A Facilitated Simulation Event: Stakeholder Management

This simulation involves a school leader at a struggling high school, seeking to build relationships and improve academic achievement while working with multiple stakeholder groups. Engaging with teachers and administrators, you’ll have the opportunity to confront behaviors that get in the way of academic achievement.

Key characters include two administrators held over from previous principal, alumna/actively involved parent, experienced teacher struggling to engage students, young and enthusiastic teacher

Trade-offs to consider:

• When met with recalcitrant AP’s, continue insisting on best practices, while risking ever gaining their buy-in
• Upon discovering a practice among teachers that does not help students, insist on a policy change, while risking ever gaining their buy-in

This simulation can help improve decision-making skills and judgment by allowing you to experience difficult decisions with imperfect options, which lead to consequences that you must manage during this real-world scenario. This exact scenario may not happen at your school; however, it will provide an opportunity to practice and to reflect on the factors that influence your decision-making in a safe space for when similar situations do occur.

SchoolSims participants are afforded opportunities to work through authentic school-based issues and practice decision-making to improve learning and retention. By expanding their experience portfolio, aspiring and sitting school leaders and teachers build resilience and extend capacity to prepare them for real-life challenges.

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SchoolSims provides a powerful and affordable way to deliver highly effective training for school leaders and teachers. Current and aspiring leaders and teachers are offered a chance to experience real-life scenarios that depict true events but in a simulated setting. Since there aren’t always right or wrong answers when it comes to human behavior, experimentation is encouraged within the simulation as there is no way to fail. Participants practice critical thinking and are encouraged to discuss the reasons behind their choices which allows for peer-to-peer learning.