Audience

Participation is restricted to elementary, middle, and secondary principals.

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) Principals: Gold Strand includes three workshops designed to support you in 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:

Developing Your People

November 12, 2024

Employee development is critical for grooming future leaders. As greater numbers of Gen X principals are retiring, the development of individuals in the assistant principalship role is especially critical.  Recent focus group data suggests that recently promoted principals felt inadequately prepared for the role upon entering the job.

One way to create a pipeline is to prime an existing employee for engagement and development through formal reviews and development.  Without providing assistant principals with new responsibilities, training for new skills, and ongoing feedback, leaders are leaving potential future principals unprepared.  By simply creating a development plan and having a conversation with the employee about her or his career direction, leaders can greatly improve morale and productivity while also developing the next generation of school leaders.

In this workshop, you will learn keys to effectively developing the skills of current APs as well as other staff and faculty, including how to have a conversation about development, how to guide employees to define their own outcomes, various forms of development for job enrichment, and the components of an individual development plan. As a result, you will be better able to guide each employee and support him or her to craft an individualized path that benefits both you and the employee. 

Productive Conflict

January 28, 2025

In this session participants will be provided with a learning experience that increases self-awareness of behaviors used during conflict and increases knowledge of how to effectively respond during the uncomfortable and unavoidable challenges of workplace conflict. Rather than focus on a step-by-step process for conflict resolution, content offers personalized techniques to curb destructive behaviors so that conflict can become more productive, ultimately improving workplace relationships and results.

Leading When Overwhelmed and Pressured

February 27, 2025

Principals encounter many stressors during the day—due dates, meetings, disagreements, difficult situations, and a never-ending flow of assignments. As you try to balance all these situations while working 50 hours or more a week, emotional resolve may start to weaken. When this happens, you begin to lose your patience, find your job to be less meaningful, and may even develop health issues.  This session is designed to give participants the tools needed to identify workplace stressors, end self-defeating talk, build communicative structures, and deal more calmly with change. 

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 all 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 1, 2025.
• 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 15, 2024.
• 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 15, 2024.
• Cancellations received after October 15, 2024, will not be refunded.