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About The Administrator's Life
If You Are Thinking of Attending...
We recommend that you talk with your school and register for The Administrator's Life as early as possible so that we can determine whether there is enough interest to hold the seminar as scheduled. In these difficult economic times, many schools have cut back on enrichment programs like this seminar. This makes it difficult for us to plan. Early registration will help us and help to assure that the seminar will take place as scheduled.
If there are too few registrations to justify holding the seminar, we will cancel it. In the meantime, please do not hesitate to register, and keep in touch as we make our plans.
The Administrator's Life is designed for Division Heads of Upper, Middle and Lower Schools, Deans of Faculty, Deans of Students, Academic Deans, Department Heads, Admissions Officers, Counselors, Athletic Directors, Classroom Teachers and Coaches juggling Teaching and Administration, working with Students and with Adults.
The Seminar will be led by David Mallery.
The Seminar Staff will include
- The Rev. Paula Lawrence Wehmiller, teacher, administrator, consultant, sojourner, visiting scholar and presence in schools across the U.S. She is author of A Gathering of Gifts, published by Church Publishing Company.
- Dr. Robert Evans, psychologist, and the Director of The Human Relations Service in Wellesley, MA. A former high school and preschool teacher, he consults to schools nationwide. His area of special interest is the implementation of school change and resistance to it. His book on this topic, The Human Side of School Change, was published by Jossey-Bass in October 1996. His new book, Family Matters: How Schools Can Cope with the Crisis in Childrearing, was published by Jossey-Bass in 2004. Dr. Evans is a graduate of the Germantown Friends School and received his A.B. from Princeton University and his doctorate from Harvard University.
Seminar to be held: Wednesday, January 27, 2010, 12:00 noon through Friday, January 29, 2010, 12:00 noon at ACE Conference Center, 800 Ridge Pike, Lafayette Hill, PA 19444. (Tentative dates.)
The Seminar is about:
- Using your talents and energies in ways and settings that allow you to flourish as yourself, as part of the team, the school
- Being a "teacher" of young people and of adults in whatever stages of life
- Being, willy-nilly, a counselor
- Responding to people's pain, need, joy, confidence, suspicion, trust, mistrust, anger, health, pathology, generosity, self-absorption, tendency to delight you, hassle you, drive you crazy
- Making choices about your career: what emphasis, roles, places, tasks, opportunities
- Handling isolation, conscience, overwork, caring till it's too much, limits and knowing them, possibilities and pursuing them
- Unscrambling some of those words and images that can lock us in: "up the ladder". . . "Lateral move". . . "feeling stuck ". . . "go back to" . . . "go forward to" . . ."grow" . . . "challenge" . . . "management". . . "just a" . . . "still doing this". . .
- Figuring out your role(s) to all those people and groups in your professional and personal life
- Living a life that includes interesting, engaging work and the personal fulfillment you seek beyond career.
During the 2 1/2 day of the seminar, participants will have the chance to reflect, share, plan, explore, hear others' news and strategies and offer their own. There will be opportunity for specific planning based on participants special interests and hopes.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Only those should apply for this seminar who can arrange to arrive on time and stay the full span of the seminar. We build this seminar together and develop it together, start to finish. Thus there should be no question of someone not being there to start the process, or leaving early, as each person's active part in creating the seminar's content and tone is crucial. That is really the point and meaning of the seminar.
Participants should assume 1 hour to get by cab from Philadelphia airport to ACE Center, and the same from ACE Center to the airport at the end. They should assume a one hour cab drive from 30th Street Railroad Station in Philadelphia to ACE Center, and the same for the return. Thus try to plan plane arrivals in Philadelphia not later than 10:30 a.m., Wednesday, or plane departures not earlier than 2 p.m., Friday. International and West Coast people are encouraged to come in Tuesday evening, February 8th to the Conference Center. Additional cost: $120.00. We will send directions to show to the cab driver, cab information on pool arrangements, as well as directions for those driving their cars.
| Place: | ACE Conference Center, 800 Ridge Pike, Lafayette Hill, PA 19444 |
| Cost to the School: | $1150.00 for overnight participants. $1050.00 for day only participants. Early arrival, $150.00. |
