PAGE Leadership Program: Bringing Positive Change in Education

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Now accepting applications for the 2024-2025 PAGE program year. (Deadline extended to May 15th, 2024)

PAGE is the Science Museum of Minnesota’s leadership development program for K-12 education leaders. Dedicated to supporting diversity, promoting inclusion, increasing access, and achieving equity in educational systems, PAGE is designed to support leaders in bringing about meaningful and lasting institutional change toward greater equity and inclusion within schools and across districts. This transformative program focuses on leadership, beliefs, systems, relationships, and complexity.

During PAGE, you will engage with fellow leaders and the IDEAL facilitation team in critical questions and discussions about leading in complex systems and profound ways of bringing about new behaviors and actions in your context. You and your colleagues will develop skills in systems thinking; practice strategies for facilitating highly productive teamwork and collaboration; and examine the relationships between identity, systems of oppression, power, and status.

The IDEAL Center is rigorous in our use of mixed-method evaluation, including reliable, validated quantitative instruments to assess and increase the impact of our Professional Development. The pre/post effect sizes for the KPA Scale Survey show statistically significant effect sizes on critical competencies for access and equity.

Foundations Program: the IDEAL Center will provide approximately 70 hours of professional development across 11 days that are designed specifically for K-12 leadership teams. This meets the requirements for Minnesota professional development clock hours and/or Minnesota Board of School Administrators clock hours.

All of the programming will be in-person at the Science Museum of Minnesota in St. Paul.

Five-day Institute:

    • July 8-12, 2024 8 a.m. to 4 p.m

Two-day workshops:

    • November 7-8, 2024 8 a.m. to 4 p.m

    • February 6-7, 2025 8 a.m. to 4 p.m

    • April 17-18, 2025 8 a.m. to 4 p.m

Audience: District or school-based leadership teams are eligible to participate in PAGE. Individual team members should 1) have a passion for addressing critical issues of access and equity in education; 2) provide professional development, training, coaching, mentoring and/or leadership to K-12 teachers; and 3) have a district- or school-wide perspective. We encourage teams that are culturally, racially, and economically diverse. For the 11-day Foundations Program space is limited to 24 participants. District teams are limited to no more than 6 individuals and school teams are limited to no more than 4 individuals. At least one person should be in a formal leadership position in your school (e.g. principal, vice principal) or district (e.g. assistant superintendent, director, and/or consortium of principals).

For more information PAGE Leadership program website: https://new.smm.org/ideal-center/page