Cedarbrook is a "quintessentially Northwest hideaway," and is the perfect place to learn, recharge and relax.
Teachers learn all the time: from students, from trial and error, from each other. We know that as teachers strive to create powerful learning experiences for all the students in front of them, they are constantly asking questions. As leaders, we want to foster schools and districts that nurture questioning and experimenting — where teachers work together to problem solve, seek out and apply new thinking and expertise, and aim to continuously improve on behalf of students.
We also know that research finds that while our field has identified features of effective formal professional learning, these features are rarely implemented, and that even in the best of circumstances, the impact of these formal learning experiences rarely reaches students. We argue that both cultural reasons and strategic reasons may interfere with the implementation process and we offer our point of view and tools to address this situation.
1. How do leaders understand and diagnose the culture of teacher learning in their schools?
2. How do leaders create school cultures that unleash teacher learning in service of solving problems of student learning?
3. What technical moves can leaders make that promote the cultures of learning we want for teachers and students?
1. Examine how teachers learn at your schools now: What is the culture that fosters that learning? To what degree are teachers problem solving together to address problems of student learning?
2. Frame the problem of teacher learning in your system and engage in design thinking experiences to plan for a strategic response.
3. Learn from colleagues from across the country.
4. Engage with CEL’s latest thinking and tools on the leader’s role in teacher learning.
5. Head back to your system with effective strategies and tools for professional learning that will make an impact on teacher practice and student learning.
CEL faculty will engage district leaders, principals and teacher leaders around the problem of traditional teacher professional learning, how the field of education may address it, and leaders' roles in solving the problem.
Participants will leave the institute with CEL's best strategies and tools for designing, supporting and implementing effective teacher professional learning — all in the service of helping teachers solve issues of student learning together.
8:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m.: Institute Check-in (Note: On-site registration is not available)
8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.: Welcome and opening
• A message from our executive director, Max Silverman
• Why professional learning matters: a student and teacher perspective, Amy Van and Carrie Howell
9:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.: Setting the stage and framing the institute
10:00 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.: Break
10:15 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.: Getting clear on what teacher learning looks and sounds like now in your system
11:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.: CEL’s emerging point of view: Why are we raising these questions about teacher learning now? Our emerging thinking and how we got here.
11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.: Lunch (provided)
12:30 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.: Creating a problem-solving culture Part 1: What do we mean by organizational culture and how it links to teacher learning?
1:00 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.: Creating a problem-solving culture Part 2: What is your culture of teacher learning?
1:45 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.: Break
2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.: Creating a problem-solving culture Part 3: What is a problem-solving culture? What are the attributes?
3:00 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.: Creating a problem-solving culture Part 4: Problem solving around the problem-solving culture, what do you want to change?
3:45 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.: Close: Reflections and planning for tomorrow
Evening: Free
8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.: Welcome and opening
9:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.: Panel: Professional learning culture and strategy in action
10:00 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.: Break
10:15 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.: Outcome-driven professional learning Part 1: Defining outcome-driven professional learning and associated terms and the links to culture
11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.: Lunch (provided)
12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.: Outcome-driven professional learning Part 2: Identifying a need in your professional learning planning and exploring some tools and mini-videos
1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.: Action planning: Choosing a strategy and plan for improving an aspect of your professional learning, cultural or outcome-oriented or both.
2:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.: Close and next steps
We are excited to offer Cedarbrook Lodge — the institute venue — as a lodging option. Event participants have access to a limited supply of rooms for institute attendees at a special rate.
Instructions and a discount code for booking your room at the special rate will be included in your institute registration confirmation email. If you have registered, but cannot locate the instructions and discount code, please contact the Center for Educational Leadership for assistance via email at edlead@uw.edu or by phone at (866) 577-8066.
Cedarbrook Lodge offers free Wi-Fi, comfortable formal and informal meeting spaces, a location less than five minutes from Sea-Tac Airport and situated on 11 wooded acres, an on-site restaurant, and easy access to downtown Seattle via public light rail transportation. Overnight guests enjoy comfortable accommodations, a complimentary Northwest continental breakfast, a fitness center and many other appointments and services unmatched by other SeaTac hotels. Cedarbrook overnight guests can arrange a complimentary shuttle to and from Sea-Tac Airport, Seattle Link light rail and Tukwila Amtrak platform. For more information, visit www.cedarbrooklodge.com.
Yes, Cedarbrook Lodge will have free day-parking for institute attendees. Overnight guests at Cedarbrook Lodge will receive discounted overnight parking at $10/daily for self-parking and $15/daily for valet parking.
Yes, there are a number of hotels in the area, with most providing local courtesy transportation. Here are just a few:
DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel (0.6 miles to Cedarbrook) From $244*/$279 a night.
Hampton Inn & Suites (0.8 miles to Cedarbrook) From $244*/$279 a night.
Hilton Seattle Airport (1.4 miles to Cedarbrook) From $244*/$309 a night.
Seattle Airport Marriott (1.1 miles to Cedarbrook) From $244*/$288 a night.
* Government rate
$789 per person (Through March 31, 2018)
$849 per person (April 1, 2018 to May 15, 2018)
$899 per person (May 16, 2018 to June 26, 2018)
Registration ends June 26, 2018.
The registration cost includes access to all institute sessions, beverages, lunch and snacks, materials, and a certificate of completion. The registration cost does not include lodging, travel or meals other than those specified. Attendees must book lodging and travel separately.
Sorry, only credit card payments are accepted for this institute.
The institute is for anyone who leads professional learning systems, or supports teacher learning — principals, instructional coaches, teacher leaders and central office leaders — ideally attending the institute as a district or school team.
Yes, clock hours will be available for Washington educators. Information and forms will be available at the institute.
Once an institute reaches capacity, you may add yourself to a waitlist. If spaces open up more than one month prior to an institute, the event registration system Eventbrite notifies people via email in the order that they joined the waitlist, and gives each person 24 hours to register. If the person does not register in the 24-hour period, Eventbrite notifies the next person on the waitlist, and so forth. Within one month of an event, any open spaces are filled on a first-come, first-registered basis by notifying everyone on the waitlist via email. Please add @eventbrite.com, @uw.edu, @k-12leadership.org, and @hubspot.com to your safe sender's list. Note that the refund policy applies to people registering from the waitlist.
Yes. If you are unable to attend, you may transfer your registration to someone else. You may request a registration transfer by calling (866) 577-8066 or sending an email to edlead@uw.edu, ideally at least 14 days prior to the institute. Be sure to include: your name; the name of the program, workshop, or course; your phone number; and your email address. Please provide us with the following information for the person you are transferring your registration to: their name; their job title; their organization; their phone number; their email address; and whether they require special meals or ADA accommodations. Failure to include all necessary information may delay the transfer.
Refund requests for the Summer Leadership Institute must be received at least 31 calendar days before the program start date. A full refund will be made for requests received within this time period subject to a $50 service fee. No refund will be made for requests received 30 or fewer calendar days before the program start date.
You may request a refund by calling (866) 577-8066 or sending an email to edlead@uw.edu. Be sure to include: your name; the name of the program, workshop, or course; the reason for requesting a refund; your method of payment; your phone number; and your email address. Failure to include all necessary information may delay processing.
If you have any questions regarding the refund policy, please contact us at (866) 577-8066 or edlead@uw.edu.
You must handle lodging cancellations directly with your hotel per its policy.
Should you have questions or concerns or need assistance about lodging, please contact Cedarbrook Lodge at (206) 901‑9268.
Should you have questions or concerns or need assistance for any reason, please contact CEL at (866) 577‑8066, or send an email to edlead@uw.edu.
For the Summer Leadership Institute, we have lined up a dynamic panel of speakers who will share professional learning success stories from their school districts. Rebekah Kim, Paula Montgomery, and Jose Rivera are instructional leaders who inspire us, and we think each will inspire you with stories of how their districts solved challenging professional learning problems we can all relate to.
In this blog post, CEL's Joanna Michelson makes the case that when culture and strategy align, we see the successful implementation of professional learning throughout school districts. Teachers learn all the time: from students, from trial and error, and from each other. We know that as teachers strive to create powerful learning experiences for all the students in front of them, they are constantly questioning and experimenting with their teaching practices.
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