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LEADS upcoming events

The 2008 Executive Program for Educational Leaders (EPEL)
June 23–27, 2008, Stanford University

Who should attend?
District Leadership Teams (up to 12)

Goals and outcomes
Executive teams will strategize and collaborate on their district reform agendas and apply best practices from business and education to move those issues forward. Topics to be covered include: initial reporting of LEADS/IREPP district data analysis and preliminary cross-district findings; strategic planning, focused on succession management, data use for systems improvement, and private and public sector management and leadership strategies. Invited speakers and facilitators include, Linda Darling-Hammond, Susanna Loeb, David Bradford, Tom Payzant, and Hayagreeva “Huggy” Rao.
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Principals Leadership Academy
July 7-11, 2008, Washington, D.C.

Who should attend?
LEADS districts may apply for a cohort of up to five principals per district

Goals and outcomes
In partnership with the Knight Foundation, LEADS is providing an opportunity for districts to participate in the Five Freedoms Project’s Principals’ Leadership Academy, which will equip school leaders with the skills and support they need to improve student performance while strengthening the quality of civic discourse. School leaders will gain increased knowledge of/capacity for collaborative decision-making, systems thinking, and organizational change.

LEADS District-Hosted Residency
October 8-10, 2008, Austin Independent School District

Who should attend?
Central Office Administrators and Principal Teams (up to 4 people)

Goals and outcomes
The Austin Independent School District is redesigning its high schools, district-wide, while simultaneously redesigning its central office. This residency will focus on Austin’s strategies with data management, instructional leadership, decision-making processes, staffing, budgeting, and professional development practices that support its redesign.

 

"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

 

 

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