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May 26, 2025 at 4:00 pm MTN
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Facilitator: Tim Cusack
Date:May 30, 2025
Time:8:30 am to 3:30 pm MTN
Cost:
$275.00
Location: Edmonton (ERLC Office at Elmwood School)
Room 17/18, 16325 - 83 Avenue
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Session Code: 25-LE-344
Focus: Leadership

Target Audience

Those Aspiring to become Principal, Vice-Principal

Also Recommended For

District Leaders, Administrators

About this Learning Opportunity

Venue in Edmonton, Alberta forth coming

The best way to prepare aspiring leaders for principalship is to offer hands-on opportunities to develop the skills they’ll need to succeed in the role. Being a principal call for originality, innovation, and the ability to work under pressure. Yet so few assistant principals and other aspiring leaders actually get to develop these competencies in meaningful ways that prepare them to lead a school with confidence.

Leader Ready presents a practical framework that walks aspiring school leaders along the path to strong and independent principalship by using a mix of professional knowledge, modeling, coaching, guided experiences, and mastery experiences. Full of processes, action steps, and examples from the field, features include:

  • A research-based plan for creating better conditions for aspiring leaders
  • Guidance for achieving systemic professional growth throughout the school year
  • Voices of leaders, aspiring leaders, and experts from the field.
  • Analysis of school-leadership standards to inform practice

The Implementation of four pathways to prepare aspiring leaders 

A deeper dive into the implementation of the four pathways through the facilitation of participant data gathering, data interpretation, determining leadership dispositions intentions, and identifying areas for growth and development.

Participants will be introduced to the research behind the Leader Ready text and will also be introduced to the implementation process of the four pathways as presented in the text.

Schedule

8:30 am -  9:00 am   Registration
9:00 am -  9:45 am   Research Overview
9:45 am -  10:30 am   Raising the bar on leadership standadrs - practical exercise
10:30 am -  10:45 am   Wellness Break
10:45 am -  11:45 am   Creating a Culture for Implementation
11:45 am -  12:45 pm   Lunch
12:45 pm -  2:00 pm   Planning Guided Leadership Experiences
2:00 pm -  2:15 pm   Wellness Break
2:15 pm -  3:00 pm   Attaining Mastery experiences
3:00 pm -  3:30 pm   Wrap up / goal setting / Q&A

To obtain copies of the book:

Leader Ready: Four pathways to prepare aspiring school leaders (Cusack & Bustamante, 2023). Corwin Press.

Leader Ready use Code EVENTS25 for discounts (30% and free shipping)

Or

Leader Ready: 4 Pathways to Prepare Aspiring School Leaders : Cusack, Tim, Bustamante, Vince: Amazon.ca: Books (no discounts available).

This session addresses the LQS competencies

  • 2. Modeling Commitment to Professional Learning
  • 4. Leading a Learning Community

This session addresses the TQS competencies

  • 2. Engaging in Career-Long Learning
  • 3. Demonstrating a Professional Body of Knowledge

This session is being offered on a cost recovery basis.

About the Facilitator

Tim Cusack, Ed.D

Tim Cusack, Ed.D, has thirty-two years experience as a classroom teacher, assistant principal, principal, and superintendent. Having taught in rural boards in northern and southern Alberta, Tim also has ten years of experience as school leader (K-12) and eight years of experience as a system leader of a large urban board.

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