New Directors | September 17, 2024
Session 1 – September 17, 2024
Quora Education Center
Participant List
Facilitators: Melanie Kray, Holle Spessard, Malai Turnbull
Quora Education Center
Participant List
Facilitators: Melanie Kray, Holle Spessard, Malai Turnbull
8:00-8:30
Continental Breakfast
8:30-9:00
Warm Welcome and Check-in
Melanie Kray, Executive Director of Special Services, Southwest Metro
9:00-10:15
Understanding how your Personality Impacts Your Leadership
Holle Spessard, Director, Special Education Services, South Central Service Cooperative
What Color is Your Personality - Carol Ritberger
Managing People . . . . What’s Personality Got to Do with It? - Carol Ritberger
10:15-10:30
Connect and Break
10:30-12:00
Effective Team Meetings
Nicole Woodward, Executive Director, SCRED
Infrastructure of Partnership
Meeting Makover
Death by Meeting
GIF MoodMeters
12:00-12:30
Lunch and Learn
12:30-1:00
Effective Meetings - what are you doing that’s working/where’s the struggle?
Holle, Melanie and Malai
1:00-2:30
Leadership Lessons Learned
Heidi Nistler, Assistant Superintendent of Specialized Services, St Paul Public Schools
2:30-2:45
Connect and Break
2:45-3:30
So You Wanted to be a District Level Leader?
Malai Turnbull, Special Education Services Supervisor, Eastern Carver County and
Lori Zimmerman, Director of Professional Learning, MASA and MASE
3:30-4:00
White Board Agenda or Scenarios
Whole Group
Melanie and Malai
Continental Breakfast
8:30-9:00
Warm Welcome and Check-in
Melanie Kray, Executive Director of Special Services, Southwest Metro
9:00-10:15
Understanding how your Personality Impacts Your Leadership
Holle Spessard, Director, Special Education Services, South Central Service Cooperative
What Color is Your Personality - Carol Ritberger
Managing People . . . . What’s Personality Got to Do with It? - Carol Ritberger
10:15-10:30
Connect and Break
10:30-12:00
Effective Team Meetings
Nicole Woodward, Executive Director, SCRED
Infrastructure of Partnership
Meeting Makover
Death by Meeting
GIF MoodMeters
12:00-12:30
Lunch and Learn
12:30-1:00
Effective Meetings - what are you doing that’s working/where’s the struggle?
Holle, Melanie and Malai
1:00-2:30
Leadership Lessons Learned
Heidi Nistler, Assistant Superintendent of Specialized Services, St Paul Public Schools
2:30-2:45
Connect and Break
2:45-3:30
So You Wanted to be a District Level Leader?
Malai Turnbull, Special Education Services Supervisor, Eastern Carver County and
Lori Zimmerman, Director of Professional Learning, MASA and MASE
3:30-4:00
White Board Agenda or Scenarios
Whole Group
Melanie and Malai