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LEADS liaison meeting
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LEADS Annual District Liaisons Work Session
January 20-21, 2008, Stanford University
Attendees will participate in sessions with faculty from the Stanford schools of business, design, and education and will work to define the direction for upcoming LEADS learning events.
Overall objectives
• Set the direction for upcoming LEADS learning events.
• Learn about the latest research from faculty in the Stanford schools of business, design, and education and explore how to deepen the network’s engagement with each of these schools.
Agenda highlights
• School of Education Professor Susanna Loeb and her IREPP colleagues will present their latest findings on principal pipelines in LEADS districts and discuss next steps for their research in our network.
• Graduate School of Business (GSB) Professor Chip Heath will present his research on organizational change and discuss areas for continued exploration between LEADS districts and GSB faculty.
• Design School (d.school) K-12 Director Rich Crandall and his colleagues will facilitate a “design thinking workshop” and discuss challenges LEADS districts would like to address with d.school faculty in future LEADS sessions.
• Future planning: Using these experiences as a starting point, we will set the direction for future learning events, including an in-depth discussion of our emerging web-based Stanford Educational Leadership Series and this summer’s Executive Program for Educational Leaders (EPEL).
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Agenda (Draft)
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Overall objectives
Set the direction for upcoming LEADS learning events.
Learn about the latest research from faculty in the Stanford schools of business, design, and education and explore how to deepen the network’s engagement with each of these schools.
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center
1:00 p.m. |
Welcome |
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Peter Ross, Director of the LEADS Network |
1:15 p.m. |
Susanna Loeb, Stanford University Professor of Education, and IREPP staff |
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~ Latest findings on principal pipelines |
3:00 p.m. |
Break |
3:15 p.m. |
Chip Heath, Stanford University Thrive Foundation for Youth Professor of Organizational Behavior |
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“How People Change” |
5:30 p.m. |
Break |
6:30 – 8:30 p.m. |
Dinner — Sheraton Palo Alto |
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Sheraton Palo Alto
8:00 a.m. |
Breakfast |
8:20 a.m. |
Breakfast continues with framing for the day |
8:30 a.m. |
Rich Crandall, K-12 Director, Stanford University Design School Design thinking workshop and debrief on potential uses |
10:15 a.m. |
Break |
10:30 a.m. |
Small group conversations |
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~ Future residencies |
11:45 a.m. |
Facilitated Share-out and Whole Group Comment |
12:30 p.m. |
Working lunch |
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Discussion of “flex books” with Neeru Khosla and Murugan Pal of CK12 Foundation |
1:15 p.m. |
Getting set for Mapleton |
1:30 p.m. |
Adjourn |
"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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