The event will look at how the school leadership team can promote both academic success and the learning environment by building community. We will focus on the urban school leader’s unique challenges and share how we can use those challenges and their solutions to help our students in our own environments. The event will allow the attendees to think about the principal and assistant principal’s role on creating and maintaining instructional supports, data analysis, and owning your student’s growth to mastery.

Each of our three featured presentations will have about 45-55 minutes to share information about their schools, their school’s learning/leadership teams, and to offer insight into their school and the role that an assistant principal/principal team may fill in any given year.

Leadership in urban schools is important for creating a vision of educational excellence and we all know that leaders in all our Tennessee Public Schools must communicate a vision, build a team, create a positive culture, and manage instructional leadership teams. In the media, we hear that urban schools face challenges such as poverty, race and class issues, and lack of funding. In recent years, the issues we once viewed as ‘urban’ are now front and center in our ‘suburban’ and ‘rural’ learning environments.

This event is planned as a first-step opportunity for all school leadership teams to learn from our urban school leaders, and for urban school leaders to build a state-wide team of support and to have a cohort to turn to when they wish to discuss their unique work.

***4 HOURS TASL APPROVED***