Warsaw Educators Participate in Seminar
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
By Staff Report-
On July 16 and 17, 10 educators from WCS participated in the second annual Indiana Principal Leadership Institute Summer Seminar at Indiana State University. IPLI is a two-year institute designed to address the professional needs of Indiana principals with an emphasis on student success. The institute increases a principal’s capacity to address the current needs of his or her school.
The focus of the first year of the institute is to strengthen a principal’s own leadership capacity. This summer, Randy Dahms, principal at Leesburg Elementary, and Dr. Jon Lippe, principal at Lakeview Middle School, began the first year of the institute.
Much of the work of the institute takes place within a regional cohort. Each cohort is made up of three to five administrators as well as a mentor assigned from Indiana State University. Dr. David Hoffert, superintendent of WCS, serves as a mentor with the institute and supports a cohort of five administrators that are in their second year of the program. There are three local members of Hoffert’s cohort: Lee Snider, principal at Harrison Elementary School; David Robertson, former principal at Jefferson Elementary School and recently named chief academic officer; and Kyle Carter, the newly named principal at Jefferson Elementary School.
The second year of the institute focuses on schoolwide leadership and developing a building-wide improvement plan. As part of the second-year summer institute, each building administrator is asked to bring two “teacher-leaders” from his or her building. Emily Grimm and Sarah South joined Snider from Harrison, and Angela Luecke and Mandy Duncan joined Carter from Jefferson. Each building-level team began the process of building a comprehensive schoolwide improvement plan. This work will continue throughout the 2014-15 school year.
The time spent at Indiana State proved to be very valuable, according to the press release.
Duncan, first-grade teacher at Jefferson, said, “IPLI was inspiring. It stretched me. It made me think about the next steps to help improve my teaching, my students, and my school.”
Grimm, third-grade teacher at Harrison, noted that the experience at IPLI was great for her because it helped challenge traditional ideals about grading and measuring students. She is looking forward to looking at what’s best for students when it comes to grading practices and measuring student progress.
The press release concludes, “As the start of the 2014-15 school year approaches, WCS is blessed to have so many leaders who are working hard in the ‘off season’ to better fulfill the WCS mission ‘to inspire and equip all students to continuously acquire and apply knowledge and skills while pursuing their dreams and enriching the lives of others.’”[[In-content Ad]]
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On July 16 and 17, 10 educators from WCS participated in the second annual Indiana Principal Leadership Institute Summer Seminar at Indiana State University. IPLI is a two-year institute designed to address the professional needs of Indiana principals with an emphasis on student success. The institute increases a principal’s capacity to address the current needs of his or her school.
The focus of the first year of the institute is to strengthen a principal’s own leadership capacity. This summer, Randy Dahms, principal at Leesburg Elementary, and Dr. Jon Lippe, principal at Lakeview Middle School, began the first year of the institute.
Much of the work of the institute takes place within a regional cohort. Each cohort is made up of three to five administrators as well as a mentor assigned from Indiana State University. Dr. David Hoffert, superintendent of WCS, serves as a mentor with the institute and supports a cohort of five administrators that are in their second year of the program. There are three local members of Hoffert’s cohort: Lee Snider, principal at Harrison Elementary School; David Robertson, former principal at Jefferson Elementary School and recently named chief academic officer; and Kyle Carter, the newly named principal at Jefferson Elementary School.
The second year of the institute focuses on schoolwide leadership and developing a building-wide improvement plan. As part of the second-year summer institute, each building administrator is asked to bring two “teacher-leaders” from his or her building. Emily Grimm and Sarah South joined Snider from Harrison, and Angela Luecke and Mandy Duncan joined Carter from Jefferson. Each building-level team began the process of building a comprehensive schoolwide improvement plan. This work will continue throughout the 2014-15 school year.
The time spent at Indiana State proved to be very valuable, according to the press release.
Duncan, first-grade teacher at Jefferson, said, “IPLI was inspiring. It stretched me. It made me think about the next steps to help improve my teaching, my students, and my school.”
Grimm, third-grade teacher at Harrison, noted that the experience at IPLI was great for her because it helped challenge traditional ideals about grading and measuring students. She is looking forward to looking at what’s best for students when it comes to grading practices and measuring student progress.
The press release concludes, “As the start of the 2014-15 school year approaches, WCS is blessed to have so many leaders who are working hard in the ‘off season’ to better fulfill the WCS mission ‘to inspire and equip all students to continuously acquire and apply knowledge and skills while pursuing their dreams and enriching the lives of others.’”[[In-content Ad]]
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