DRAFT AGENDA – AS OF 3/4/11

2010-11 PANASONIC FOUNDATION LEADERSHIP ASSOCIATES PROGRAM

(LAP XII)

Institute II, May 5-7, 2011, New Orleans

THEME for the Year: Leveraging Resources to Achieve Equity Through High
Standards

LEARNING OBJECTIVES for the Year:

 Deepen understanding of how to strategically leverage scarce resources
to maximize impact on student learning and school improvement.
 Deepen understanding of how to promote system-wide coherence and
alignment around the instructional core.
 Deepen understanding of how to promote system-wide coherence and
alignment between high standards, curriculum, assessments of learning,
and professional learning.
 Deepen understanding of how to promote leadership at all levels that is
able to support system structures, culture, policies, and practices for
enabling all students to achieve high standards of learning.
 Expand knowledge of system structures, policies, and practices that
promote and sustain a commitment to “breaking the links” between race,
poverty, and educational outcomes.
 Deepen understanding of how to foster lateral and reciprocal evidence-
based accountability.

Thursday, May 5

7:00-8:15 – Breakfast

8:30-11:00 – Plenary Session

Keynote presentation by Stephanie Hirsh, Executive Director of Learning
Forward on Developing Assessment Literacy in Preparation for Common Core
State Standards

11:15-12:30 Team Session

Debrief the keynote

 What aha’s, questions, or concerns did the keynote provoke?
 What implications did the keynote have for our work on achievable results
(ARs) or for the district as a whole?

12:30—1:30 Lunch

1:30–5:00 – Team Session

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 Working on our Achievable Results

Reflections on the day/ process check

Friday, May 6

7:15-8:15 – Breakfast

8:30 – 11:00 – Plenary Session

Keynote presentation by Robert Peterkin, Harvard Graduate School of Education
(focus of presentation under discussion)

11:15 – 12:30 – Team Session

Debrief the cross-district learning and Friday keynote

 What aha’s, questions, or concerns did these events provoke?
 What implications did these events have for our work on achievable results
(ARs) or for the district as a whole?

12:30 – 1:30 – Lunch

1:30 – 5:00 – Team Session continued

Working on our ARs

Reflections on the day/process check

5:00 – 6:30 – Closing ceremony, including hor’deurs and celebration of two

“graduating” districts, with featured speaker, poet, and edutainer Lindamichelle
Baron

Saturday, May 7

7:45 – 8:45 – Literacy breakfast with Lindamichelle Baron (A maximum of 2

members from each team may attend; everyone else will have breakfast on their
own during the same timeframe.)

9 -- 12:30 – Team Session

Working on our ARs

Planning for re-entry

Final reflections

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