Leadership Matters - January 2013

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Click logo to register for Leadership Week Leadership Week to feature dynamic speakers

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.

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.” 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. (Continued on page 7) 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 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

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