Leadership Preparation Program

Annual Leadership Forum

The Annual Leadership Forum, convened by the SREB Learning-Centered Leadership Program, focuses on progress and challenges in achieving the SREB Challenge to Lead goal for school leadership. Approved by the region's leaders in 2002, the SREB Challenge to Lead Goals for Education call for states to ensure that all schools have effective leaders who can help improve student achievement.

The Forum agenda is designed to convey the need for change, spur states to action and keep the momentum in redesigning leadership preparation programs. Through a combination of panel discussions, presentations, breakout sessions and state team discussions, participants gain important insights into creating a cohesive, learning-centered leadership system and learn best practices from research and innovative state programs. Throughout the Forum, teams analyze their current status on critical indicators and make plans for improving and implementing statewide systems for quality leadership preparation and development.

The sixth Annual Leadership Forum is scheduled for May 7 - 8, 2009, in Atlanta, Georgia.

View information from previous Leadership Forums:

2007

2008

2007 Annual Leadership Forum

Download the summary report from the 2007 Leadership Forum.

Download the agenda from the 2007 Leadership Forum.

2008 Annual Leadership Forum

Download the agenda from the 2008 Leadership Forum.

To view the PowerPoint presentations from the 2008 Leadership Forum, please select a presenter's name, below:

Topic 1: Building Effective Principal Evaluation Systems

Andrew Porter, Dean, Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania, Vanderbilt Assessment of Leadership in Education (VAL-ED)

John Bell, Coordinator, Office of Leadership Development, Alabama Department of Education

Jere Vyverberg, School Administrators of Iowa and Superintendent, Waverly- Shellrock Community School District

Topic 2: Redesigning the State's System for Leadership Preparation and Support

Kathy O'Neill, Director, Learning-Centered Leadership Program, SREB

Topic 3: Changing the Working Conditions for School Leaders to Improve Teaching and Learning

Betty Fry, Director, Leadership Research and Publications, SREB

Don McAdams, President, Center on Reform of School Systems, Houston

Topic 4: Developing Leadership Capacity in Schools and Districts to Turn Around Low-Performing Schools

Andrew Calkins, Senior Vice President, Mass Insight Education and Research Institute

Kathy Nadurak, Executive Vice President of Programs, New York City Leadership Academy

Yvonne Thayer, Senior Director, Making Middle Grades Work and Special Projects, SREB

For more information, e-mail Kathy O'Neill at kathy.oneill@sreb.org.