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More than 20 professional development
sessions will be offered at Institute
In
addition to keynote sessions and networking opportunities,
school leaders at the 2008 Principals’ Partnership
Summer Leadership Institute will have the choice of more
than 20 professional development workshops with topics
such as leadership, school culture, gangs, school change,
bullying and much more. Sessions will be offered twice.
Among professional development
opportunities are—
The Assistant Principal as a Launching Pad for Future Principals,
John Daresh, professor, educational leadership, University
of Texas at El Paso. Daresh will present research on
how experience as an assistant principal prepares one
to become an effective principal. He also serves as the
Director of Principal Preparation at UTEP and has written
several books on professional development of school principals.
Most recently, his work includes Beginning the Principalship
and What It Means to be a Principal.
Leadership Skills for Student Achievement NOT Just for Reform, Marvin
R. Pittman, a frequent Summer Institute speaker. Reforming schools can not
be seen as an end in itself. Pittman will discuss raising achievement for all
students and closing achievement gaps and raising teacher, parent, and student
expectations. He has been a teacher, assistant principal, principal, and director
of instruction for the Wake County Public Schools in Raleigh, NC. He also was
executive director for middle and high school curriculum for the Durham (N
C) Public Schools.
The
Millennials: There’s a New Kid in Town, Karen Walker,
professor of education, Lebanon Valley College, PA. The
Millennials, those born between 1980 – 2000, require
a new approach for principals. Their perspectives, academic
needs and ways they process and utilize information are
vastly different from their predecessors, the GenXers.
Walker will discuss characteristics of this generation
and provide some ideas to meet their learning needs. She
taught in Los Angeles Unified School District and was a
principal in California and Ohio.
Leadership for Creating
the High Schools of Our Choice, Tim Westerberg, president, Tim Westerberg Consulting.
This session will challenge current thinking about the goals,
structure and norms of high schools with a look toward creating
high schools in which all students are pursuing courses of
study that prepare them for life in the 21st century. Examples
of effective high school reform initiatives will be used
to stimulate lively discussion among participants. Westerberg
was a high school principal for 26 years, 20 of which were
at Littleton High School in Colorado. He served on the NASSP/Carnegie
Foundation Commission on the Restructuring of the American
High School, which produced Breaking Ranks: Changing an American
Institution and played a significant role in the development
of Breaking Ranks II.
Every Shut Eye Ain’t Asleep:
Families as Equal Status Partners in the Educational Process,
Mary
Bacon, Images of a Culture. The speaker will present a strength
rather than a deficient model for working effectively with
families, especially those challenged by and challenging
to the educational system. A child of the projects in the
South, Bacon went on to be a teacher, school administrators,
and probation office in the juvenile court system.
Lead Me; I Dare You, Sherrel Bergmann, Ferris
State University. Participants will learn strategies for
dealing with staff members who are reluctant to embrace change.
A staff development simulation and strategies for developing
leadership with teachers and parents will be offered. Bergmann,
a former high school teacher, has worked with the National
Association of Secondary School Principals and National Middle
School Association as a frontline presenter on topics such
as school change, curriculum integration, dealing with stress
and change, and strategic planning, and counseling.
Teen Truth Live, Erahm Christopher, co-founder
of Horizon Entertainment. Christopher will discuss Teen Truth
Live, an interactive, multi-media presentation that incorporates
motivational speeches with a 22-minue film created by students.
The film, Teen Truth: Bully, focuses on social issues that
can lead to school violence while the speeches challenge
the audience members to think about how their reactions to
these issues impact the lives of those around them. He has
spoken to more than 50,000 students across California and
Canada about Teen Truth Live.
Tardiness, Safety and
Truancy,
Hector Molina. Good student attendance not only benefits
the student but
it also benefits your community. This session focuses on
the factors that are keeping kids from attending school to
the intervention methods that can turn around a child’s/parents
view on school attendance. Molina is a child welfare and
attendance administrator for the Woodland Joint Unified School
District, CA. He was a bilingual classroom teacher for 12
years in grades K-8 and has more than seven years of secondary
administrator experience. The
Power of One- Kindness Matters for School Safety, Stephen
Sroka, president, Health Education Consultants. This session
will integrate research and real-life stories to facilitate
understanding the whole child and students’ mental,
emotional, social, spiritual, and physical health needs.
The program is filled with “tips from the trenches.” Called “retarded” by
his third grade teacher, Sroka is an internationally recognized
speaker, trainer, author, teacher and educational consultant
on adolescent health behaviors including sex, drugs and
violence. He is an Adjunct Assistant Professor, School
of Medicine, Division of Adolescent Health, Case Western
Reserve University, and an Adjunct Associate Professor
of Health Education at Cleveland State University.
Community Mobilization Against Gangs, Sgt. Ron Stallworth,
a retired police officer and expert on gang culture.
This workshop will describe how Stallworth initiated
a multi-jurisdictional gang task force to combat the
emerging Crip-Blood crack cocaine network in Utah. Subsequently,
he was named Utah’s gang intelligence coordinator,
charged with gathering and disseminating all gang intelligence
and training throughout the state. Stallworth has written
four books on gangs and was invited to testify three
times before the U.S. Congress.
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