SRN LEADS/Stanford University: School Redesign Network — 
LEADS calendar
Year One, Cohort II: 2010-11
June 22-25 |
Stanford, CA |
Summer Session (read more) |
Year Three: 2009-10
October 21-23 |
Knoxville, TN |
The residency will explore Knox’s work with value-added, student growth models. In particular, its work with the Tennessee Value-Added Assessment System (TVASS) established in 1992 to track student academic growth to determine the effectiveness of school systems, schools, and teachers. Read more. |
January 2010 |
Stanford, CA |
Annual LEADS Liaison Work Session |
June 2010 |
Stanford, CA |
Summer Session |
Year Two: 2008-09
October 8-10, 2008 |
Austin, TX |
The Austin Independent School District is redesigning its high schools, district-wide, while simultaneously redesigning its central office. This residency will focus on the innovative organizational practices Austin has put in place to support redesign across the district. |
January 20-21, 2009 |
Stanford, CA |
Annual LEADS Liaison Work Session We will come together in January to do major thinking and planning in four areas: |
March 31-April 2, 2009 |
Mapleton, CO |
The residency will focus on the issue of sustainable leadership and will be grounded in the work of Andy Hargreaves and Dean Fink. Dr. Fink will join us for the residency and will share with us the latest research on sustainable leadership. We will then consider the topic through the lens of the Mapleton Public Schools and apply what we are learning to all of the districts in the network. Full details will be available shortly. |
"LEADS focuses on a critical arena in school reform, and it is founded on operating principles that promote high quality practice and effective outcomes. First, all arrows point to instruction. The implicit, sometimes explicit theory guiding the work is that districts are there to support effective teaching, and every practice and policy needs to be assessed in that light. Second, it emphasizes the importance of evidence - decisions informed by careful analyses of information - which is so critical and all too rare at both district and school levels. Finally, LEADS stresses the importance of documenting knowledge that can be shared among participants and beyond. We spend too much time re-inventing the wheel in education. Learning about best practices is just as important at the district level as it is at the classroom level, and LEADS participants contribute to as well as benefit from that knowledge base."
— Deborah Stipek, Dean, Stanford University School of Education
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