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Leadership Institutes for Cohort 4 SLC GranteesThese materials are from the SLC Leadership Institutes for Cohort 4 held in San Francisco, CA on Jan. 24-26 and 26-28, and in Atlanta, GA on Feb. 7-9 and 9-11, 2005. Some of the information presented at the Institutes applies only to Cohort 4 grants awarded June-September, 2004. If you have questions about the guidelines for your grant, please contact your program officer at OVAE. Speakers and sessions varied at the four institutes. These institutes were organized by the Serving Smaller Learning Communities Partnership and the Office of Vocational and Adult Education. No official endorsement by the U.S. Department of Education of any view, opinion, product, commodity, service or enterprise mentioned on this web site is intended or should be inferred. Please consult the agendas below for details:
Panel Discussion: Supporting and Aligning Transformation at the District LevelWilliam P. Moore, Ph.D., Senior Research Consultant, IRRE, Houston, TX &Steve Amstutz, Principal, Lee High School, Houston, TX
Gwendolyn Lee, Associate Superintendent, Thornton Township High School District 205, South Holland, IL Janice Ollarvia, Distinguished Principal for Secondary School Reform, NASSP Bob Sommers, CEO/Superintendent, Butler Technology and Career Development Schools, Fairfield Township, OH General Session: Setting Priorities for your SLC Action PlanAudrey Theis, SLC Evaluation Consultant, Key Links, Portland, ORForum 1: Program Development - Leading with High ExpectationsThis session focused on supporting academic achievement through rigorous course content and increased student engagement. Presenters discussed how to develop interdisciplinary curricula that meet high standards and make rigorous course work accessible to students with varied histories of academic achievement.Steve Amstutz, Principal, Lee High School, Houston, TX
Gregg Betheil, Senior Vice President, National Academy Foundation, New York, NY Cheryl Carnejo, SLC Project Director, Long Beach USD, Long Beach, CA Diana Oxley, Senior Program Advisor, NWREL, Portland, OR Forum 2: Adolescent LiteracyThis session focused on all aspects of adolescent literacy including: literacy across the curriculum, interventions for struggling readers and writers, and ways to motivate high school students to read.Doug Fisher, Associate Professor, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, Carlton Jordan, The Education Trust, Washington, DC Forum 3: Changing Instructional Practice Using Professional Learning CommunitiesThis session focused on strategies to develop and promote professional learning communities as a means to improve instruction and student achievement. Jerian Abel, Ph.D., Unit Director, NWREL, Portland, OR
Becky Burns, Senior Research and Development Associate, AEL, Inc., Charleston, WV
William Moore, Ph.D., Senior Research Consultant, Institute for Research and Reform in Education (IRRE), Olathe, KS
Forum 4: Customizing Instruction and Supports to Meet Student NeedsThis session focused on ways to engage all students, including special populations of ELL, special education, and TAG by structuring instruction and supports based on students' individual strengths and needs.Kathy Benton & Melissa Simashkevich, Intervention Specialists, Westerville North High School, Westerville, OH
Rain Bongolan, Professional Development Coordinator, New Teacher Center at the University of California at Santa Cruz, CA
Laura Gschwend, Professional Development Coordinator, New Teacher Center, University of California at Santa Cruz, CA
Bob Greenleaf, Professional Development Specialist, Education Alliance at Brown University, Providence, RI Joan Landzberg, Consultant, JLandzberg Educational and Management Services, Yorktown Heights, NY Sharon Lloyd-Clark, Assistant Director, Secondary School Redesign, Education Alliance at Brown University, RI Mike Neubig, Smaller Learning Community Grant Coordinator, Westerville North High School, Westerville, OH Jean-Fryer Schedler, Educational Consultant, Severna Park, MD Juliana Taymans, Professor of Special Education, George Washington University, Washington, DC José Velázquez, Program Advisor, NWREL, Portland, OR Forum 5: Accountability: Using Data to Make Decisions and Communicate ResultsThis session focused on how to gather high quality data and make it available for decision making at classroom, SLC, school, and district levels. Gwendolyn Lee, Associate Superintendent of Schools, Thornton Township High School District 205, South Holland, IL Jeff Lucas, Program Manager, Career & Technology Education, Student & Assessment Services Branch, Maryland State Department of Education Bob Sheets, Director of Research and Development, Business and Industry Services, Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, IL Bob Sommers, CEO/Superintendent, Butler Technology and Career Development Schools, Fairfield Township, OH
Audrey Theis, SLC Evaluation Consultant, Key Links, Portland, OR
Warren Williams, Principal — Adult Education, Cal-Pass Statewide K-12 Coordinator, Grossmont Union High School District, El Cajon, CA Team Tools from the Institute Binder
Evaluation Workshop: Introduction to SLC Evaluation and Performance ReportingPresenters introduced the essential elements of an SLC evaluation (planning, implementation, data analysis, using results) and provided an overview of the reported requirements for Cohort 4. SLC Evaluation in Practice: Implementing a Meaningful EvaluationThis session emphasized early alignment between goal-setting and evaluation planning and provided methods for developing realistic, workable, and meaningful evaluation plans. Jonathan Wang, Third-Party Evaluator, Hawaii State Department of Education
Alan Brickman, Third-Party Evaluator, Salem Public Schools, Salem, MA Spotlight Sessions: Issues in SLC Evaluation Working With Your Evaluator This session explored ways in which the school and district-based project staff can interact with the third party evaluator over the course of the school year. Heather Fleck and June Sekera, DTI-Haverstick Selecting an SLC Evaluator
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