DMC offers a variety of conferences and institutes for superintendents, cabinet-level executives, and district leaders. These meetings allow participants to stay current on areas of expertise and learn strategies to help them implement new ideas and strengthen leadership skills.
DMC’s 9th Superintendents’ Strategy Summit occurred January 18-20, 2012, in New York City. The focus of this year’s event was the importance of developing human capital as a way to increase organizational effectiveness. DMC presented on a various topics related to human capital through the lens of motivation. The conference featured a variety of interactive exercises and guest speakers to provide examples of the power of teams, designing jobs strategically, and motivating through non-monetary rewards, all strategies to help unleash a district's greatest hidden asset: human capital.
Read more: Superintendents' Strategy Summit 2012: Unleashing Your Greatest Asset: Human Capital
Category: Professional Development Meetings
DMC’s Leadership Development Meeting: Principal Effectiveness: Aligning Evaluation, Accountability, and Support for a Changing Role occurred Nov. 11, 2011, in Boston. The focus of this year’s event was on key leadership and managerial tactics school districts can use to implement systemic approaches to improve principal effectiveness. The emphasis on on aligning diverse functions, systems, and data to improve overall management and coordination of principal effectiveness components, including evaluations.
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Category: Professional Development Meetings
DMC’s 8th Superintendents’ Strategy Summit occurred Jan. 19-21, 2011, in New York City. The focus of this year’s event was on the importance of having a district strategic planning process, and how to develop such a process. The event featured a variety of interactive exercises and guest speakers to provide examples of strategic planning in action, and to drive home the importance of developing a strong strategic plan.
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Read more: Superintendents' Strategy Summit 2011
Category: Professional Development Meetings
Working with partner districts, such as Boston Public Schools and Springfield Public Schools, DMC helps to deliver a leadership development program called the Management Institute. This program provides senior managers and leaders with formal training and coaching, while participants work on goal-oriented projects in order to support key district priorities.
The Institute is meant to strengthen management skills and change how operational services are delivered in the district. Through formal training and coaching support, the Institute builds the capacity of participants to be more effective and efficient managers.
Read DMC's management advisory brief on this topic: Professional Development to Solve Real Performance Challenges: Boston Public Schools Management Institute
The Institute is based on the design of Douglas K. Smith, organizational performance and learning expert and author of "Make Success Measurable!" He and Charles Baum (DMC Senior Director) have used this approach across more than 50 industries over three decades, codifying the lessons in several books as well through leadership programs that span a wide variety of sectors. Their programs have achieved positive impacts in affordable housing, journalism, social and economic development, and a wide variety of business sectors. The success rate measured by results and new skills learned (and used) typically exceeds 80% and the value of the impacts compared to costs of the programs easily exceed 25:1.
Read more: Management Institute: Overview
Category: Management Institute
