AA#3790 - Building Our Snap-Back: Teaching Resilience and Successful Planning for Education and Leadership (08059). This academy will focus on the importance of building resiliency skills in staff and students. There has never been a greater time to open discussions about resiliency and how it can help us cope in a variety of settings. This is a one-of-a-kind workshop where leaders will leave with strategies that will immediately help us move forward both in the academic and social emotional realms. The academy focuses on how administrators can drastically improve their culture and climate and put a purposeful plan together for impacting the social emotional development of our students through a carefully created environment focusing on a growth mindset, positivity, and gratitude. We will discuss activities and programs that can be implemented in both the school district and cooperative settings. As we all work to navigate the challenges of this year, there is a great need to view leadership from a post-pandemic lens. This includes how to begin to reimplement practices that we were forced to move away from and review the multitude of variables that we must plan proactively to make decisions for. This workshop will serve as a realistic playbook for high achievement, education of the whole child, and leadership for sustainment of the culture and climate sought for success. Information will be shared on conducting climate surveys and how to confront the data to initiate the changes that need to be seen. This includes planning specific opportunities to bring students with special needs together with the overall population of the school setting to share in resiliency building activities. Participants will leave with knowledge of the importance of building social-emotional “immunity”. This includes ideas for thinking out of the box and breaking the traditional way of doing things. School leaders will be armed with the tools they need to have an immediate impact on the environment by building a sense of community and opportunity for all. This workshop will also discuss bias and building cultural competence, so relationships based on trust can be built as you work to empower staff and students.