Wisconsin Charter School Summit 2025: Full Schedule

12:20pm CDT

Lunch w/ WRCCS Network - Design

Monday June 16, 2025 12:20pm - 1:20pm CDT

General/All

12:20pm CDT

Lunch w/ WRCCS Network - Virtual

Monday June 16, 2025 12:20pm - 1:20pm CDT

General/All

1:30pm CDT

Challenging the Norm: Transforming your Charter through Beliefs and Practice

Monday June 16, 2025 1:30pm - 2:30pm CDT

In this interactive session, participants will explore how deeply held beliefs about student learning shape decisions around school leadership, curriculum design, and instructional practices. Together, we’ll identify the beliefs we embrace - and those we reject - as we redefine what it means to be a “high-quality” charter school.
Whether you're an authorizer, board member, school leader, or classroom teacher, this session invites you into a broader conversation that will shift how we view and implement curriculum across our schools.

Speakers

Tim Scottberg

Associate Director, WRCCS

Tim Scottberg is the Associate Director for the Wisconsin Resource Center for Charter Schools, a statewide program at CESA 9. With a deep passion for education, Tim has served as the principal of Fond du Lac STEM Academy and as an associate principal at Fond du Lac High School. He... Read More →

Monday June 16, 2025 1:30pm - 2:30pm CDT

General/All

2:40pm CDT

A Data Dive that Matters! - Ensuring your Charter is Meeting Community Needs

Monday June 16, 2025 2:40pm - 4:30pm CDT

In this session, we’ll not only learn about what a true Community Needs Analysis looks like and why it’s necessary to become a sub-grantee under the current CSP Grant, we’ll also show you how doing a quality analysis every five years can help your charter continue to grow and evolve with the community it serves!

Monday June 16, 2025 2:40pm - 4:30pm CDT

General/All

2:40pm CDT

District Charter Schools - All Things Finance - Bring Your Budget, Bring Your People!

Monday June 16, 2025 2:40pm - 4:30pm CDT

Ask just about any charter school leader, authorizer, or governance board president what their most difficult topic is and they’ll most likely agree: the budget. But it’s not just the budget, it’s the questions everyone seems to have around the budget. In this session, we’ll provide a solid resource that will help get the conversation moving and help give clarity around the murkiest of charter school topics!

Monday June 16, 2025 2:40pm - 4:30pm CDT

General/All

9:40am CDT

Power Sharing in Charter Schools

Tuesday June 17, 2025 9:40am - 10:30am CDT

This session has been a journey in the making! We have helped schools with understanding roles and responsibilities. We have helped schools explore their equitable practices. We have talked about community engagement and input. Now, with the incredible research of our partner consultant and former charter school founder, Dr. Angela Dye (SBC Consulting), we may have finally peeled the onion back to see that effective power-sharing is at the heart of a healthy school. Learn about the components of the design she lovingly researched and then transformed into hands-on reflection and planning tools for Wisconsin’s charter schools.

Speakers

Angela Dye

Tuesday June 17, 2025 9:40am - 10:30am CDT

General/All

9:40am CDT

Strategic and Appropriate Lottery and Enrollment

Tuesday June 17, 2025 9:40am - 10:30am CDT

All charters are, by law, required to hold a lottery for enrollment if there are more students than seats, but how do you ensure that your lottery process is appropriate and equitable to all? Join this session with Sarah Hackett (WRCCS) to learn how to apply key requirements in the process and effective strategies to allow for equity for all.

Speakers

Sarah Hackett

Director, WRCCS

Sarah Hackett is the Director of the Wisconsin Resource Center for Charter Schools at CESA 9. She earned a PhD from the University of Wisconsin – Madison in Curriculum and Instruction. She is a graduate of the rural public school system in Wautoma, Wisconsin, and the small but mighty... Read More →

Tuesday June 17, 2025 9:40am - 10:30am CDT

General/All

10:40am CDT

Charter School Design Pathway

Tuesday June 17, 2025 10:40am - 11:30am CDT

Thinking about your design components as a charter school is essential, whether you’re starting a new charter school, or considering a refresh or expansion of an existing charter school. Join WRCCS consultant, Chamomile Nusz (Circle Education), to explore WRCCS tools around strategic practices, mission alignment, community needs analysis, and intentionality around every micro-decision that impacts your school. Walk out with a clearer sense of your school and where to head next.

Speakers

Chamomile Nusz

Charter School Consultant, Circle Education

Chamomile Nusz is a co-owner of Circle Education LLC, a consulting service working to support innovative education. She works with the Wisconsin Resource Center for Charter Schools (WRCCS) supporting the development of high-performing charter schools throughout the state of Wisconsin... Read More →

Tuesday June 17, 2025 10:40am - 11:30am CDT

General/All

10:40am CDT

Your School Playbook

Tuesday June 17, 2025 10:40am - 11:30am CDT

This session is designed for leaders and school designers who are looking to build schoolwide structures and clarity around their innovative model. Have you ever struggled onboarding a new teacher into your school model or explaining how your school purpose is implemented into your school design? Come learn with WRCCS consultant, Nick Pretasky (Humanistic Leadership LLC) about how you can use a design profile to build commitment, clarity, and transparency around your unique school model.

Speakers

Nick Pretasky

Director of Listening and Learning, Humanistic Leadership,

Nick's life work is to ensure every person has the opportunity to reach his/her full potential. Nick is the founder and lead listener at Humanistic Leadership LLC where he supports leaders, teachers, and learners in all facets of education. He brings experience working in traditional... Read More →

Tuesday June 17, 2025 10:40am - 11:30am CDT

General/All

11:40am CDT

Lunch Breakout - Design

Tuesday June 17, 2025 11:40am - 12:40pm CDT

General/All

11:40am CDT

Lunch Breakout - Virtual

Tuesday June 17, 2025 11:40am - 12:40pm CDT

General/All

12:50pm CDT

Humanistic Leadership No Matter Your Title

Tuesday June 17, 2025 12:50pm - 1:40pm CDT

Leadership is not based on title, it is based on the trust you have earned from those you lead. In order to fulfill your unique purpose as a leader, we must first get our own mind right and build the actionable strategies needed to show up so others can reach their full human potential. This presentation is a guided conversation about the core principles of Humanistic Leadership: 1. Self-reflection and INNER WORK, 2. Relentless pursuit to build TRUST, 3. LISTEN FIRST since leadership is service to others, 4. Accept Responsibility and believe in DAILY GROWTH, and 5. Have a STRATEGY, system or plan that will be shared and discussed. Come learn through the experiences of a wilderness guide, school leader, school improvement coach, and WRCCS consultant, Nick Pretasky (Humanistic Leadership).

Speakers

Nick Pretasky

Director of Listening and Learning, Humanistic Leadership,

Tuesday June 17, 2025 12:50pm - 1:40pm CDT

General/All

12:50pm CDT

Promising Practices in Charter School Instruction and Curriculum

Tuesday June 17, 2025 12:50pm - 1:40pm CDT

Charter schools are able to dedicate time to the design and cultivation of innovative practices in education. WRCCS has been capturing some of these great promising practices. Join Tim Scottberg (WRCCS) to discuss some case studies and collected practices, the intentional decisions necessary for making change, and careful implementation strategies to make it happen in your community.

Speakers

Tim Scottberg

Associate Director, WRCCS

Tuesday June 17, 2025 12:50pm - 1:40pm CDT

General/All

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