A Motivated School: Quantum Learning and Leadership in Practice


Quantum Learning addresses your Academy needs with this Illinois Administration Academy course (catalog program #723).

This program guides school administrators, particularly principals and assistant principals, in developing a new definition of leadership designed to stimulate greater leadership capacity and orchestrate sustainable motivation throughout the educational organization using the Quantum Learning System. The goal of this program is to give school administrators new tools for improving leadership through the use of specific initiatives that will upgrade both staff and student motivation and performance.

Professional Development Time: 6.00 hours

Participant Outcomes

Outcome #1: Description
Participants learn and gain strategies for the application of a new working definition of leadership that includes positive modeling, positive motivation, and the implementation of specific school initiatives.
Outcome #1: Demonstrating Gained Knowledge / Skills
Participants apply the new definition of leadership to their specific school assignment and teach these concepts to teaching and administrative staff in a deliberate effort to upgrade leadership throughout their organization.

Outcome #2 Description
Participants learn and can identify specific distinctions between leadership and administration in the educational organization and discover how this relationship can directly influence school improvement in their organization.
Outcome #2 Demonstrating Gained Knowledge / Skills
Participants apply knowledge about the relationship between leadership and administration in describing their own school. Participants teach these important distinctions to members of their own administrative and teaching staff.

Outcome #3 Description
Participants understand the concept of durable or sustainable motivation and know specific systemic and personal leadership initiatives that are effective for raising the level of motivation in the entire educational organization.
Outcome #3 Demonstrating Gained Knowledge / Skills
Participants describe specific initiatives that could be used in their organization to upgrade the level of durable or sustainable motivation in their organization. Participants implement initiatives in their own organizations.

Outcome #4 Description
Participants understand the four leadership connections for improving the effectiveness of an educational organization. These include the context connection, cognitive connection, character connection, and the classroom connection. Participants understand how these connections influence balanced leadership and have a new repertoire of leadership initiatives for each connection. Participants are motivated and excited to apply these leadership initiatives in their own school organization.
Outcome #4 Demonstrating Gained Knowledge / Skills
Participants describe specific leadership initiatives for each of the four leadership connections and describe how they can implement these initiatives in their own organization. Participants implement leadership initiatives in their organization.

Registration Information

Tuition
$275 per person, includes lunch and course material
$265 per person with groups of 3 or more

Course Material
Quantum Learning for Administrators course manual
Book: Quantum Learning and Instructional Leadership in Practice by John Parks LeTellier
Book: Quantum Teaching by Bobbi DePorter, Mark Reardon, and Sara Singer-Nourie
PowerPoint: Quantum Learning and Leadership by John Parks Le Tellier

Payment Methods
Pay by check, PO or credit card

Register online or download a registration form which you can fax or mail in. Please call 1-800-285-3276, ext. 112 if you have any questions.