AMBASSADOR TRAINING PROGRAM
Overview
Ambassador training addresses attitudes and mindsets, helping each member of your staff step up as ambassadors (champions) for themselves, their classrooms, their campuses, district, and their profession as a whole.
A group of up to 50 educators, representing each campus and department in your district, will come together for a two-hour session (5 p.m. to 7 p.m.) four times during the school year to participate in an unconventional staff development that challenges them to think differently about their roles as educators. The forces that weaken public trust and confidence in public education will be discussed at length, as well as strategies for restoring public pride and confidence in the profession and reasons why it is critical to the “survival and thrival” of public education.
Each session begins with a 15-minute celebration of the strengths and achievements of your district and Texas public schools, includes a hot meal, and closes with an assignment for each participant that challenges them to champion the ambassador mindset on their campuses.
Why?
Optimism breeds success. It motivates, inspires, and unites. Children and teachers thrive in environments that are full of hope and encouragement. Unfortunately, there is too little optimism and too much doom and gloom, generating a perception of widespread failure, demoralizing the profession, and crippling efforts to recruit and retain quality educators.
Inspiring educators to become ambassadors will lead naturally to a greater sense of pride in the education profession. In doing so, more people will consider teaching an honorable and respected career and those who choose to teach will remain in the profession. There will also be dramatic increases in resources when parent and community confidence strengthens. And, a strong image of public schools promotes healthy economic development and reduces perception-based migration to private schools.