How To Stay Focused on Teaching
and Learning in Tough Economic Times
Audience
Superintendents with board president and other board members, board secretary, business manager, person respon- sible for teaching and learning (curriculum director), principals
Description
As school leaders face difficult budget decisions, focusing on teaching and learning is even more challenging. This one-day workshop with Dr. Allan Odden, will offer strategies to as- sist in squeezing the most out of your education dollars. Dr. Odden is a professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis at the University of Wisconsin, and co-director of the Consortium for Policy Research in Education–Wis- consin Center for Education Research. He is a nationally recognized expert in resource allocation and fiscal policy.
Standards for School Leaders
- 1-Shared Vision
- 2-Culture of Learning
- 3-Management
Intended Outcomes
- Understanding of the key strategies needed to boost student learning and reduce the achievement gap, with the resource needs for each of those strategies.
- Understanding of how current resources—people, time and money—can be reallocated to fund the strategies that boost student achievement.
- Understanding the change process from going from the current context to a vision of the future, understanding that it might take three or more years, and knowing the basic steps that must be taken, beginning now, to move to that more effective future.
- Understanding the online simulation model that can indicate for each school in the district how much of the more effective school model can be currently financed, initial ideas of what to pare from the full model to what can be afforded, and thoughts about the implementation process from moving from today to the future.
- Review of a district model for simulating the ideas in point #4 for all schools in the district as a first step in both zero-based budgeting and rethinking change for all schools in the district.
Logistics
Date/Location/Time: May 12, 2010 (1A to 3A districts) or May 13, 2010 (4A districts), 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Sheraton Hotel, West Des Moines, IA
Costs: $50 per participant
How to Register
Online registration is available here.
Credit options
None
Prerequisites
None
More information
Download the workshop flyer here.
Providers
Area Education Agencies, Iowa ASCD, Iowa Association of School Boards, Iowa Association of School Business Officials, Iowa Superintendents Finance and Leadership Consortium, School Administrators of Iowa, Urban Education Network and The Wallace Foundation
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