Learn, Network, and Grow On Your Time, From Anywhere!
Welcome to the 2023 Summer Leadership Series, the ultimate virtual summer professional development experience! This year’s program is packed with options, including interactive and facilitated sessions, that are designed to empower you with new skills and knowledge. With various ticket options so you can participate in the sessions that interest you the most. Join us for a summer of learning focused on ‘maintaining and retaining: fostering a professional growth environment where teachers thrive.’
2023 Theme
Maintaining and Retaining
Folio is your partner in creating an environment of professional growth and learning. Our framework and platform empower school leaders to help their teachers thrive. With many schools reconvening and setting their sights on intentionally building organizational culture, Folio presents an opportunity to reflect on the year and look to the future. Along with convening our exceptional Collaborative network, we will facilitate important and current conversations surrounding the future of maintaining and retaining your school’s team of educators.
Our Keynote Speaker
Dr. Julie Schmidt Hasson

Dr. Julie Hasson is a professor in Leadership and School Administration at Appalachian State University. A former teacher and principal, she now teaches graduate courses in school leadership and conducts qualitative research in schools. Julie’s research on long term teacher impact and classroom culture is the foundation of her books, professional development programs, and TEDx Talk. Her book, Safe, Seen, and Stretched in the Classroom: The Remarkable Ways Teachers Shape Students’ Lives, was published in 2022. Her latest book, Pause, Ponder, and Persist in the Classroom: How Teachers Turn Challenges into Opportunities for Impact, will be released in June 2023. Julie is also the founder of the Chalk and Chances project, a vehicle for celebrating and elevating the teaching profession.
The sessions
Campfire
This year we’re offering educators an opportunity to engage in meaningful storytelling and listening sessions inspired by unique and creative facilitation tools- the Folio Collaborative Campfire Sessions. For those who have experienced our “Birds of a Feather” programming in the past, this is a similar experience open to all registrants.
Folio Fuels
Folio Fuels is back and better than ever! Each Folio Fuel is now a 90 minute interactive workshop. During these sessions, participants will learn from a Folio member school about innovative practices that their school has used to optimize the professional growth process. Then, you will have the opportunity to work with a small group to apply what you have learned at your school.
Fierce Conversations
Fierce Conversations is an instructor-facilitated workshop that provides practical tools and techniques for handling all types of conversations, whether it is running team meetings, coaching, giving feedback, or confronting.
The 4 Objectives of Fierce Conversations: 1. Interrogate Reality 2. Provoke Learning 3. Tackle Tough Challenges 4. Enrich Relationships
Admin Bootcamp
This is for new myFolio Admins or those restarting their use of Folio and in need of a refresher. Participants receive exclusive access to video guides for the myFolio platform and attend a group coaching call with a cohort of other myFolio Admins and the Folio School Success team.
Ticket Options
Leadership series all-inclusive package:
- Keynote Speaker
- 3 Interactive Workshops: Stay Longer and Grow Stronger: Six Strategies to Increase Teacher Retention, Organizational Improvement & Growth and Connection with Burnout, Educator Mindsets for Transformational Impact in Schools,
- Campfire Sessions
- Folio Fuels
- Folio Feature refresher training OR admin bootcamp
- Closing session
Leadership series all-inclusive package + 25% off Fierce Conversations:
- Keynote Speaker
- 3 Interactive Workshops: Stay Longer and Grow Stronger: Six Strategies to Increase Teacher Retention, Organizational Improvement & Growth and Connection with Burnout, Educator Mindsets for Transformational Impact in Schools,
- Campfire Sessions
- Folio Fuels
- Folio Feature refresher training OR admin bootcamp
- Closing session
- Fierce Conversations training (July 26-27
Keynote, Workshops, Bootcamp
- Keynote Speaker
- 3 Interactive Workshops: Stay Longer and Grow Stronger: Six Strategies to Increase Teacher Retention, Organizational Improvement & Growth and Connection with Burnout, Educator Mindsets for Transformational Impact in Schools,
- Admin bootcamp
- Closing session
Keynote Package:
- Keynote Speaker
- One Workshop: Stay Longer and Grow Stronger: Six Strategies to Increase Teacher Retention
- Closing session
*Registrants will receive recordings of all sessions.
Offerings
June 26 | 10-12pm ET
Admin Bootcamp Option 1
with Anna Feiss
June 26 | 1-2:15pm
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Julie Schmidt Hasson
Kickoff to Summer Leadership Series: Keep Making Ripples
June 27 | 12-12:30 ET
New Year Set Up Guide: Steps for the myFolio Admin for the new School Year
Tech Office Hours with Sean Flaherty
June 28 | 11-12:00pm ET
Campfire #1
with Jeremy Goldstein
June 29 | 12-12:30 ET
Setting Up the Supervisor Structure that works for you (Groups, Supervisors, and Collaborators)
Tech Office Hours with Sean Flaherty
June 29
Folio Fuels
July 12 | 12-12:30 ET
Setting up Classroom Observations and customizing observation forms
Tech Office Hours with Sean Flaherty
July 13 | 11-12:30 ET
Folio Fuels: Aligning Themes to Teacher Standards for Self-Reflection and Goal-Setting
Led by Folio team and Folio member school: International School Nido de Aguilas
July 13 | 2-4pm ET
Admin Bootcamp Option 2
with Anna Feiss
July 18 | 1-2:15pm ET
Stay Longer and Grow Stronger: Six Strategies to Increase Teacher Retention
with Dr. Julie Schmidt Hasson
July 19 | 12-12:30 est
Accessing myFolio data
Tech Office Hours with Sean Flaherty
July 19 | 3-4pm ET
Campfire #2
with Jeremy Goldstein
July 25 | 11am - 12:15pm
Organizational Improvement & Growth and Connection with Burnout
with Nate Eklund
July 26-27
Summer Fierce Conversations Training
with Jeremy Goldstein
July 31 | 11am - 12:15pm
Educator Mindsets for Transformational Impact in Schools
with Sequoia Austin
July 31 | 1:30-3pm ET
Folio Fuels: Building Support for Professional Growth
with Sharon Eswine, Director of Curriculum and Instruction at Savannah Country Day School
August 2 | 8:30-9:30am ET
Campfire #3
with Jeremy Goldstein
August 4 | 11am - 12:15pm
Summer Leadership Series Closing Session
The Folio Method and You!
with Meredith Monk Ford
Tickets
Leadership series
$1,350
Group of 3+
$1,150
*Additional ticket options available. Registrants will receive recordings of all sessions.
Reach out to us at members@foliocollaborative.org with any questions about tickets and the events.