JCPS Leadership 2026

Participants will explore effective coaching techniques that guide teachers toward instructional excellence, including goal-setting, reflective practice, and actionable feedback. This session also provides administrators with structured frameworks for conducting meaningful, solution focused conversations with employees when addressing areas of deficiency including performance and conduct concerns. Emphasis is placed on balancing support with accountability ensuring that conversations are both honest and constructive, and that they lead to measurable growth.

Google tools many school leaders already use have gotten significantly better. This session highlights some of the most useful recent updates across Sheets, Slides, Forms, and Meet, with a focus on features that can save time, improve presentations, support accessibility, and make everyday work easier. Participants will leave with practical ideas they can use right away.

Google tools many school leaders already use have gotten significantly better. This session highlights some of the most useful recent updates across Sheets, Slides, Forms, and Meet, with a focus on features that can save time, improve presentations, support accessibility, and make everyday work easier. Participants will leave with practical ideas they can use right away.

If AI can generate definitions, summaries, explanations, and first-draft responses in seconds, what should students still be expected to do? This session helps school and district leaders rethink rigor by examining how AI is changing the instructional value of lower-level Bloom’s tasks. Through clear examples, participants will see how AI can be used to support background knowledge and routine processing while teachers redesign learning so students spend more time analyzing ideas, defending decisions, and creating original products. The session connects directly to Future Focused Academics by helping leaders identify shifts in teaching and learning that better reflect the demands of an AI-shaped world.