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2005 Summer Institute
Program News:
The Assemblies
In addition to many other events, the 600-plus
Partnership principals at the 2005 Summer Institute
will have the chance
to attend seven stimulating Assemblies, ranging from working
with teachers to understanding No Child Left Behind. The
Assemblies will be held Wednesday, July 13, and repeated
once.
Partnership
principals eligible to attend the Summer Institute have
received registration
materials and are encouraged to complete those as soon
as convenient. Information on general session speakers
and the Institute site appear elsewhere on the Web site.
“We have an exceptional
collection of speakers for the Assemblies this year,” said
Dr. James Garvin, senior consultant, The Principals’ Partnership. “Some
of our speakers have appeared before and received outstanding
evaluations; others are new. All, however, are highly sought
national speakers, who will talk on subjects our principals
have indicated are the most important to them.”
Assemblies include:
“Breakthrough
High Schools Meet No Child Left Behind Standards.”
This panel
with three current high school principals—Charlesetta
Deason, Michael E. DeBakey High School for Health Professions,
Houston; Mike Kakuska, Roswell High School, New Mexico;
and Mel Riddile, J.E.B. Stuart High School, Virginia—will
discuss how “breakthrough” high schools meet
the challenges of No Child Left Behind while supporting
innovations that serve students. The principals are all
from the National Association of Secondary School Principals’ Breakthrough
High Schools project. Howard Johnston will moderate the
panel.
“Breaking Ranks
II: Strategies for Leading High School Reform.”
These panelists, three of whom are featured prominently in
Breaking Ranks II, will provide an overview of the recently
released study, Breaking Ranks II: Strategies for Leading
High School Reform, published by the National Association
of Secondary School Principals. They will introduce this
publication’s seven cornerstones and 31 recommendations
and share successful practices, real-life examples of high
schools at various stages of reform, step-by-step approaches
to change, obstacles to avoid and resources from which to
draw. Panelists include Pamela Fisher, Janice Ollarvia, Mary
Stewart, Walter Thompson, and Tim Westerberg. It will be
moderated by Rupert Asuncion.
“How Brain Research
Contributes to the Success of Learning Communities.”
Geoffrey and Renate
Caine will describe some general principles emerging out
of brain/mind research that explain how people learn and
clarify the conditions that help them think and learn together.
Geoffrey Caine is executive director, The Caine Learning
Institute, and has consulted for more than 20 years. Renate
is professor emeritus at California State University, San
Bernardino and was an award-winning teacher from the kindergarten
to university levels.
“What Makes an
Effective Leader?”
One
of The Partnership’s most popular speakers, Dudley
Flood, returns to identify certain traits that professionals
desire to see in their leader. Participants will engage in
an activity to help them to focus on their particular tendencies
and to examine the relationship between these tendencies
and effective leadership. Flood worked in the North Carolina
State Department of Public Instruction for 21 years and is
a former teacher and principal.
“Classroom Discipline in the No Child Left
Behind Era: Helping Your Staff Establish Respect and Responsibility
in
Their Classroom.”
Todd Johnson, who has advised educators
on discipline issues for more than 20 years throughout the
United States, Canada and Asia, will present a disciplinary
plan that has realistic consequences for inappropriate behaviors,
eliminates student put-downs, deals effectively with students
who do not follow the designated rules, while maintaining
the dignity of both the students and the staff.
“Confronting Mediocre
Teaching.”
Alexander (Andy) Platt, a popular author
and presenter and senior consultant for Research for Better
Teaching, returns to discuss how school systems have to
and can establish accountability structures within their
supervision and evaluation processes
while defining excellent instruction. He will discuss the
institutional forces, beliefs and unpromising practices which
if not confronted and changed, ensure in many cases that
only the already able students will perform to high standards.
“Why We Choose to Stay: The Power of Principals.”
Salome
Thomas-EL, an inner-city Philadelphia principal who earned
national acclaim for coaching his middle school students
to eight National Chess Championships, will ask principals
why they remain as school leaders. “It is not for the
accolades, the salary or for more legislation,” he
believes. He’ll review the power of principals’ influence
as leaders in our schools. He learned early in life growing
up in a tough neighborhood that his teachers and principals
cared. They motivated him to become an educator, and he is
now using those gifts as a principal to reach out to children
all over the country and to thank principals for understanding
the power of giving.
Past News Items:
Summer Institute Program News-3/05
Union Pacific Foundation
Recieves 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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