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The IASA’s first-ever Leadership Week will be
held February 26-28 at the President Abraham
Lincoln Hotel in Springfield and will offer
attendees the opportunity to hear some dynamic
presentations as well as participate in Legislative
Advocacy Day in the state capitol. The General
Assembly will be in session.
There is no registration fee, and active and
retired members can register by simply clicking
on the Leadership Week logo on this page.
Leadership Week is being co-sponsored by
American Fidelity Assurance Company and
SMART Technologies, Inc.
Breakfast will be provided at 8:30 a.m. on
Day One of Leadership Week. Attendees are on
their own for all other meals and for housing.
The lineup of speakers includes:
Cambridge Strategic Services
President
Dr. John Draper
,
who
will make a presentation titled
“Crucial
Conversations
about
America’s Schools” on Tuesday,
February 26, the first day of
Leadership Week.
Dr. Drapers’ presentation is based on the
book by the same name that he co-authored. In
his presentation he will take apart some of the
myths about failing public schools. He will
separate fact from fiction regarding such issues
as dropouts, achievement gaps, pay-for-
performance, charter schools, standardized test
scores and international testing.
The son of two teachers and the product of
public schools, Dr. Draper began his career in
education as a middle school science and math
teacher in Alabama. He also served as a middle
school and high school principal before being
tapped to lead the Council for Leaders in
Alabama Schools (CLAS), a statewide non-profit
group representing school administrators.
After serving nine years as executive director
of CLAS, Dr. Draper was named CEO of the
Educational Research Service, a national, non-
profit research company based in Washington,
D.C., where he served until becoming president
of Cambridge Strategic Services, an organization
that guides school leaders in building proactive
plans for the future.
“Education is, by nature, much too reactive,”
Dr. Draper says. “We must become fully engaged
in determining the future of public schools in
America.”
Dr. Anthony C. Frontier, associate
professor in Doctoral Leadership
Studies at Cardinal Stritch
University in Milwaukee,
who will
make a presentation titled “Beyond
Judgment:
Supervision
that
Develops Teacher Expertise.”
The presentation will discuss how to
empower teachers to improve their practice in an
era that is primarily focused on measuring their
competence. Dr. Frontier will provide examples of
the five components of supervisory systems that
build teacher expertise as described in the book
he co-authored titled “Effective Supervision:
Supporting the Art & Science of Teaching.”
Frontier began his career in education as a
middle school teacher in Milwaukee and also
served as an assistant high school principal in
Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin, where he later was the
district’s director of curriculum and instruction for
nine years. At Cardinal Stritch University, Dr.
Frontier teaches courses in curriculum
development, organizational learning, research
methods and statistics.
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Leadership Week to feature dynamic speakers
