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weekend warriors is one of the best professional development opportunities
in the country
it provides my staff and me the opportunity to take some time away from
the building to reflect
on the work that we're doing each and every day for a lots of hours a week
weekend warriors has focused on things like managing and leading adults
curriculum and instruction
culture and behavior and so depending on what the professional development
topic is there's a training that goes on over that weekend it's a
Friday and Saturday that Friday is
really going and studying a high performing charter school and dissecting what has made this a Building Excellent School
On Saturday there's an in depth training
on whatever the topic is
led by a Building Excellent Schools staff member. The best investment is in the people that actually run the organization and the teachers and the leadership team.
Sends a very important signal to those staff members that you care about them
you're invested in their professional development
having access to that level of high quality professional development
is instrumental to ensuring that our newer leaders have the technical skill
knowledge necessary to do the work you need to do. Weekend warriors
sit down at the table and say, look
this is what we've been doing and this is how we need to change it. Everything that we've done at the Weekend Warrior has been brought back to the school and implemented that next day.
We are able to collaborate with such
intellectual individuals who really are all aligned in terms of the mission
of closing the achievement gap is a real opportunity in education.