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Three nationally-recognized
speakers
highlight 2006 Summer Leadership Institute
Three
high quality general session speakers await the approximately
650 principals attending the
fifth annual
Principals’ Partnership Summer Leadership Institute
July 10-13 at the JW
Marriott Desert Ridge Resort & Spa.
Dr. Willard R. Daggett, president, International
Center for Leadership in Education, and an expert on moving
schools forward, will speak at the first general session
Tuesday morning. Darrell Scott, father of Rachel Scott who
was killed in the Columbine High School tragedy, will present
at the second general session Wednesday morning. The final
session on Thursday will feature Playwright Luis Valdez,
who has created El Teatro Campesino.
The Institute opens Monday evening with a reception
and dinner. More than 35 individual program events are scheduled
through the four days, including 10 assemblies, information
sessions, and school size-a-like sessions. Principals will
also participate in team meetings at the Institute.
Additionally information on the program will
appear on the Web site in the coming months. Principals should
look for registration materials, which they will receive
both electronically and through regular mail, around the
beginning of April.
In
the opening general session Daggett will speak on “Successful
High Schools—What Makes
Them Work.” He’ll outline the findings of research
teams that studied the 30 high schools identified by the
Council of Chief State School Officers and the International
Center for Leadership in the <i>Bringing Best Practices to
Scale</i> initiative and recommend ways to design a more
rigorous curriculum
for all students based on those findings.
Daggett, who is recognized for his skill in
assisting schools teach more relevant and rigorous skills
for all students, has assisted a number of states and school
systems with their school improvement initiatives. Before
founding his Center, Daggett has been a secondary school
teacher and administrator and a director with the New York
State Education Department.
Scott will discuss the challenges
that his daughter offered to people of all ages through
her diaries
in his presentation “Rachel’s Challenge.” Since
the April 1999 Columbine tragedy, Scott has been featured
in many of the major national television shows and in national
publications, twice met with the president, and written several
books, including the best-seller “Rachel’s Tears.”
Valdez
will talk on “21st Century Education:
Accounting for the Past and Future.” A former council
member of the National Endowment for the Arts and a founding
member of the California Arts Council, he created El Teatro
Campesino on the strike lines in the fields around Delano,
California, during the Great Grape Strike of 1965. He initially
created skits that dramatized the cause of farm workers and
urban
Chicanos. From there he has gained national and international
acclaim with Broadway productions, Hollywood movies, and
PBS presentations. He is a professor at California State
University, Monterey Bay.
Past News Items:
Idaho Principals Honor
Union Pacific - 1/06
Milwaukee
Public Schools Recognizes
Principals' Partnership - 7/05
Summer
Institute LIVE Coverage - 7/05
Summer Institute News - 4/05
The Principals'
Partnership Receives
NASSP's Distinguished Service Award -3/05
WASSP
names us a "Platinum
Partnership" - 3/05
Union
Pacific Foundation Receives UASSP Award - 2/05
Summer Institute News - 1/05
Senior Partner News- 9/04
Senior
Partner Program Announced - 7/04
2004
Principals' Partnership Summer Institute!-5/04
Principals' Partnership Lead Team Meets with Texas
Education Leaders-
4/04
Union
Pacific Recognized by Chicago Principals for Partnership
- 3/04
Partnership
Consultant Receives
Gruhn-Long-Melton Award- 2/04
Ursula
Harrison Named Wyoming High School Principal of the Year-
11/03
2003
Summer Institute A "Home Run!"
Summer
Leadership Institute in Portland, Oregon, July 14-17,
2003
Chicago
Principals Focus on Instruction - 10/02
Summer
Institute 2002 - 7/02
Educational
Leaders to Speak at First Summer Institute-
4/02
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