Webinar Recording: Flex This Superpower- A Learner-Centered Approach to Engaging Stakeholders

Learn how to flex this superpower: mobilizing your learning community (even the naysayers) as active participants and contributors toward advancing learning and innovation.

Hear from Devin Vodicka and Marlon Styles, both learner-centered leaders and former Superintendents, who have mobilized communities toward transformational change that resulted in improvements in areas ranging from culture and connectedness to academics to behavior.

They share strategic and practical advice on:
– Forming an effective guiding coalition
– Elevating, prioritizing, and getting student input
– Gathering input and gaining buy-in from educators
– Engaging parents, businesses, and local community to inform and support district goals

Devin and Marlon discuss approaches and share tools and examples to superpower school and district leaders advancing communities toward more learner-centered models of education.

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