As they reached the halfway point of their year-long fellowship this month, SMU’s 2019-2020 cohort of District Leadership Fellows came together to discuss their personal and district progress.
District Leadership Fellows practiced stressful leadership situations and active listening techniques using the Mursion simulation environment in the Simmons School of Education & Human Development at SMU.
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Leaders in healthcare and education are doing critically important work, and changing contexts demand new approaches to serving communities.
The District Leadership Fellows met at SMU for their second session on October 23rd. Superintendents built upon the framework they learned at the Kick Off, updated their Impact Models and added Active Listening to their skill set.
The Institute for Leadership Impact has trained over 150 SMU students in creating global and public health impact since 2015.
As SMU students settled in for their first round of exams, a new cohort of the Institute for Leadership Impact’s flagship program kicked off at the Simmons School of Education and Human Development. With the construction of SMU’s new Ford Hall for Research & Innovation as a backdrop, thirteen District Leadership Fellows from all over the northeast Texas region reflected on the most effective ways to approach their unique leadership roles.
The 2018-2019 Impact Report from the Institute for Leadership Impact highlights leadership training in education and health including the District Leadership Fellows, Rural Superintendent Leadership Symposium, Virtual Reality surgical mentoring and research, and Creating Impact in Global & Public Health class.
“We have been dedicated to career and college access work at SMU since 1966. We actually have some of the oldest running college access programs in the country, so we’re really part of a legacy.” – Dr. David Deggs
“Across the nation, we have increasingly ambitious goals for student learning, which equates to increasingly ambitious goals for instruction.” – Dr. Annie Wilhelm
“The community and its schools are not separate” – Regina Nippert