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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. Join us for connection, conversation, and recharging at our Summer Leadership Retreat. 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.
Join your peers for our biggest professional learning event of the year
“The Summer Institute was like an idea factory — I’m leaving with so many new ways of cultivating belonging at my school through folio, along with a community of amazing people to support me along the way!”
“Folio Summer Institute is the place to build your network and find inspiration for the new year. This event is not about the platform, it is about the people. You will not be disappointed!”
Anneke Emerson, Viewpoint
“The Institute helped me re-center, re-energize, and refocus my thinking.”
George McDowell, Heritage Hall
“The Summer Institute is the perfect combination of fun, learning, and networking! I made friends I know I can count on as we move the work forward. This is one summer PD experience that will definitely continue to inform my practice.”
Lana Shea, St. Stephen’s and St. Agnes School
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the schedule?
Our curriculum is designed to help participants foster a culture of professional growth for their schools that lasts. Programming will run from Monday morning through Wednesday afternoon.
What can I expect from Summer Leadership Retreat 2023?
“SI is unlike any conference you will go to. It is not just sit and get, but rather you build a network of colleagues to help you through your own issues at your school. The relationships and feedback I received is extremely helpful, and I will take it back to my school to implement for this year.”
Our goals are inspired by our company values, which we live by every day: “I connected with folks, made new colleagues, and practiced effective collaboration skills. I have concrete tools and plans that I can take back and implement at my school. I actually had fun.”
Will there be training on the myFolio platform?
We will provide you with tools and frameworks for developing professional growth strategies and suggestions for implementing in the platform. There are also opportunities for individual meetings with the Folio team.
Do I have to stay at Lansdowne Resort?
We highly recommend staying at Lansdowne to maximize opportunities to connect and have fun with other collaborative members outside of session time. Enjoy on-site amenities like their stunning pools, fitness center, and spa. You receive a discounted rate through our special registration link.
Folio Values
People First
Everything we do is in the service of developing meaningful relationships. We embrace the opportunity to prioritize the needs of teachers and honor their courage to implement real change.
Reflection
We honor the transformation that happens in reflection and make space for that work.
Purposeful action
Our actions are always connected to a larger purpose. We begin with the outcome in mind, acting with discernment, and emphasizing data-driven iteration and experimentation.
Clarity
We strive to provide fully functional frameworks that are thoughtfully designed and transparent in their process.
Our venue
Join us for rejuvenation at Folio's favorite resort!
Enjoy on-site amenities like their stunning pool, fitness center and spa. What better way to rejuvenate from the year than with all of your Folio friends at Lansdowne? Folio members receive a special room rate through our room block.
Catalyzing Culture: Unlocking myFolio to deepen connection and belonging
At times like this, we need to gather.
Together
to make sense of what we’ve been through, turning reflection into conviction, and finding ways to rethink, together;
to share our stories and celebrate wins;
to laugh and rejuvenate;
to leverage myFolio’s potential for connection and belonging; to create a space where faculty and staff feel seen and known, centered and effective, connected and included, curious and energized, fulfilled, joyful, and satisfied;
to collaborate as leaders, clarifying our intentions and charting paths for our vision to manifest in daily interactions, meetings, conversations, and myFolio.
If you are in search of a collective
experience, then join us.
Folio site administrators, supervisors of faculty and staff, leaders of
adult learning, and department chairs, this event is for you.
Join Us
Grab your sun gear and your team and reserve a seat with kindred colleagues at our popular Folio Summer Institute.
We’re back in person this year and could not be happier to greet your smiling faces. We hope to create an environment of deep restoration and camaraderie on the grounds of a Folio favorite, Lansdowne Resort and Spa.
This year’s Folio Summer Institute—Catalyzing Culture: Unlocking myFolio to deepen connection and belonging—will help you and your team regroup around the challenges you’ve hired us to solve. Come together to collaborate and plan:
What actions can we take on myFolio and in our leadership to ensure we are a community with deep connection, belonging, and ever growing high quality teaching?
How can we use and lead with myFolio to help faculty and staff feel known, seen, heard, and connected?
What are the practices we use to connect, converse, and see our capability and the impact of our efforts on students?
What are the mindsets, skill sets and habits of leaders who center adult learning and connection despite the many demands?
What to Expect
To lighten the load and energize your leadership team, consider joining us as a group to collaboratively engage in:
Feedback Carousel
What do we imagine is possible as the Folio community? What concrete actions can we take to bring our vision alive with myFolio next year?
Collaborative Meetings
What do we imagine is possible as the Folio community? What concrete actions can we take to bring our vision alive with myFolio next year?
Folio Fuels
How have members cracked the code for using myFolio to help them see, know and hear faculty and staff?
Workshops
What practical and actionable steps can you take to use myFolio to create healthy conversations that leave faculty and staff feeling seen and heard?
Team Time
Where are we, what does success look like, and how can myFolio get us there? What is our action plan for the year?
Cohort Time
What challenges do we face and how can we help each other leverage myFolio to solve them?
Team or Individual Coaching
How can we help you know where you are, what you are seeking, how to get unstuck, or leverage your best options?
Product Support
How can I use myFolio to __________ ? Make an appointment with our team.
See what's happening at Summer Institute
Featured Speakers
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continue your learning July 14-15th at
Fierce Conversations
Consider staying on after to hone your Fierce Conversation skills!
This moment has re-taught us the power of relationships. After many months of stress, uncertainty and change, leaders face frayed emotions and a decline in conversation skills in their communities. Fierce Conversations® teach leaders how to have conversations that enrich relationships by igniting productive dialogue, interrogating reality, provoking learning, and resolving tough challenges. Participants will leave this training with the skills to fully engage in real conversations with peers, parents, colleagues, and students. Based on the book Fierce Conversations by Susan Scott, the workshop is adapted by Folio facilitators based on their experience as educators and school leaders. Designed as a facilitated conversation between professionals, the workshop offers opportunities for discussion, experimentation, coaching, and ‘real play’—not role play.
This moment has re-taught us the power of relationships. After many months of stress, uncertainty and change, leaders face frayed emotions and a decline in conversation skills in their communities. Fierce Conversations® teach leaders how to have conversations that enrich relationships by igniting productive dialogue, interrogating reality, provoking learning, and resolving tough challenges. Participants will leave this training with the skills to fully engage in real conversations with peers, parents, colleagues, and students. Based on the book Fierce Conversations by Susan Scott, the workshop is adapted by Folio facilitators based on their experience as educators and school leaders. Designed as a facilitated conversation between professionals, the workshop offers opportunities for discussion, experimentation, coaching, and ‘real play’—not role play.
Tickets
Registration for the 2022 Summer Institute includes:
- All conference materials
- Breakfast on Tuesday and Wednesday*
- Lunch on all three days
- Cocktail reception and dinner on Monday
New Member School
Individual
$1,299
Group of 3+
$1,149
Current Member School
Individual
$1,399
Group of 3+
$1,249