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Data That Drives a Strong Start: Tools That Equip Leaders and Teachers for Success
Wednesday, October 1, 2025 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT
Presented by Valery Dragon, School Improvement Strategist and VP of Strategic Partnerships, UnboundEd
Moderated by Clay Willis, VP of Marketing and Communications, UnboundEd
Sponsored by UnboundEd
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As school leaders, it’s easy to get swept up in everything that comes with opening a building: building relationships, setting classroom procedures, managing schoolwide systems, beginning-of-year testing, and so much more. But we can’t forget that we’re part of a team. Your teachers have access to data that can be used to support their co-ownership of managing instructional change. This edWebinar provides leaders with simple, actionable tools to share with teachers, inviting them to own their practice and instructional power from the start.
Session objectives include:
- Understand the dimensions of grade-level, engaging, affirming, and meaningful—GLEAM®—instruction through observable metrics
- Identify priority instructional actions that have a significant impact on teaching and learning
- Use free GLEAM tools to set continuous improvement goals and anchor coaching relationships
This recorded edWebinar is of interest to K-12 school leaders and district leaders.
About the Presenter
Valery Dragon, VP of Strategic Partnerships at UnboundEd, has worked for over a decade in the Washington, D.C. area as an ELL specialist, language teacher, and instructional coach before leading a PK-8 school as a principal. Both New Leaders and RELAY trained, she then transitioned to a national organization as a managing director of instructional support to focus on leadership actions and practices. In this role, Valery crafted development for leaders through targeted improvement cycles anchored in operationalizing instructional improvement plans, auditing systems, and structures through the lens of internal coherence and equity, as well as modeling and developing coaching practices anchored in content-specific pedagogy. It is Valery’s belief that fidelity to our mission will empower educators to own their input in school-based outcomes and allow them to intentionally launch their influence as change agents in hopes that their affirmed identities and leveraged leadership position them to build a strong coalition for change.
About the Moderator
Clay Willis is a mission- and results-driven marketing and communications leader committed to making education work for every single learner. As UnboundEd’s Vice President of Growth Marketing, Clay advances the organization’s reach and impact by forging meaningful connections with visionary educators.
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UnboundEd empowers educators to meet the needs of every single student through grade-level, engaging, affirming, and meaningful—GLEAM®—instruction. We work side-by-side with teachers, coaches, principals, and district leaders to ensure the success of your instructional vision for exceptional education and improved outcomes. By cultivating the mindsets, knowledge, and skills at the heart of truly transformative teaching and learning, we can break the predictability of historic achievement patterns so all kids thrive.
