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LEADS Summer Session 2008
The LEADS Summer Session is right around the corner. Below is information to help districts with planning:
Team Composition: Plan on bringing teams of 8-12, representing various district perspectives associated with the district reform process. We’ll ask you for the team participant names in early May.
Start Time: 1:30 p.m. on Monday, June 23; group dinner Monday.
End Times: Typically 4:30 p.m., 12:30 p.m. on Friday, June 27.
"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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