The Instructional Leadership Institute with

Principal Baruti Kafele 2025

July 15-16, 2025

9:00 AM- 4:30 PM Daily

You don’t want to miss this institute designed for principals , assistant principals, and aspiring administrators!

This institute will be based on Principal Kafele's newly released book! Exciting times! Register today!

What to expect during an institute?- reflection, networking and great discussion!

**Included with registration, each attendee will receive a copy of Principal Kafele's newest released book:

What Is My Value INSTRUCTIONALLY to the Teachers I Supervise?

**** Bonus: the first 50 to register will receive a copy of one of Principal Kafele's previous books.

Topic:

What Is My Value INSTRUCTIONALLY to the Teachers I Supervise?

Principal Kafele contends emphatically, “The primary purpose of the supervision of teachers is student achievement and their continued improvement of instruction!” Due to the complexities of school leadership, it is easy to be so inundated by the non-instructional aspects of the work that the instructional side of the leadership inclusive of instructional coaching suffers. When the instructional side suffers, it adversely impacts the entire school academically. To that end, this high-engagement, self-reflective, two-day institute comprised of Principal Kafele’s Instructional Leadership Framework will provide attendees with strategies for developing a skillset of instructional leadership proficiency while maintaining a focus on the instructional side of their leadership toward increasing the probability that student achievement and the continued improvement of instruction is the norm under their leadership. Attention will also be given to creating a school-wide culture of instructional leadership that is conducive to sustaining instructional leadership engagement and effectiveness over the course of an entire school year.

The Instructional Leadership Framework is comprised of the following ten strands:

1. Instructional Leadership Must Be at Your Core: Everything Else Is Secondary
(What is instructional leadership and what does it mean to my practice as a school leader?)

2. Instructional Leadership and Student Achievement Go "Hand in Glove"
(Do I understand that my main priority is student achievement and the continued improvement of instruction?)

3. Instructional Leadership Is Where the "Rubber Meets the Road"
(Would I consider the instructional aspect of my leadership to be my primary focus as a leader? What is the evidence?)

4. Instructional Leadership and Your Instructional Self-Assessment
(What does instructional leadership look like for me during the normal course of a day?)

5. Instructional Leadership and Your Expectations of Excellence
(Do I have a philosophy, beliefs, opinions and ideas about how children learn based upon my own research, reading and experiences?)

6. Instructional Leadership and the Pre- & Post Observation Conference
(What is the significance of the pre- and post-observation conference to my leadership instructionally, inclusive of the analysis of data?)

7. Instructional Leadership and Knowing Excellent Pedagogy
(What do I know about excellent pedagogy beyond who I was as a classroom teacher?)

8. Instructional Leadership and Maximizing Your Leadership Team
(What is the role of my administrative leadership team toward establishing a culture of instructional leadership?)

9. Instructional Leadership and Maximizing Your Instructional Coaches
(How am I utilizing my instructional coaches and what measures have I put in place for them to be optimally successful?)

10. Instructional Leadership and Your Teachers' Perceptions of Who You Are as Instructional Coach
(How do the teachers that I supervise perceive me as an Instructional leader?)

Please call 803-348-6517 or email: toolstomakerightdecisions@gmail.com for more information and other methods of payment (such as Paypal, Zelle, purchase orders).

General Admission - $499.00

**WE TAKE PURCHASE ORDERS.**

(If you are paying on Eventbrite, there will be an additional fee for administrative cost.)

For other methods of payment (purchase order/check), please complete a form @ https://tinyurl.com/slregistration2025. Feel free to contact us @ toolstomakerightdecisions@gmail.com.

Begininng November 30, the Instructional Leadership Institute has a courtesy block of rooms at the rate at $179.00 per night at the hosting site, Embassy Suites at Hilton Raleigh Crabtree located at 4700 Creedmoor Road, Raleigh, NC 27612.

Hot cooked to order breakfast (6 am - 9 am) and evening reception with light snack and beverage service (5:30 pm - 7:30 pm) included in the rate.

The hosting hotel provides shuttle service between 7 am and 11 pm to/from RDU airport and destinations within a 2-mile radius of the hotel.

For highlights from previous institutes, please visit https://www.theschoolleadershipinstitute.net/