Organizational Development from George Washington University and
a Master’s degree in Educational Administration and Curriculum and Instruction
from the University of Pennsylvania. She has been a two-time Fulbright
Scholar in both India and Israel, and has presented numerous papers, workshops
and keynote speeches nationally and internationally.
Fran brings 30 years of experience providing multifaceted
work with organizations and school systems throughout the United States and the
world. She was a member of the first Understanding by Design trainer
cadre for ASCD designing curriculum training throughout the United States, a
faculty member for ASCD and a senior consultant at Research for Better Teaching
training trainers and educating thousands of administrators and teachers in
effective learning practice. Fran focuses on building human capacity through a
variety of avenues. She facilitates leadership retreats for teachers,
administrators and executives; delivers organization-wide keynote speeches and
workshops, coaches to build highly functional teams; assists organizations and
teams in the appropriate use of data, designs professional growth and
evaluation systems and brings insight to the change process.
She is a frequent presenter for the U.S. Department of
State, European Council of International Schools, the Association for
Supervision and Curriculum Development, Central and Eastern European Schools
Association, Near East South Asia Association of International Schools, African
Association of International Schools, the Tri-Association for the Caribbean and
Central America and numerous client school systems in the United States.
Fran is the author of Building Your Instructional
Leadership and Transforming Schools: Leading and Learning in Complex
Systems.
AASA would like
to thank Horace Mann for providing support to help make this program possible.
For more information, please contact Valerie Truesdale, Assistant
Executive Director, Leadership Network, at vtruesdale@aasa.or