PRESENTATIONS

Email jdumont@gsacrd.ab.ca to book a presentation!

LEADERSHIP - IT'S ALL ABOUT CONNECTION

During my career in education, as a teacher, consultant, counsellor and school leader, I have come to realize that the most important factor in being effective in my role is connection!  Leadership literature discusses the importance of relationships and building those connections in our school, but what does that look like in action? In this presentation, I will share my journey to school leadership and how connections have be key to having a positive impact in my school. I will also share my philosophy around service leadership and how to effectively engage staff.  Ultimately, our challenge is to find effective strategies that promote opportunities to create healthy connections for everyone, because connections increases staff wellness, resilience and motivation! It’s all about connection.

See this Blog post for more information.

ENGAGING ALL LEARNERS

This session will provide a narrative as the presenter journeys participants through the changes that were implemented at an elementary school that focused on engagement.  These changes had a dramatic positive impact on the school culture and helped create a supportive learning environment for students, staff and the community.  The presenter will share the strategies that were implemented over three years to create this positive change and participants can take elements from this experience to use in their own professional practice.

Strategies for Engagement

• Focus programs/Academy programs for students

• Junior University/Complimentary Courses

• PAX: The Good Behaviour Game

• Increased Communication with parents/community

• Book Study: Mindset

• Effective Professional Growth Plans

• Professional Teams

• Student Interviews

• Student Government

MENTORING THE NET GENERATION

This session will offer insight into developing coaching strategies for new teachers by examining the unique characteristics of the current “Net” generation.  The “Net” generation offers schools a group of beginning teachers that will provide education many new approaches.  By offering leadership and development in a way that embraces generational change, schools will assist in attracting and retaining highly talented individuals.  By examining generational differences and discovering effective coaching techniques, session participants will receive a number of hands on strategies that will help them mentor and evaluate their beginning and student teachers.

In addition, we will discuss podcasting and how this unique audio format may be used to promote school leadership.  You can also check out my current Podcasts by clicking here!

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PLANNING FOR GROWTH

This presentation will explain an effective strategy to help make PGP for teachers and other school staff effective and meaningful documents.  This approach to PGPs allows staff to create goals that are tailored to their needs based on where they are in their career.  This approach will also promotes ongoing growth as staff revisit their plan each month in collaboration with their colleagues.  Staff conversations around their growth will be up and they will be more motivation for staff to strive towards achieving goals as designed by their growth plan.  This approach was created by Chinook's Edge School District in collaboration with the University of Lethbridge professors, Dr. Townsend and Dr. Adams, and was effectively implemented into practice by the presenter at his school.  This demonstrates that this strategy is transferable and feedback from staff has been very positive using this process. 

See this Blog post for more information.