EDU 512: Distinguished Practitioners Series for Educational Leadership and Societal Change: Guest Speakers Spring 2016
This LibGuide contains information about the speakers for this course and material to support SUA graduate students as they complete their assignments.
The guest speakers for Spring 2016 were Frank DeAngelis, Jayne Ellspermann, Thelma Melendez, Carlos M. Azcoitia, Stephanie Hirsh, and Eric Nadelstern. You will find their bios or articles by or about them below.
"This Wallace Perspective summarizes a decade of foundation research and work in school leadership to identify what it is that effective school principals do. It concludes that they carry out five key actions particularly well, including shaping a vision of academic success for all students and cultivating leadership in others. The Perspective is an expanded edition of a report originally published in 2012." From the Wallace Foundation's website.
This is a link to the PDF document proposing revisions to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA). The document was released March 13, 2010 and is available from the U.S. Department of Education website.
This resolution was presented to the Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education in 2005 on June 14th. The resolution language and voting results are available from the LAUSD website.
The website does not create permalinks for individual resolutions, so you will need to copy the title of the resolution above and paste it into the "Title" search box the link opens to.
A resolution from 2015 related to the one above, "Equity on A-G: Reaffirming Our Commitment to A-G Life Preparation for All," can also found at the LAUSD website. Click "Search" and copy and paste the resolution's title as you did with the one from 2005. This second resolution was presented on June 9, 2015.
The article, which is by Carlos Azcoitia, can be found in the February 13, 2006 edition--volume 16, issue 9, page 72. You will need to log in with your SUA credentials to access the journal.
This link takes you to the blog posts available on the Learning Forward page. For the Education Week blog, see the PD Watch link in the Guest Speaker Bios box.