On Thursday, October 20, 2016, CAS hosted its fifteenth annual celebration of educational leadership at Saint Clements Castle in Portland. The event was designed to recognize and pay tribute to individual school leaders as well as to promote the profession of school administration. Honored this year were the 2016 Assistant Principals of the Year - David Caruso, East Hartford Middle School, and Stephen Merlino, Coventry High School - and the 2016 Principals of the Year - Joseph Norcross, Frisbie Elementary School; David Pearson, Ellington Middle School; and, Alan Strauss, The Gilbert School. Read about this flagship event and hear from these extraordinary administrators!

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Following five sold-out workshops this fall, the College Board’s Alan Bernstein will return to CAS on December 13th to present an additional session of “The SAT and PSAT/NMSQT: Understanding Score Results and the Online Portal.” The workshop will focus on tests types, scores scales and how assessments are linked to classroom instruction.

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CAS invites student leaders, along with their advisors, to attend its annual High School Student Leadership Conference featuring inspirational speakers Shane Feldman and James Orrigo. Shane is founder & chief executive optimist of Count Me In, the world’s largest youth-run movement. James founded Lad in a Battle to use his musical abilities and positive actions to inspire others to realize their potential and understand the importance of helping others. Shane and James will share their personal stories and experiences, demonstrating how their skills and leadership have made a difference in the world.

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The registration deadline for the first two sessions of the 2016-17 Principals’ Leadership Series (PLS) is less than a week away. These half-day sessions, on November 9th and December 14th, will focus on the instructional leadership function of evaluation and, specifically, how to provide effective written and verbal feedback for teacher growth. The structure of this year’s PLS has been altered to allow greater flexibility for busy practitioners!

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The Connecticut Student Activities Conference is pleased to announce Destined to Lead: A Leadership Conference for Young Women of Color in Middle School. This event, an offshoot of the very successful leadership conference for female high school students of color, will be held on December 15, 2016, at Goodwin College in East Hartford. Students will engage with uniquely talented presenters in exercises designed to uncover their abilities and probe possibilities for their future.

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Elementary and middle school teachers are invited to CAS on December 8th for a morning workshop with Anne Kubitsky, CEO and founder of the Look For The Good Project. Anne’s research-backed program is founded on the core belief that gratitude is the keystone to building positive relationships. Anne will reveal how gratitude practices can support character education initiatives and instructional pedagogy and positively impact student behavior and classroom climate.

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Are there members of your faculty who have the potential to be strong school leaders? If so, please pass along this flyer detailing three upcoming information sessions about the University of Connecticut Administrator Preparation Program (UCAPP). The Neag School of Education and CAS have collaborated to develop this nationally recognized program that combines rigorous course work with a robust internship experience to prepare candidates for successful school building and central office level leadership. The combined resources of the university and CAS, the personal attention that each student receives, and the quality of the classroom learning experience set the UCAPP program apart from all other preparation institutions in Connecticut. We hope that you will encourage your most promising teachers to consider the UCAPP program as the next step in their career ladder.

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