In this SAANYS Spotlight Session, Ken Spero, SchoolSims President & Founder, facilitates our Leading School Culture Change simulation.

In this webinar, Kay Psencik, Senior Consultant for Learning Forward, facilitates our Equity-Centered Leadership simulation, which was made in partnership with Learning Forward.

In this webinar, our panel of experts in Educational Leadership and Teacher Education will discuss their research and experience on the critical importance of simulations in preparing and developing aspiring school leaders and teachers to accelerate their readiness to successfully take on their new roles.

In this webinar, Dr. Trent Grundmeyer, Associate Professor of Educational Leadership at Drake University, facilitates our new simulation, Bias in the Hiring Process. During this complimentary webinar, you will join peers across the country and be put into the role of Superintendent of Gunderson Community School District. You will meet with the school board and must recognize and influence potential hiring biases. The school board has requested a voice in selecting and hiring a new high school principal. You will deal with biases in the process as they arise.

In this webinar, Dave Versteeg, former superintendent, facilitates our new simulation, Parent-Teacher Conference. You will face a communication issue between a teacher and a parent regarding the student’s performance. “Parent-teacher conferences can end up being difficult conversations for the teacher if the teacher assumes the conversation is about the student’s performance while the parent wants it to be about the teacher’s performance. How will you handle this situation?”

In this webinar, Dr. David De Jong, Dean of the College of Education at Dakota State University, facilitates our Cultural Competency simulation as part of the SAANYS Spotlight Session.

In this webinar, Dave Versteeg, former superintendent, and Ken Spero, SchoolSims president, and founder, facilitate a collaborative session where educators from around the country assist in building the framework of a simulation together based on the most voted-on problem of practice, Implementation of a School-Wide Decision and Learning Loss.

In this webinar, our panel of experts in educational leadership, Sara Dexter, Ed.D., Jennifer Bailey, Ed.D., David De Jong, Ed.D., Mike Johanek, Ed.D., and Trent Grundmeyer, Ph.D., discuss their research on school leader preparation and development and the impact of experiential learning opportunities through simulations. The purpose of this webinar is to provide context for the potential impact of simulation practice as a targeted professional development method that may go beyond pre-service preparation and continue as a learning pathway for in-service school leaders by examining the most recent research on leadership development. 

In this webinar, Dr. David De Jong, Dean of the College of Education at Dakota State University, facilitates our Cultural Competency simulation. Now is the time to lean into cultural competency to strengthen the relationships between the school and the community. Districts cannot assume staff understands cultural competence. Leaders must take the initiative to provide adequate space to discuss cultural differences and reestablish norms built on cultural competency. Talking about change is over. Now is the time for words to become actions.

During the webinar, district leaders will highlight a few key themes that have been on many leaders’ minds this time of year, including utilizing simulations for equity-centered principal preparation. What does it take for principals to lead schools successfully, and how prepared are they? Principals face a difficult task in ensuring that every student has the opportunity to participate in a high-quality educational experience. In order to fulfill this challenge, school leadership must prioritize both equity and excellence and principals must be instructional leaders who prioritize equity.