SRN LEADS/Stanford University: School Redesign Network — 
LEADS calendar
October 8-10, 2008 |
Austin, TX |
The Austin Independent School District is redesigning its high schools, district-wide, while simultaneously redesigning its central office. This residency will focus on the innovative organizational practices Austin has put in place to support redesign across the district. |
January 15-16, 2009 |
Stanford, CA |
Annual LEADS Liaison Work Session We will come together in January to do major thinking and planning in four areas: |
March 16-18, 2009 |
Mapleton, CO |
Mapleton Public Schools has taken one comprehensive high school and divided it into seven autonomous small schools in different locations across the district. Mapleton has also changed from an elementary-middle school design to a K-8 design. This residency will focus on the decisions, processes, and results of those systemic changes. |
"LEADS focuses on a critical arena in school reform, and it is founded on operating principles that promote high quality practice and effective outcomes. First, all arrows point to instruction. The implicit, sometimes explicit theory guiding the work is that districts are there to support effective teaching, and every practice and policy needs to be assessed in that light. Second, it emphasizes the importance of evidence - decisions informed by careful analyses of information - which is so critical and all too rare at both district and school levels. Finally, LEADS stresses the importance of documenting knowledge that can be shared among participants and beyond. We spend too much time re-inventing the wheel in education. Learning about best practices is just as important at the district level as it is at the classroom level, and LEADS participants contribute to as well as benefit from that knowledge base."
— Deborah Stipek, Dean, Stanford University School of Education
© 2007 SRN LEADS
