4 EDCAL November 19, 2018
ACSA members line up at the registration desk.
Like many other committees and councils, the Retirement Committee held one of their meetings the
day before the Summit.
Leadership Summit Planning Committee Co-Chairs Katherine Castleberry and Jonathon Brunson
shared a few laughs with second general session attendees.
Keynote speaker Tim
Wise gave a stirring
presentation on rac-
ism in our society.
Executive Director Wes Smith welcomed members to the ESS luncheon.
Opening Doors for
Women in School Leadership
December 5, 2018 | Ontario
January 15, 2019 | Sacramento
February 28, 2019 | Pleasanton
REGISTRATION (and additional dates)
https://goo.gl/5fJgGb
A Day in the Life of
a Co-Administrator
December 14, 2018 | Victorville
January 17, 2019 | Porterville
REGISTRATION (and additional dates)
https://goo.gl/AHesT1
The Skillful
Certificated Evaluator
December 6, 2018 | Sacramento
January 9, 2019 | Ontario
February 27, 2019 | San Jose
REGISTRATION (and additional dates)
https://goo.gl/n2SPEm
CEL Institute the top professional
learning event for classified leaders
Now is the time to lock in the dates for the 2019 Classified Educational Leaders
Institute, Feb. 28-March 1 in Monterey.
The event is one of the only statewide professional development opportunities
specifically designed for leaders in business/fiscal services, human resources/
personnel, maintenance/operations, custodial, technology, facilities and student
services/instructional, including confidential and administrative assistants.
The speaker lineup and concurrent sessions for 2019 are robust. The Feb. 28 open-
ing session will feature Rob Martinez, assistant superintendent, Fairfield-Suisun
USD. He will be presenting on powerful leadership and will share ideas and
strategies to transform yourself into a powerful leader through transformational
resilience. Participants will learn to build their skills to connect with staff, use
positivity, and be thoughtful in process and practices, in order to build supportive
environments, no matter what your role or where you work.
The general session will feature Allison Kluger, co-instructor, Stanford’s
Graduate School of Business, on how to communicate like a leader. Kluger is a
former television executive who has been in the media business for more than 25
years and now teaches strategic communication, executive presence for women,
and personal branding at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. Her varied expe-
rience includes more than 10 years at ABC where she produced “Good Morning
America,” and was one of the original coordinating producers of “The View.” She
produced, and was an on-air host, for home shopping networks, created a website,
worked in interactive television and helped Al Gore start up Current TV.
March 1, the closing general session will feature Linda McFarland, founder/con-
sultant, Ascend2Success. She brings her professionalism, experience, stories and
humor to unleash the power of the leader within. Having supported more than a
dozen CEOs in Silicon Valley, McFarland shares her decades of experience through
stories that bring out the thoughtful lessons learned throughout her career. Her
passion for sharing her knowledge and understanding with other leaders led her to
launch a consulting company — Ascend2Success — to develop educational and
interactive training for assistants, event planners, and other support professionals.
A recent article at
content.acsa.org
offers three good rea-
sons to invest in PD:
• Learning and growth
will make you happier.
Professional develop-
ment improves your life,
both in and out of the
office. If you shake off
the stagnancy of inaction in any discipline, whether you are learning about finance
or social equity, you will propel yourself forward and feel better doing it. With
new skills and insights in your mental toolkit, you will find yourself with new
confidence wrought from stepping into a place of unfamiliarity, even insecurity,
that challenges you to do better and be future-focused.
• You will gain valuable and marketable skills. Proactivity is the mother of
foresight and new perspectives. You can learn about topics at PD events that you
would not otherwise have access to, or even the time to research. For example,
you could hear about other administrators’ best practices, gain soft skills like
presentation, better communication and research methodology, and see new data
on topical problems. There could be a learning challenge that impacts students in
your district, but you have not thought about that particular issue. Meanwhile, a
workshop leader at the PD conference has 10 great ideas on the topic.
• Investing in relationships pays off. ACSA’s professional development events
set the stage for you to make connections within California’s largest community of
education administrators. If you invest in your peers and make sure that they can
rely on you in turn, then your network will become a well of opportunities, stronger
conversations, and new ideas. It will be a support system you can fall back on if
problems ever arise.
Find out more about the Classified Educational Leaders Institute at www.acsa.
org/celinstitute. Register online at https://goo.gl/FqUdXF.