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The Leading Learning for Results Institute Institute
is proud to present the following guest speakers:
Anthony Alvarado
 Tony, a prominent national leader and advocate for school reform, serves on numerous advisory boards and provides consultation to school systems worldwide. He is the former Chancellor of the New York City Board of Education and Superintendent of New York City Community District 2, where he pioneered nationally recognized district organizational changes that centered on professional development for teachers and principals. This effort resulted in unprecedented growth in student achievement in a complex and challenging urban school district setting. As Chancellor of Instruction in San Diego Unified School District, he led a massive reform effort to accelerate the learning of all children based on the theory of action that the key element of reform is the improvement of classroom instruction. He most recently served as Executive Director of the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, a commission established by the New York City Council to determine how best to allocate $23 billion toward the improvement of education for all children in New York City. He was recently featured in a PBS special "Making Schools Work: a roadmap for recovery" as a transformational leader of education reform. For more information please visit www.pbs.org/makingschoolswork/dwr/ny/alvarado.html
Anthony Bryk
 Tony is the Spencer Professor of Education and Organizational Behavior at the Business School and the School of Education at Stanford University. He is an expert in school organization, accountability, data analysis and assessment. In his tenure as professor of Urban Education at the University of Chicago and founder of the Center for School Improvement, he produced leaders prepared to improve the achievement of low income students in the nation's third largest public school system. He also created the Consortium on Chicago School Research, a federation of Chicago area research organizations. His reform focus is "to produce, not small, marginal changes in our schools, but rather the invention of new institutions–where students learn in different ways, as well as to much higher levels." Tony's research documents that when inner-city students are challenged with ambitious intellectual work, their test scores rise. He has coauthored numerous reports and books, including his most recent book with Barbara Schneider, Trust in Schools: A Core Resource for Improvement. Among his awards and recognitions are the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation Prize for Distinguished Contributions to Educational Scholarship and the Distinguished Career Contributions Award from the American Educational Research Association. For more information please visit www.gsb.stanford.edu/news/bmag/sbsm0411/faculty_news.shtml
Katherine Casey
 Katherine Casey is a nationally known consultant in the areas of building adult learning communities, coaching and professional development. She began her teaching career in New York City’s District 2 during the superintendencies of Anthony Alvarado and Elaine Fink. Ms. Casey now consults and provides staff development in literacy instruction, mathematics instruction, and instructional leadership in school districts in California, Missouri, New York, and Washington. Her work in schools is multi-layered: she works with site leadership teams to research and analyze student performance in order to plan and implement effective professional development; develops adult learning communities within schools and districts, coaches alongside the staff developers to improve teacher practice and student achievement; and models exemplary teaching for both children and adults. Ms. Casey is an instructor in the graduate school of education at the University of San Diego and supports the development of San Diego principals and vice principals in the Educational Leadership Development Academy. She has recently completed a book, Literacy Coaching: The Essentials and is due out summer 2006, Heinemann Publishers
Paula Cordeiro
 Paula, Dean of the School of Leadership and Education Sciences at the University of San Diego is nationally recognized as an innovator in school leadership development programs. Holding social justice and equity as core values and understanding the essential role school leadership plays in reform, she created a ground-breaking model of leadership training in her work at the University of Connecticut with the Danforth/Connecticut Administrator Program. Building on this work she created the Educational Leadership Development Academy (ELDA) at USD. She is actively involved with and holds leadership positions in numerous national and international professional organizations, including past president of the University Council for Education Administration. Her work has led to numerous reports and publications examining the effective elements of leadership and leadership training programs. Her most recent book with William Cummingham, Educational Leadership: A Problem-Based Approach, focuses on developing instructional leaders prepared to face the challenge of leading school reform. Under her direction the School of Leadership and Education Sciences collaborates with local schools to accelerate the performance of children in multicultural environments through improved leadership, quality teaching/learning, and effective student support services. For additional information please visit www.sandiego.edu/academics/soles/aboutsoles/dean.php
Rudy Crew
 Dr. Rudolph F. "Rudy" Crew became Superintendent of Miami-Dade County Public Schools on July 1, 2004, following a nationwide search by the nation's fourth-largest school district. Dr. Crew has defined three priorities for the school district: eliminating low-performing schools, increasing academic achievement for all students and bringing cost-efficiency to the district's construction and business practices. Dr. Crew is a lifelong educator whose career has spanned from the classroom to the chancellorship of the nation's largest school district, New York City Public Schools, where he served from 1995-1999. He began his administrative career as principal of San Antonio High School in Claremont , California . Along his way to Miami , his career took him to Boston , Sacramento and Washington state.For additional information please visit http://www.dadeschools.net/superintendent/crew/bio.htm
Linda Darling-Hammond
 Linda is Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education at Stanford University School of Education where she launched the Stanford Educational Leadership Institute and the School Redesign Network. She also served as Executive Director of the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future which produced the 1996 widely cited commentary on education reform: What Matters Most: Teaching for America's Future. Her research, teaching, and policy work focus on teaching and teacher education, school reform, and educational equity. She has been active in the development of standards for teaching, having served as a two-term member of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards and as chair of the Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (INTASC) committee that drafted model standards for licensing beginning teachers. She is author of The Right To Learn, A Blueprint for Creating Schools That Work which received the American Educational Research Association's Outstanding Book Award for 1998 and Teaching as the Learning Profession; A Handbook of Policy and Practice (editor with Gary Sykes), recipient of the National Staff development Council's Outstanding Book Award for 2000. She has authored over six books and more than 200 book chapters, journal articles, and monographs on education. Most recently she has researched the elements of effective school leadership, the features of successful professional preparation and the pathways to leadership development. For more information please visit ed.stanford.edu/suse/faculty/displayRecord.php?suid=ldh
Elaine Fink
 Elaine is a nationally known consultant to school districts seeking to accelerate student learning through strengthening leadership practice. Her unique combination of creative problem-solving, keen instructional eye and a practitioner's point-of-view guides her work with school leaders seeking effective reform. As former Superintendent of New York City Community District 2, she implemented an extremely successful and celebrated national model of professional development for teachers and administrators. During her tenure, she spearheaded the development of Focused Literacy among the district's lowest performing schools. With a strong combination of professional development in literacy and instructional supervision, student learning accelerated. Elaine's work in New York and San Diego, consistently focused on the development of leaders as the lynch-pin for improving student achievement. She was instrumental in developing the Aspiring Leaders Program, a collaborative with the New York City Community District 2 school district and Baruch University to develop high quality instructional leaders. She subsequently designed and became the Executive Director, of the Educational Leadership Development Academy (ELDA), at the University of San Diego. ELDA has received national recognition as a model program for training school instructional leaders. Elaine was featured in the recent PBS special, "Making Schools Work: a roadmap for recovery."
Pedro Noguera
 Pedro is a professor in the Steinhardt School of Education at New York University, a co-director of the Institute for the Study of Globalization and Education in Metropolitan Settings, and the Director of the Metropolitan Center for Urban Education. He is recognized as an expert on topics such as urban school reform, conditions that promote student achievement and race and ethnic relations in American society. Pedro has served as an advisor and engaged in collaborative research with large urban school districts throughout the United States. He has also conducted research on issues related to education and economic and social development in the Caribbean, Latin America and other countries throughout the world. He was the Judith K. Dimon Professor of Communities and Schools at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, a Professor in Social and Cultural Studies at the Graduate School of Education and the Director of the Institute for the Study of Social Change at the University of California, Berkeley. He has published over one hundred research articles, and reports. His most recent book is City Schools and the American Dream: Reclaiming the Promise of Public Education. Among his awards are the Centennial Medal, Philadelphia University; Honorary Doctorate, University of San Francisco; and Distinguished Teaching Award, UC Berkeley. For more information please visit www.education.nyu.edu/education/steinhardt/db/faculty/1340
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