School Committee

Professional Development Opportunities 

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UPCOMING WORKSHOPS

• RI Healthy School's Annual Breakfast - October 16, 2025

• Check the following websites for the most up-to-date professional development opportunities

• https://www.ri-asc.org/

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Professional Development Videos Available Through RIASC

• https://www.ri-asc.org/training-videos/

 

RECORDED WORKSHOPS

• The following links will show you the most up-to-date list of prerecorded professional development opportunities specific to the state of RI.​

 

• https://www.ri-asc.org/training-videos/

• https://vimeo.com/hassenfeldinst

 

• In House Professional Development

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• Our attorney, Jon Anderson led a discussion on school board functions and a primer on education laws as well as state laws pertaining to government ethics. It covered duties and responsibilities of the school committee and the superintendent. It is included in the Dec 9th, 2020 school committee meeting under agenda item 9.2 (starts around 1 hour and 11 minutes into the video recording). The link to video recording is: https://youtu.be/doprDo4Ru7c.   

• Attorney Sean Clough led a professional development workshop on February 16th, 2022. The video link is here. https://youtu.be/7jXAQOAkcsE​​​​​

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• Advocacy Basics Workshop

  • Contract RIASC and they will send you a link to the recorded video. 

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• RIDE Presentation on School Improvement Teams

  • RIDE Presentation on Site-Based Management – School Improvement Teams

  • https://youtu.be/okSnymFwXRc

 

• Promoting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

  • This workshop will highlight the importance of diversity while providing public leaders with the tools to recognize and address inequities and biases that impact the development of policies and personnel decisions. Recorded on May 19th, 2021

  • https://vimeo.com/553415156

 

• Introduction to Municipal Finance, with the Rhode Island Public Expenditure Council.

  • Recorded on May 12th, 2021

  • https://vimeo.com/549415076

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• BoardDocs

  • Our school committee uses BoardDocs as a platform for all School Committee Content (Meetings, Policies, Minutes, Videos, etc) Please watch minutes 5 - 12 of this video to get a basic primer on how it works.  https://youtu.be/rrHele0laKw

  • https://www.boarddocs.com/manual/help.nsf/ViewHelp?open&v=LT%20Plus&role=Publisher (Text Manual of Procedure)

  • https://youtu.be/cAdocsiC4Yo (1 hour long video) 

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• Communication Strategies for Effective Leadership

  • Join Allison G. Butler, Ph.D., and municipal leaders from across Rhode Island for a workshop on effective communication during a crisis.This session highlights the importance of connecting with external groups, especially constituents, in order to maximize the potential of your communications. The session provides tips, tools, and takeaways, relevant to municipal communications.https://vimeo.com/471108212

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• The Empathy Toolkit: Stakeholder Mapping & Communicating Effectively During Crisis

  • Recorded July 16th, 2020 for the Rhode Island Association of School Committees and education leaders throughout Rhode Island. This workshop highlights the importance of developing empathy for key stakeholders as a foundation for effective communication during an evolving crisis. Participants engaged in mapping techniques to identify and empathize with key internal and external stakeholders. Participants also learned how to generate a communication plan to engage and inform others based on stakeholder analysis. The session concludes with a review of additional empathy-based tips, tools, and takeaways for effective communication during crisis, and an opportunity for participants to share their own best practices with other attendees. https://vimeo.com/440784434

 

• A recording of the annual Open Government Summit  2025

  • The presentation covers both the APRA and the OMA, but you could skip to the APRA portion, as it is most pertinent to admin employees. https://www.youtube.com/live/W0qbMZGrA1Q?feature=shared

 

• Council Communications

  • Recorded April 7th, 2021 for public leaders in Rhode Island https://vimeo.com/536028065/3dd5527c2c

 

•  Understanding the Education Funding Formula

  • Recorded on Wednesday, April 21, 2021 https://vimeo.com/540364647

 

• "Holding Successful Virtual Public Meetings- Panelist Discussion"

  • The technical backend of hosting virtual and hybrid meetings. A recording of the webinar is available here: https://zoom.us/rec/share/5DITYJGS9MBN8JvOXTo2Q37rFl4rzemJ0NeOT5U7THecisY-n6YXzr9BeOetFbzH.yfk8vQyBnKu1N5Zp 

 

• DBR's guide on Holding Public Meetings via Video Conference

  • https://bit.ly/PublicMeetingsGuide

 

Please email School Committee Clerk if you would like to register for an event or have any questions. 

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