SRN LEADS/Stanford University: School Redesign Network — Leadership, Equity & Accountability in Districts & Schools

LEADS calendar

 

Year One, Cohort II: 2010-11

Oct. 6, 2010		Network Conference Call: Welcome to LEADS!
Nov. 3-5, 2010	Stanford, CA	LEADS Fall Institute
Dec. 7, 2010		Network Conference Call: Supporting Initial Work as a Network
January 2011	at district sites	LEADS Liaison Site Visit
Jan. 31 - Feb. 2, 2011	Washington, DC	LEADS Residency
March 2011		Release of LEADS Research Brief
April 2011		LEADS Webinar
May 4, 2011		Network Conference Call: Supporting Continued Progress as a Network
Week of June 6, 2011	Stanford, CA	LEADS Summer Institute

 

"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