Audience

Participation is restricted to district-level leaders.

NOTE:  Participants will not be permitted to register to attend this strand with their subordinates or supervisor. 

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 1, 2023

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 leaders in efforts to make a real difference toward a shared vision of positive change.

Fast Forward: Changes Leaders Must Embrace (Book Study)

January 11, 2024

Change is so rapid today that education leaders must do more than stay the course to be successful.  Good leaders adapt and shift.  If leaders are not nimble and ready to adapt, they won’t survive.  They cannot be the same, think the same, and act the same if they hope to be successful in a world that does not remain the same.  In a book study format, participants will learn the behavioral shifts necessary to keep innovating, improving, and influencing others to their highest level of success in today’s high-change environment.  

A few weeks prior to the session, you will be receiving the book Leadershift, by John Maxwell, to prepare for your participation. 

Moral and Ethical Leadership

February 28, 2024

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 - $700 (Must be logged in to see this price)
  • Non SCASA Members - $1,400
• 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 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 2, 2024.
• 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's accounting department.

Cancellation Policy

• Because of the special rate provided for registration in all three sessions, cancellations must be made by October 4, 2023.
• Cancellations are subject to a $140 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 4, 2023.
• Cancellations received after October 4, 2023, will not be refunded.