The ACT (Arbor Center for Teaching) School Leadership Program is an intensive series of seminars organized and conducted by Kit Abel Hawkins, founder of Arbor School of Arts & Sciences and ACT, designed to help participants identify the elements that must be considered and integrated in reinventing or creating schools of any kind.
Structured for the working professional, the seminars can take place during the summer or the school year. The beginning sessions serve as an introduction to the essential questions that must be posed in building an institution devoted to children's full development. Subsequent sessions assist educators in fleshing out the answers to these questions in the context of their own developing school ideas. On-going support beyond the first year is also available. Call to discuss session dates.
Sessions I & IV: Mission, Educational Philosophy, Administrative & Governance Structure
Sessions II & VII: Finances, Facilities, Bureaucracies
Sessions III & VIII: Curriculum, Assessment, Institutional Practice
Sessions IV & IX: Hiring, Staff Development, Evaluation
Sessions V & X: Marketing, Admissions, Development