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Sharing Leadership Responsibilities
Results in Achievement Gains

   Collective, not individual, leadership in schools has a greater impact on student achievement; when principals and teachers share leadership responsibilities, student achievement is higher; and schools having high student achievement also display a vision for student achievement and teacher growth. Those are just a few of the insights into school leadership presented in a new report, Learning from Leadership: Investigating the Links to Improved Student Learning.

    Presented by the Wallace Foundation, the 338-page report attempted to connect leadership and learning.

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Partnership Principal
Brent Curtice
Paonia Junior-Senior
High School
Paonia, CO

 


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Being principal gives
Curtice ‘a rush’

   Each morning when Brent Curtice goes to work as principal of Colorado’s Paonia Junior-Senior High School, he has “an adrenalin high.” That’s a good thing for his 280 students.


    “I get a rush every day I go to work,” says Curtice, who is in his 16th year as principal at Paonia JSHS. ”You just can’t buy the type of entertainment I find at school. I love the energy the kids bring. It’s stimulating and fun to be in any of our classrooms and see master teachers at work. You can get addicted to it.”


    Curtice, a former Met Life-NASSP Colorado Principal of the Year, is proud of the diversity and success of his program. With a student body that is 90 percent Anglo with 28 percent of the youngsters on the free and reduced lunch program, Paonia has developed a reputation as one of the best performing schools of its size in Colorado.

    “We have finished in the top 10 on ACT scores for small schools of our size in Colorado for many years and always do well on the state exams,” Curtice explains. “Eighty percent of our graduates go on to higher education, and the rest move into the job market or take additional vocational education.”

    Students in this small, Western Central Colorado, rural community come from families who work in coal mining, ranching, and business.
   

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California Schools magazine Spring 2007

If you ask me: Partnership can help high school principals

by F. James Hoffmann


Abraham Lincoln and
Railroad History!

     You and your students can now gain a glimpse of Abraham Lincoln and his contributions to railroad history through a new link on our Web site,

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provided by Union Pacific.

     Union Pacific is sponsoring an exhibit at the Library of Congress to honor Lincoln during the bicentennial of his birth, and the exhibit will travel to various locations later this year. The exhibit, “With Malice Toward None: The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibit,” celebrates the legacy of the former president who set the Transcontinental Railroad in motion, a major step in uniting the country.

El Paso (Texas) Independent Unified School District Honors Union Pacific and
The Principals’ Partnership

Carla Gasway, principal at Franklin High School; Clifton Taulbert, nationally recognized presenter; Howard Jennings, Partnership Team member; Glady Nienstaedt, Partnership Team member and James Anderson, principal of Andress High School.

 

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 Union Pacific was presented an award for its commitment to and support of the Long Beach, California Unified School District (LBUSD) 

From left to right, Howard Jennings, Partnership Team member; Darlynn Myers, Director-Union Pacific Foundation; Margaret Webster, Assistant Superintendent, LBUSD; and Jim Hoffmann, Executive Director of The Principals' Partnership.

     Margaret Webster, Assistant Superintendent of High Schools took the opportunity to present this recognition on behalf of her district and the district Superintendent, Dr. Christopher J. Steinhouser, to Darlynn Myers and Jim Hoffmann.

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National Governors Association Recognizes Union Pacific

Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman and Robert W. Turner, Union Pacific senior vice president for corporate relations and Union Pacific Foundation president

     Union Pacific and The Principals’ Partnership received the National Governors Association (NGA) Public-Private Partnership Award Feb. 22 in Washington, D.C., at the NGA annual meeting. Union Pacific was nominated by Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman for its innovative Principals' Partnership program, in which it works with Nebraska and 20 other states to provide high school principals with on-site assistance from education professionals; networking opportunities to share best practices; professional development activities and summits; and a wealth of online resources.

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Kansas City, Kansas Recognizes Union Pacific and The Principals Partnership

February 24, 2010 - Ramsey’s award was presented by KCKPS high school principals. Pictured are Wyandotte High School Principal Mary Stewart, Ramsey, J.C. Harmon High School principal Dr. Sylvia Parra, and Fairfax Campus Principal Rufus Black.

KCKPS high school principals thank Union Pacific executive


    The Principals’Partnership was created, by officials at Union Pacific in 2001, based on national research showing that highly skilled principals are a critical factor in the success of high school students. However, Union Pacific discovered that despite the tremendous influence principals have on students, teachers, parents and communities, there were few, if any, leadership programs specifically targeted to high school principals.

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The Principals’ Partnership was recognized on May 11, 2009 by the Portland Public Schools (PPS) and the High School Principals Association.

Carole Smith, Portland’s Superintendent spoke on behalf of all the PPS Partnership Principals about Union Pacific’s role an excellent corporate citizen.

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