Audience

Participation is restricted to district-level leaders.

Pre-registration and payment are required to attend all CEEL workshops. No walk-ins will be accepted.

If you do not receive a confirmation email, please call the SCASA office at (803) 798-8380.

The Center for Executive Education Leadership (CEEL) District-Level Leaders: Gold Strand includes three workshops designed to support your professional and personal growth. Participants may register for all three sessions at a reduced price or may register for each session individually.  

Descriptions for each session are listed below:

Transformational Leadership

November 17, 2021

In this session, we will explore the idea of transformational leadership—the kind of leadership that causes change in systems.  It creates valuable and positive change in followers with the end goal of developing followers into leaders. This session will walk participants through four components of transformational leadership to support district administrators in efforts to make a real difference toward a shared vision of positive change.

Leading the Unleadable - Book Study

January 11, 2022

All leaders have to deal with difficult people from time to time.  So what do we do?  Pull them off the project, chastise them, move them to be someone else’s problem?  Too often leaders ignore problems for too long because they’re afraid of conflict – or, if they do address something, they do it poorly because of inexperience or not knowing what to do.  Not acting can damage everyone around the difficult person.  This session will support district administrators to understand how to handle the most troublesome situations, develop the radar to spot trouble early and deal with it, and how to prevent problems in the first place. 

A few weeks prior to the session, you will be receiving the book Leading the Unleadable, by Alan Willett, to prepare for your participation. 

Moral and Ethical Leadership

February 23, 2022

Working in an environment with unethical leaders can have a negative impact on organizational trust, team-building, communication, and morale. Ethical behavior tends to be a broad term, encompassing accountability, professionalism, and respect. This can make pinpointing behaviors to change difficult. Sometimes individual character changes are in order, but sometimes a district or school needs to systematically change its overall culture.   In this course district office leaders will learn how to pinpoint unethical behavior, create a plan for an effective ethics program, and deal with unethical staff/leaders.  

Payment 

• Online registration must be paid by credit card.
  • SCASA Members - $600 (Must be logged in to see this price)
  • Non SCASA Members - $1125
• To pay by check, please click here to print a registration form to include along with your check.
  • Even if you are paying by check, please log in and update your profile. 
• After completing your payment, you will receive a confirmation email for the strand and individual sessions.
• SCASA does not accept purchase orders. 

Fellowships Available

• Fellowships are available for those who both register for the series and attend each full-day session in the series.
  • 50% for aspiring leaders and assistant principals (ALL school districts)
  • 50% for district-level leaders and principals (Plaintiff school districts only)
• Fellowships are in the form of a reimbursement payment to school districts after series completion. Reimbursements will be submitted to school districts by May 5, 2022.
• In the event the reimbursement should be made payable to the participant, SCASA will require that an authorization form be completed and signed by an official in the district office accounting department.

Cancellation Policy

• Because of the special rate provided for registration in all three sessions, cancellations must be made by October 20, 2021.
• Cancellations are subject to a $120 fee, to be deducted from the fees incurred at the time of registration.
• Cancellations must be submitted in writing to april@scasa.org by October 20, 2021.
• Cancellations received after October 20, 2021, will not be refunded.