Upcoming Sessions
NOTE: Membership in Chicago Principals & Administrators Association (CPAA) is NOT required to sign up for IAA sessions.
THE SESSIONS ON THIS PAGE ARE FOR THE 2025-2026 SCHOOL YEAR.
Distributed Leadership: Building Capacity of Staff to Analyze & Build Buy-In Around Data (#4019)
Tuesday, July 8, 2025
8:00 AM - 4:00 PM
$195.00
Participants will self-assess their school's needs regarding data usage and integration across all systems and structures; critique key staff regarding the ownership of various aspects of data analysis; synthesize their strategic plans and staff leadership regarding data use; and analyze their staff in relationship to their skills and training to manipulate, analyze, and visualize data. Special attention will be given to the use of data in "building capacity for data-informed decision making to reduce chronic absenteeism".
Distributed Leadership Through an Equity Lens (#4153)
Thursday, July 10, 2025
8:00 AM - 4:00 PM
$195.00
Distributed Leadership is an approach to leadership that is shared, collective and extended. In practice, it identifies and taps into the skills and abilities of individuals within the school community, relies on collaboration, and fosters a culture of trust and respect. This academy focuses on identifying and articulating a deliberate set of leadership practices and policies that move beyond simply "divvying up" the tasks of school leadership to thoughtfully identifying beliefs and practices intended to result in school culture outcomes that are both ethical and equitable. Participants will be required to map out a distributed leadership agenda with measurable outcomes, designed to assure an equitable school culture of high expectations for every student.
Connecting Planning, Preparation and Professional Responsibilities in Teacher Evaluation (#1451)**
Tuesday, July 15, 2025
8:00 AM - 4:00 PM
$195.00
Participants will self-assess their school's needs regarding data usage and integration across all systems and structures; critique key staff regarding the ownership of various aspects of data analysis; synthesize their strategic plans and staff leadership regarding data use; and analyze their staff in relationship to their skills and training to manipulate, analyze, and visualize data. Special attention will be given to the use of data in "building capacity for data-informed decision making to reduce chronic absenteeism".
Principal/Teacher Evaluator Retraining: Student Growth (#3000)**
Friday, August 1, 2025
8:00 AM - 4:00 PM
$195.00
Participants will learn how to:
Use assessments and measurement models identified by the Joint Committee in determining student growth attributable to individual principals/teachers and understand how different types of assessments are used for measuring growth.
Use data from the evaluation rubric, other evidence collected, and best practices relative to evaluating student growth to link principal/teacher and school-level professional development plans to evaluation results.
In collaboration with principal/teachers, create supportive, targeted professional development plans that consider past results, contribute to professional growth, and assist teachers and principals in aligning professional development and goal-setting to school improvement goals.
Communicate evaluation outcomes and findings in constructive and supportive ways that enable teachers/principals to set goals and improve practice.
**Teacher Evaluator Retraining Courses — Completion of two academies is required to meet the retraining requirement -- one course that addresses Teacher Practice and, the other course addresses Student Growth. These two courses must be completed within the five-year renewal cycle and need not be completed within the same calendar year.