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

Building on the success of district-hosted LEADS’ learning events in Miami and Milwaukee, the Austin Independent School District will be hosting our Fall LEADS Residency from Wednesday, October 8th to Friday, October 10th. The Residency will focus on Austin’s central office leadership of its district-wide high school redesign initiative and emerging middle school redesign initiative. The Residency will address the innovative organizational and instructional leadership practices Austin’s central office has put in place to support redesign across the district.

Residency overview and learning opportunities:

    • Through a series of conversations with key district and school leaders and visits to schools and the central office, participants will:

      • Gain insight into the strategies Austin’s central office has used to implement district-wide high school redesign and learn about their plans for doing the same at the middle school level;

      • Learn how Austin-based Dell and AISD are using innovative systems to better track and use data to make decisions;

      • Explore key instructional leadership strategies in action through visits to Austin’s high schools and framing conversations with central office leaders (e.g. Austin’s district-wide “Late Start” professional development strategy and its development of lab sites to build teachers’ instructional capacity for leading advisory);

      • Discuss with central office leaders from multiple departments organizational innovations that have re-defined the way the district approaches collaboration, school engagement, and decision-making processes.

    • Residency participants will also learn about the “Opportunity Index” being developed by Linda Darling-Hammond and the Stanford LEADS team to identify and promote high leverage, value-added organizational and instructional practices.

Residency Schedule

    • Wednesday 10/8: Residency begins at 5:45 p.m. with a presentation and working dinner.

    • Thursday 10/9: Residency continues from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Free evening to explore Austin’s famous dining and music scene.

    • Friday 10/10: Residency continues at 8 a.m. and concludes at 2 p.m.

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    • Who should participate?

  • Four to six central office leaders from your district.


Registration

  • Please e-mail Peter Ross at peter.ross@stanford.edu with the names and titles of participants from your district. Deadline: Monday, September 8, 2008.


Logistics

  • Hotel: We have booked a block of rooms at the Omni Austin Hotel Downtown. The rate is $179 per night. To receive this group rate, please book your rooms by Monday, September 8, 2008. To book, please call 1-800-THE-OMNI and request a room for the “Stanford University” group.

  • Flights: The Austin Bergstrom International Airport is 11 miles from downtown Austin. Shuttle and taxi service to the hotel run approximately $10 and $17, respectively.


  • Meals:     Wednesday’s working dinner and lunches will be provided for you. You will be on your own for breakfasts and Thursday evening dinner.

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""U.S. schools are now being asked to do something they have never before attempted — succeed at teaching all students to high standards. These new demands cannot be met without changing the core technology of schools — how they are organized to support more powerful teaching and more in-depth learning. Just as American businesses have had to restructure to increase their flexibility and productivity, so schools need fundamental redesign. And we need to develop the leaders who can accomplish this."

— Linda Darling-Hammond, SRN Founding Director & Faculty Sponsor

 

 

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