Leading and Supporting Student Centered Learning

MSAA Professional Development Workshop for Administrators, Principals, Assistant Principals, Special Education Leaders, School Leaders, Evaluation Team Leaders, Academic and Career Ed. Teachers

Leading and Supporting Student Centered Learning 

Participants will gain an understanding of student-centered learning and how it increases positive outcomes for schools. The workshop will focus on engaging with current information on student centered learning and connecting the relevance and benefits of this approach. The workshop will model this approach as it is conducted, and there is time for processing information and on implications for feasible first steps and specific actions.

The key takeaways: Knowledge of who we are teaching is as important as our expertise in what we are teaching. Student engagement: He who does the thinking, speaking, and work - does the learning.  

Participants will:

·         Share current understandings, practices and resources

·         Engage with the current thinking and research of student-centered learning comparing it to current practice and thinking

·         Analyze resources 

·         Establish an end goal, what will be brought to the learning organization as “action” for a starting point?

·         Plan first steps

When: Tuesday, March 4, 2025, from 8:30 am to 11:30 am

Delivery Method: In-Person Workshop

Location: The MSAA Office, 33 Forge Parkway, Franklin, MA

Presenter: Bruce Michitson, Seaside Educational Consultants

PD Hours: 3 in Content Area Leadership and Administration

Fees: Member $150 / Non-Member $205

MSAA Contact: Ethel Kawesa, ekawesa@msaa.net 

Bruce Michitson | Seaside Educational Consultants
Bruce is a Fellow of the Lynch Leadership Academy, Boston College. He served as a trained literacy coach, lead math teacher, and primary evaluator as Principal of Golden Hill School. Bruce served with the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, Principals’ Advisory Council during 2014 and 2015, focused on teacher evaluation and effectiveness and teacher leadership. He was a lead author of the “Building a School Culture that Supports Teacher Leadership” DESE resource. Bruce offers experience and a depth of knowledge in creating effective building-based leadership and employing productive educator evaluation that supports effective teaching.