Pre-Conference - click to see: Summer Share | LEAD Project leaders

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Conference held July 31-August 2, 2003, Host District: Eugene School District 4J, Eugene, Oregon.

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Goals - This fourth annual Wallace Foundation Grantee Meeting on Education Leadership recognizes the work we have accomplished together in strenthening the performance of education leaders and creating the conditions for their success to improve the quality of learning for all children. We will discuss case studies of successful efforts, hear more about research, and examine the implications of education leadership in a climate of greater accountability. We will explore the knowledge, policies and practices that will lead us to solutions to common problems and, ultimately, enable this initiative to have greater impact for the children we serve, and equally important, a significant impact in districts and states beyond those represented at this conference.

Building on the original objectives of LEADERS Count, new goals for advancing our education leadership initiative are:

1. Develop leaders with the necessary skills and capacity to improve student learning.
2. Enhance working conditions and incentives to enable leaders to improve student learning.
3. Ensure that policies, programs, practices and budgets are coordinated in ways that connect leadership to meeting high expectations for every child.
4. Build and support networks, partnerships, and other strategies to disseminate and implement nationally, and sustain over time, the knowledge and successful programs and policies developed by our investments and actions.

Leadership is a shared responsibility, and collaboration is our best hope for achieveing our goal of providing every child an excellent education.

Participants - education leaders and directors, researchers and college/university professors, board members, superintendents, principals and assistant principals from 17 school districts and 31 states.

States:	Ed leaders/directors	College/University(s)	School District
California	X	X
Colorado	X
Connecticut	X	X	X
Delaware	X	X
Florida	X	X	X
Georgia	X	X	X
Hawaii	X	X
Illinois	X	X	X
Indiana	X	X	X
Iowa	X
Kentucky	X	X	X
Massachusetts	X	X	X
Michigan	X	X
Misouri	X		X
Mississippi	X
Montana	X	X
New Hampshire	X
New Jersey	X	X	X
New York	X	X	X
North Carolina	X	X
North Dakota			X
Ohio	X	X
Oklahoma			X
Oregon	X	X	X
Pennsylvania		X
Rhode Island	X		X
Texas		X
Vermont	X		X
Virginia	X	X	X
Washington	X	X	X
Washinton, DC	X
Wisconsin		X

Guiding Questions for Reflection -

1. How does leadership matter?
2. What do leaders need to believe, know and be able to do in order to be effective in improving student achievement, especially for students with the greatest needs?
3. What are the conditions necessary for effective leadership to significantly improve student achievement, especially for students with the greatest needs?
4. How can we build the partnerships to improve the alignment of schools, districts and the state to enhance the capacity of leaders and the conditions and systems within which they work to improve student achievement?
5. How can we create the urgency to bring about the necessary changes faster for the children that need it the most?
6. What is my leadership role in achieving the above?

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Thursday, July 31, 2003

Team Building/Outdoor Activities - [click to see pictures of team building events]

Ventures in Leadership Poster Gallery - [click to see pictures of posters]

Welcome - Kay Mehas, 4J Wallace LEAD Director; Honorable Jim Torrey, Mayor, City of Eugene; George Russell, Superintendent Eugene 4J School District; M Christine De Vita, President, The Wallace Foundation) - [click to see pictures of welcome]

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Friday, August 1, 2003 - [click to see pictures of session events]

Opening Session - Susan Castillo, Oregon State Superintendent of Public Instruction; Richard Laine, Director of Education Programs, The Wallace Foundation

Keynote Address: "Leadership Toward Student Achievement" - Pedro Noguera, Judith K. Dimon Professor of Communities and Schools, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Case Consultation Sessions - address six topic strands:

• Changing the conditions for leadership
• Recruitment and retention of leaders
• Administrator preparation and professional development
• Closing the achievement gap
• Superintendents and principals as instructional leaders
• Building partnerships and collaborations

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Saturday, August 2, 2003 - [click to see pictures of session events]

Keynote Address: "Building Partnerships: How to Take Risks" - Jennifer James, Urban Cultural Anthropologist and retired professor, University of Washington

Open Space - topical discussions

Policy Forum - "Beyond the Pipeline: Getting the Principals We Need Where They Are Needed Most"

Concurrent Partnership Work Sessions

• Trailblazing Challenge: State and District Collaboration
• Comprehensive Approaches to University and District Partnerships and Internships
• Connecting Leadership for Learning Communities - Building Networks that Sustain Instructional Support

Reflection/Team Debriefing Meetings

Closing Program/Acknowledgements

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