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Strengthening Your Department Chair Playbook: Spotlight on Faculty Development Strategies

Date: Wednesday, August 5, 2026

Time: 1:00 PM –2:00 PM ET

Lead Your Department with More Confidence, Clarity, and Support

Whether you're a newly appointed department chair or have been leading for years, the role comes with challenges few people prepare you for.

Managing faculty, navigating difficult conversations, balancing administrative responsibilities, supporting departmental culture, and still finding time for your own work can feel overwhelming.

The good news? You don't have to figure it out alone.

Join us for a free webinar overview of NCFDD's Department Chair Success Program (CSP), a 10-week leadership development experience designed specifically for current and aspiring department chairs.

In This Webinar, You'll Learn:

  • How the Department Chair Success Program helps chairs lead more effectively without burning out
  • The key leadership skills participants develop throughout the program
  • How peer learning, coaching, and accountability create lasting professional growth
  • What makes CSP different from traditional leadership training
  • Whether the program is the right fit for your career goals

Why Department Chairs Participate

Department chairs join CSP to:

✓ Build confidence in their leadership

✓ Navigate conflict and difficult conversations more effectively

✓ Support faculty while maintaining healthy boundaries

✓ Develop sustainable systems for managing competing demands

✓ Connect with a community of peers facing similar challenges

✓ Lead with greater clarity, purpose, and impact

Register for this LIVE event:

Facilitator:

Erin Marie Furtak, PhD, is Professor of STEM Education at the University of Colorado at Boulder. A former high school science teacher, Erin transitioned into a career studying how science teachers learn and improve their daily classroom practices through formative assessment. In a series of multiple studies, Dr. Furtak has been partnering with teachers, schools, and districts to learn how teachers can design, enact, and take instructional action on the basis of classroom assessments that they design. Her recent publications have examined the ways in which the design and enactment of classroom assessments can promote more equitable participation in science learning.