Convention 2011 >> Wallace Strand
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Wallace Session One: District Conditions that Support Effective Leadership Practice: Lessons from the Wallace Foundation
Panel Presentation, Thursday, 10:00am-11:30am, UCEA Plenum Meeting
Chair/Discussants: Mike Knapp, University of Washington
Participants: Daniel Player, Darden-Curry Partnership in Leadership Education; Meredith Honig, University of Washington, Karen Seashore, University of Minnesota; Andrea Rorrer, University of Utah
Session Description: In this presentation participants will share their research findings and develop efforts concerning the district level conditions that impact the practice and effectiveness of school principals. In particular, participants will focus on implications of their work for the development of effective district conditions, university-district preparation partnerships and the preparation of district level leaders.
Wallace Session Two: Assessing Leadership Effectiveness for Preparation Program Improvement
Symposia, Thursday from 3-4:20 pm, Somerset East
Chair/Discussant: Pamela Tucker, University of Virginia
Panelists: Joseph Murphy, Vanderbilt University; Ellen Goldring, Vanderbilt University; M. Terry Orr, Bankstreet College, National Center for Educational Leadership Preparation and Practice; Carolyn Kelley, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Session Description: This workshop will focus on assessing leadership effectiveness for the purpose of improving professional preparation. Presenters will discuss new direction in principal evaluation and its applicability to leadership preparation programs. Presenters will introduce the following evaluation instruments and their utility for educational leadership preparation: the Vanderbilt Assessment of Leadership in Education (VAL-ED), the School Leadership Preparation and Practice Survey (SLPPS) Suite, and the CALL.
Wallace Session Three: Building a Leadership Pipeline A Wallace Foundation Town Hall
Town Hall General Session, Friday, November 18, 2011 - 2:30 PM - 3:50 PM, Alleghany 1
Session Introduction: Michelle D. Young, UCEA Executive Director
Introductions: Ann O’Doherty, University of Texas-Austin
Panelists: Mike Knapp, U. Washington; LeAnn Buntrock, Darden-Curry Partnership for Leaders in Education; Tom Boasberg, Superintendent of Denver Public Schools and Maureen Sanders, Director of Leadership Development at Denver Public Schools; Susan Korach, U. Denver; James Cibulka, National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education.
Session Description: This town hall session will focus on The Wallace Foundation’s new initiative to help six urban school districts and partner principal training programs develop a much larger corps of effective school principals and to determine whether and how such partnerships improve student achievement in schools with the greatest needs. The new “principal pipeline” initiative takes previous Wallace research and development efforts an important step further. Participants will share their perspectives on the importance of a pipeline, discuss the importance of district conditions and quality preparation for successful leaders and share the key elements of their work and lessons learned.
Wallace Session Four: Using Data to Spark Program Change
Workshop, Sunday, November 20, 2011 - 10:00am -12:00 pm, Crawford West
Chair/Facilitators: Ann O’Doherty and Mark Good, University of Texas-Austin
Presenters: Cheryl King, Education Development Council; Susan Korach, National Evaluation Center for Educational Leadership Preparation and Practice; Pamela Tucker, University of Virginia
Session Description: In this session, presenters will share a variety of assessment tools to improve principal programs. Cheryl King will share Quality Measures (QM), which can be used to determine whether university programs reflect the features of quality leadership preparation. Susan Korach will share the School Leadership Preparation and Practice Survey (SLPPS) Suite of surveys designed to provide programs with data for program improvement. Participants will discuss how to work with faculty to improve their programs based on these and other data sources. Pamela Tucker will discuss the importance of planning for evaluation, her experience doing so at UVA and how the QM and SLPPS tools as well as faculty developed tools fit within the planning and implementation process.
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