How Middle Leaders can Support Colleagues affected by Transition

How all leaders, but middle leaders in particular, use their time between now and the close of the term, will greatly impact their colleagues wellbeing when they break for the Summer months. This break will be incredibly important for reinvigorating you and your colleagues’ spirit and passion for teaching when school resumes. Two and a half years on, though, the pandemic is still a great source of anxiety and will impact these holidays in a variety of ways. Our colleagues may not get the holiday they are hoping for, but middle leaders can still ensure they get some peace of mind to help them return in the new term feeling reinvigorated.

In this webinar Michael Iannini will be joined by Jane Barron, Director of Training and Consulting at Safe Passage Across Networks (SPAN), to further explore transitions-care research and best practice, providing a solid foundation for Middle Leaders as they facilitate dialogue with and amongst team members to ensure a smooth transition into the Summer break. They will focus specifically on the experience and needs of faculty that are leaving their current schools, and how this will not only impact the students that await them at their new school, but the social and emotional toll it will have on their colleagues and students they are leaving behind. Attachment research indicates that the stayers will be impacted as much (if not more) by the transition of the leavers.

Both presenters will share their experience and advice for how middle leaders can facilitate dialog with and amongst team members to ensure a smooth transition into the Summer break. Here are three areas of leadership development that will be specifically reinforced in this webinar:

1. Meeting Facilitation Skills: Make dialogue more purposeful and ensure equity

2. Communication Skills: Actively Listen and Paraphrase key points that are surfaced

3. Consensus Building: Make sure every meeting ends with an agreement on actions to be taken