Ford NGL U Connectors Circle
This is the 5th Annual Ford NGL U Circle for Academy Coaches! The line-up for 2022 is one that you will not want to miss.
Who is this Circle for?
Executive Principals
Network with your peers and learn from their experiences.
BuildingPrincipals
Discuss topics that are impacting your work.
Assistant Principals
Learn about innovative practices that other communities are using.
Academy Principals
Get support for strategies you are trying to implement.
What's in it for you?
Participants in this Ford NGL U Circle will gain resources, insights, and support that are needed to elevate their work!
Relevant Resources & Material
Access resources, material and tools designed specifically for your role and that you can use with your teacher teams.
Intentional Support
Join a team of your peers dedicated to finding solutions to the challenges related to your role.
Leadership Development
Strengthen your leadership skills essential to your role. Learn how to lead others with an outward mindset and using a distributed leadership model, so your teacher teams go farther!
Professional Network
Convene with practitioners and friends from across the globe who share similar roles to you. Lean-in together, learn together, and grow together.
Support your learning
This Circle typically support your learning through topics like:
Encouragement
How to encourage teachers to look through the lens of the academy
Capacity
How to build the teacher team’s capacity to co-own their business partnerships
Engage
How to creatively engage students, teach content- and industry-relevant standards, in partnership with business and community partners
Onboarding & Roles
Strategies and approaches to onboard new teachers and new business partners
Pathways
How to educate district and school-level leaders about the pathway/academy model so they continue to support it
Leadership
A deeper understanding about distributed leadership
Value
How to manage your job’s multiple functions and ensure everyone in my building understands and values my role
Deep Learning
How to move partnerships to deeper relationships that get to deeper learning for students
Team
How to manage up with your administrative team and manage down with your academy team leads and sideways with your business and community partners
