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MONDAY MORNING MAILING
March 6, 2006
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- Important Announcements for ALL Students
- * HGSE Blood Drive - Mar. 9
- Announcements & Reminders
- * How to submit an announcement to MMM
- * Loan Consolidation Information session
- Events, Presentations, & Workshops
- * Student Panel on HIV/AIDS - Mar. 6
- * From Research to the Classroom: A Publisher's Perspective - Mar. 6
- * Taylor Branch: America in the King Years - Mar. 6
- * Judging NCLB: Rod Paige and CT's Education Commissioner Debate - Mar. 7
- * Jeanne S. Chall Lecture and Award Presentation - Mar. 7
- * Community Organizing and School Reform - Mar. 9
- * Learning to be a Citizen: Civic Education and Immigration in the U.S. - Mar. 14
- * Movie & Discussion: Globalization & the Bhutanese Culture - Mar. 16
- * What Happens When Courts Make Funding Plentiful for Poor School Districts? New Jersey’s Abbott Districts - Mar. 16
- * Educational Research in the 21st Century: Connecting the Scholar and the Classroom - Mar. 23
- * HGSE Reception at AERA: Save the date - Apr. 10
- * Educational Entrepreneurship: Assessment, Technology, and Business - Apr. 17
- * EndNote Basics
- * Advanced EndNote 9 Workshops
- * Finding Articles: Education Databases (EBSCO) Workshop
- Clubs, Organizations, & Committees
- * Class Gift Committee Meeting - Mar. 6
- * International Education Research Community - Mar. 16
- * Calling all National Board Certified Teachers at HGSE - Mar. 22
- * PDK - Apr. 5
- * Wanna talk about love? Join a discussion group!
- Job & Volunteer Opportunities
- * Harvard Bridge to Learning and Literacy program
- * Chicago Area Instructional Officer
- Links to archived Monday Morning Mailings
- * February 27, 2006
- * February 20, 2006
- * February 13, 2006
- * February 6, 2006
- * January 30, 2006
- * January 23, 2006
- * January 16, 2006
- * January 9, 2006
- * December 19, 2005
- * December 12, 2005
- * December 5, 2005
- * November 28, 2005
- * November 21, 2005
- * November 14, 2005
- * November 7, 2005
- * October 31, 2005
- * October 24, 2005
- * October 17, 2005
- * October 10, 2005
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IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR ALL STUDENTS
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HGSE Blood Drive - Mar. 9
The American Red Cross needs our help. Please consider signing up to donate blood on Thursday, March 9, between 10:00 and 3:00 in Gutman Conference Center.
Giving blood is simple, safe and takes about an hour. The actual donation takes 6 to 10 minutes.
Click here to learn more about the process, and click here to confirm that you are eligible to give blood.
You may sign up for a time slot at the SGA table in Gutman, or e-mail us to reserve one.
Thank you, and spread the word!
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ANNOUNCEMENTS & REMINDERS
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How to submit an announcement to MMM
To submit an announcement to the Monday Morning Mailing, please e-mail the text and the title (which we will use as the e-mail link) to sga@gse.harvard.edu by 5:00 p.m. on the Friday before it is to appear. Your title should be to the point and should include any pressing deadlines. We request that you make your announcement as brief as possible and direct interested students to an e-mail address, phone number, or web site through which they can obtain more detailed information.
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Loan Consolidation Information session
Financial Aid Office presents:
Loan Consolidation Information session
Tuesday March 7 5-6:30
Monday March 13 5-6:30
Askwih Hall
Presenter, Financial Aid Office
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EVENTS, PRESENTATIONS, & WORKSHOPS
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Student Panel on HIV/AIDS - Mar. 6
STUDENT PANEL ON HIV/AIDS
Come listen to students from HBS, KSG, HSPH and other schools talk about their experience in working for organizations combating HIV/AIDS in the developing world. Come learn about opportunities for you to get involved NOW!
MONDAY, MARCH 6TH
4:00-5:00 PM
ALDRICH 210
HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL
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From Research to the Classroom: A Publisher's Perspective - Mar. 6
Margery Mayer, President, Scholastic Education
Monday, March 6
Seminar 3 - 5 pm and reception 5 - 6:30 pm in Eliot Lyman Room, Longfellow Hall
Open to the Public
Scholastic, the world's largest publisher and distributor of children's books, has created some of the most successful and well-researched learning programs now in use in schools. Margery Mayer, the President of Scholastic Education, oversees all of Scholastic's classroom-oriented products, including curriculum materials for students, teacher materials, and teacher professional development. Mayer will describe how she works with leading academic figures to translate literacy research into commercial print and media products. She promises a revealing glimpse into the educational publishing industry.
Co-sponsored by the HGSE Language and Literacy and Technology, Innovation, and Education programs.
www.gse.harvard.edu/tie
www.gse.harvard.edu/langlit
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Taylor Branch: America in the King Years - Mar. 6
Pulitzer Prize-winning author TAYLOR BRANCH discusses
AT CANAAN'S EDGE: America in the King Years, 1965-1968
7:00 p.m., Monday, March 6, 2006
Cambridge Forum
3 Church Street (Harvard Square)
Cambridge, MA 02138
Tickets are required for this program. Call Cambridge Forum at 617-495-2727 to reserve a free ticket. Tickets are also available from Harvard Book Store for $3.
Pulitzer Prize winner Taylor Branch discusses the final years of Martin Luther King Jr's life when King and America stood "at Canaan's edge." In the third and final volume of his three-part biography of Martin Luther King, Jr., At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-1968, Branch paints a vivid picture of American society in the mid-20th century. As the war in Vietnam and social unrest at home began to fray the nation's optimism and faith in the future, King sought to expand the Civil Rights Movement into protests of the war and calls for broader social and economic justice. Within a few short years, his commanding and prophetic voice was silenced. How ready was America in 1965 to hear King's message? Are we any closer to achieving his dream today, four decades after his assassination?
Taylor Branch is the best-selling author of Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-1963 (for which he won the Pulitzer Prize) and Pillar of Fire, the second volume of the trilogy covering the years 1963-1965. He has won nearly every major literary award for his trilogy including the National Book Critics Circle Award and Best Book of the Year from The New York Times Book Review, the Boston Globe and the Los Angeles Times. The author of two other non-fiction books and a novel, he is a former staff member of The Washington Monthly, Harper's and Esquire.
Cambridge Forums are free and open to the public. Open discussion, moderated by Dr. Preston Williams of Harvard Divinity School, follows the presentation. Copies of Branch's book will be for sale at the event which is co-sponsored by the Harvard Book Store. Events are taped and edited for public radio broadcast throughout the nation. Edited CDs are available to the public by contacting 617-495-2727. Select forums can be viewed in their entirety on demand by visiting our website at www.cambridgeforum.org and clicking on the WGBH Forum Network.
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Judging NCLB: Rod Paige and CT's Education Commissioner Debate - Mar. 7
Judging No Child Left Behind Act: Rod Paige and Connectucut's Education Commissioner Debate
Tuesday, March 7, 2006, 4:45pm
Harvard Law School, Austin East
Brought to you by the Harvard Educational Review
Panelists:
Dr. Rod Paige, former U.S. Secretary of Education
Dr. Betty Sternberg, Connecticut State Education Commissioner
Mary Skipper, Headmaster, TechBoston Academy
Moderator: Albert Kauffman, Harvard Civil Rights Project
For more information, contact: J.D. LaRock, larockje@gse.harvard.edu
Background: The already controversial No Child Left Behind Act made headlines this past August when Connecticut filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court against the U.S.Department of Education. Connecticut claims that the department is violating the NCLB prohibition against "unfunded mandates" by requiring the state to replace its current student accountability system of bi-annual testing with an annual testing system, which has entailed the use of $50 million in state funds. This legal challenge has led to early national debate concerning the reauthorization of NCLB, which Congress must renew next year. Co-sponsored by Advocates for Education and the American Constitution Society.
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Jeanne S. Chall Lecture and Award Presentation - Mar. 7
Tuesday, March 7
5:30-7:00 PM
Andrew Biemiller, former director of the Master’s Program in Child Study and Education at the University of Toronto, will present the second annual Jeanne S. Chall Lecture, Words Worth Teaching and Where They Came From. Biemiller’s current research involves vocabulary development identifying specific vocabulary needed during the elementary years, analysis of developmental factors in vocabulary development, and testing new teaching methods for promoting vocabulary and language development in both primary and junior grades. Kathleen McCartney, Acting Dean and Gerald S. Lesser Professor of Early Childhood Development, will provide an introduction to the lecture. A reception, and presentation of the Jeanne S. Chall Doctoral Student Research Award to Margaret Pierce, will follow. For information, contact Meghan Liegel at liegelme@gse.harvard.edu. Gutman Conference Center.
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Community Organizing and School Reform - Mar. 9
Askwith Education Forum
Thursday, March 9
6:00-7:30 PM
This forum will focus on community organizing as a strategy to build civic participation and power in low income communities and as a powerful force for change in urban schools. Ernesto Cortés, Jr., Director of the Southwest Industrial Areas Foundation, will speak about forging broad-based and multiracial alliances for social change. He will discuss his work as founder of Alliance Schools, the nation's largest community-based school reform network, bringing public schools into the organizing process as centers for democratic life. Drawing upon her work, Jeannie Oakes, Presidential Professor in Educational Equity at UCLA and Director of UCLA's Institute for Democracy, Education & Access, will discuss the role that academics and researchers can play as collaborators with community and youth organizations to build a new movement for educational equity and justice. Karen Mapp, Lecturer on Education at HGSE and former deputy superintendent of Family and Community Engagement for the Boston Public Schools, will serve as a respondent. This discussion will be moderated by Mark Warren, Associate Professor of Education, HGSE. This forum is co-sponsored by the doctoral concentration in Culture, Communities, and Education. For information, contact Meghan Liegel at liegelme@gse.harvard.edu. Askwith Lecture Hall, Longfellow Hall.
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Learning to be a Citizen: Civic Education and Immigration in the U.S. - Mar. 14
Askwith Education Forum
Learning to be a Citizen: Civic Education and Immigration in the U.S.
Tuesday, March 14
5:00-6:30 PM
Askwith Lecture Hall, Longfellow Hall
Please join us for a discussion of the opportunities that this fourth wave of immigration pose for the civic education of immigrant children, and for the debates about membership in American society. Participants will address questions such as: How important is political socialization of immigrant children to the expansion of their opportunities, relative to the development of cognitive skills and credentials with more immediate returns on the marketplace? Should civic education be a priority in schools with a concentration of immigrant children? And if so, what kind of civic education would be most helpful to develop effective political participation among these new Americans?
Panelists will include: Massachusetts State Senator Jarrett Barrios (D-Cambridge); Maria Carlo, Assistant Professor, School of Education, University of Miami; Antonio Gonzalez, President, Southwest Voter Registration Education Project; Judith Torney-Purta, Professor of Human Development, University of Maryland; and Fernando Reimers, Ford Foundation Professor of International Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education. This forum is co-sponsored with the University Committee for Human Rights Studies.
For information, contact Meghan Liegel at liegelme@gse.harvard.edu. All Askwith Education Forums are free and open to the general public. Tickets are not necessary, unless otherwise noted. Seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis.
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Movie & Discussion: Globalization & the Bhutanese Culture - Mar. 16
Please join the International Education Research Community on Thursday, 3/16/06, at 7pm for the viewing of the first feature-length motion picture filmed in Bhutan, one of the most isolated countries in the world. Robert Lindsley, a HGSE doctoral student, will lead an informal discussion following the movie. Please email Connie K. Chung (chungco1@gse.harvard.edu) for the location, more information, or to join the IERC list-serv.
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What Happens When Courts Make Funding Plentiful for Poor School Districts? New Jersey’s Abbott Districts - Mar. 16
Askwith Education Forum
What Happens When Courts Make Funding Plentiful for Poor School Districts? New Jersey’s Abbott Districts
Thursday, March 16
5:30-7:00 PM
Askwith Lecture Hall, Longfellow Hall
Can whole school systems be transformed to close achievement gaps? Does money matter? Thirty little-known Abbott Districts in New Jersey are the nation’s leading response. State aid resulting from thirty years of legal challenges makes average per pupil spending in Abbott districts higher now than in the state’s suburbs. The Abbott and Union City stories are not well known, but have national implications.
This forum will feature Gordon MacInnes, Assistant Commissioner for Abbott Implementation, and Fred Carrigg, Special Assistant to the Commissioner for Urban Literacy, who helped move Union City from the second lowest-performing system in New Jersey to the highest among the state’s larger systems. Ronald Ferguson, Lecturer in Public Policy, Kennedy School of Government, will moderate.
Offered in collaboration with the Achievement Gap Initiative, this is the first in a series of three events.
For information, contact Meghan Liegel at liegelme@gse.harvard.edu. All Askwith Education Forums are free and open to the general public. Tickets are not necessary, unless otherwise noted. Seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis.
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Educational Research in the 21st Century: Connecting the Scholar and the Classroom - Mar. 23
Askwith Education Forum
Educational Research in the 21st Century: Connecting the Scholar and the Classroom
Thursday, March 23
5:30-7:00 PM
Askwith Lecture Hall, Longfellow Hall
How is educational research evolving? How are researchers addressing changing demands of the field, developing technology and globalization, as well as increased aims to link educational theory, practice, and policy? This forum includes panelists with diverse perspectives - those involved in both qualitative and quantitative study, those who have pioneered new ways of approaching investigation, and those who combine research with practice - who will reflect on the past and future of educational research, especially its role in driving the field of education forward. Offered in collaboration with the Harvard Educational Review in celebration of HER's 75th anniversary. Speakers will include: Kevin Kumashiro, Director, Center for Anti-Oppressive Education; Richard Murnane, Academic Dean and Juliana W. and William Foss Thompson Professor of Education and Society, Harvard Graduate School of Education; Sonia Nieto, Professor of Language, Literacy & Culture, University of Massachusetts at Amherst. The discussion will be moderated by Kathleen McCartney, Acting Dean and Gerald S. Lesser Professor of Early Childhood Development.
For information, contact Meghan Liegel at liegelme@gse.harvard.edu. All Askwith Education Forums are free and open to the general public. Tickets are not necessary, unless otherwise noted. Seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis.
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HGSE Reception at AERA: Save the date - Apr. 10
HGSE Reception at the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting
If you are planning to attend the AERA annual meeting in San Francisco from April 7-11, please be sure to join us for the Harvard Graduate School of Education reception! Mingle and meet HGSE faculty, students, alumni, and friends. Kathleen McCartney, Acting Dean and Gerald S. Lesser Professor of Early Childhood Development, will host.
Monday April 10, 7:00-8:30 PM
Hotel Nikko, Golden Gate Room
For information, contact Meghan Liegel at liegelme@gse.harvard.edu.
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Educational Entrepreneurship: Assessment, Technology, and Business - Apr. 17
Technology, Innovation, and Education Program at HGSE
Seminar series, Spring 2006
TIE seminars are open to all members of Harvard University and to the interested public.
Educational Entrepreneurship: Assessment, Technology, and Business
Larry Berger, CEO and co-founder, Wireless Generation
Monday, April 17, 2 - 4 pm in Longfellow 319
Wireless Generation markets "handheld-to-Web" technology for assessing young children's reading skills. A more complete description of the company and its products is available on the Web, at www.wirelessgeneration.com. Larry Berger will focus on entrepreneurship in new media, and on the challenge of dealing with reading standards and assessment procedures in 48 different states.
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EndNote Basics
EndNote is a software program for storing and managing bibliographic references. With it, you can create your own database of references, including ones you import from library catalogs and online databases. These can include links to full text when available. Use EndNote to sort, search, and format references, and to insert them into Word documents to create in-text citations and reference lists automatically. Note: Students usually purchase EndNote to work on long-term research projects, such as a dissertation or comprehensive literature review.
At the end of this workshop, you will be able to create an EndNote library and add records to it. You’ll be able to search and sort those references and use EndNote’s Cite While You Write feature to insert them into a Word document. You’ll know how to set preferences, what EndNote filters and connection files are, how to find and install these for HOLLIS Catalog, and how to import/export references from Harvard’s e-resources into EndNote.
Both sessions are 1 1/2 hours
No sign-up necessary
March 16, Thursday
11am – 12:30pm
April 13th, Thursday
10am -11:30am
LOCATION: G302 – Third Floor Gutman Library
Scheduling Conflict? Questions? Contact the Research Services Desk (617-495-3421)
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Advanced EndNote 9 Workshops
Learn how EndNote filters, templates, and output styles work together and how to customize them when necessary so that they work well with commonly-used citation sources such as ERIC.
This session is intended for those who are comfortable with EndNote’s basic functions (formatting a paper, importing citations from Harvard’s E-resources, and working with the citation database), but would like to learn how to create fixes when EndNote doesn’t work the way you expect or want it to.
Laptops welcome. Windows users, please be sure you've installed EndNote 9.0.1 Updater for Windows available at http://www.endnote.com/support/enupdates.asp
March 9, Thursday, 1pm - 2:30 pm
April 6, Thursday, 1 pm - 2:30 pm
Location: Gutman 302 -Third Floor, Gutman Library
Both sessions are 1 1/2 hours
No sign-up necessary
Scheduling Conflict? Questions? Contact the Research Services Desk (617-495-3421)
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Finding Articles: Education Databases (EBSCO) Workshop
Learn about and learn how to use a group of EBSCO journal article databases (ERIC, Education Abstracts, and Academic Search Premier) that are major resources for education researchers.
At the end of this workshop, you will understand the content, strengths, and weaknesses of these three databases. You will also be able to find articles by specific authors, search efficiently and effectively for topics, print, download or email yourself full text (when available), and set up your own personal folder on the EBSCO server to store citations and searches.
March 3rd, Friday
11am – noon
March 16th, Thursday
2pm – 3pm
April 14th, Friday
11am – noon
April 25th, Tuesday
11am – noon
LOCATION: G302 – Third Floor Gutman Library
Scheduling Conflict? Questions? Contact the Research Services Desk (617-495-3421)
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CLUBS, ORGANIZATIONS, & COMMITTEES
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Class Gift Committee Meeting - Mar. 6
Make new friends!
Build your resume!
Make a lasting contribution to HGSE!
Join us as we raise money for financial aid for the Class of 2007. As a member of the Class Gift Committee, you can make a difference and help make an HGSE education more affordable.
Monday, March 6
12:30-1:30 p.m.
2nd-floor conference room
44R Brattle Street (in the alley behind Crate & Barrel)
Lunch will be served!
For more information, contact Katy Aronoff at aronofca@gse.harvard.edu or 617-495-3488.
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International Education Research Community - Mar. 16
Thursday, 3/16/06 7pm
We are a group of students interested in international education research. Through a list-serv and meetings, we hope to network, share ideas and information, and otherwise socialize and support each other. Join us on Thursday 3/16/06 7pm as we watch a video and discuss the culture of Bhutan, one of the most isolated kingdoms in the world (click here for more information). Email Connie K. Chung (chungco1@gse.harvard.edu) for more information.
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Calling all National Board Certified Teachers at HGSE - Mar. 22
You are invited to come meet one another and to learn about each others' academic interests. You will not be asked to "document your accomplishments" or reflect on the "impact on student learning"... just come and meet your colleagues! Snacks will be provided. Wednesday, March 22, 4:00-5:30 in Larsen 710. Please RSVP to Su. Henry henrysu@gse.harvard.edu or Jill Harrison Berg bergji@gse.harvard.edu.
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PDK - Apr. 5
Greeting HGSE Students,
We will be holding our Annual Phi Delta Kappa Initiation on Wednesday, April 5 in the Eliot-Lyman Room from 3:30-5:30. PDK International President, Dr. JoAnn Fujioka will be our keynote speaker. Refreshments.
This email is an invitation to all of you to join our honorary educational association. The requirements are: write a one page essay on your philosophy of education; complete an application, which can be obtained at the Student Affairs Office, Larsen 101; write a check for $85 for dues which includes local ($15) and International ($70) dues, payable to Harvard PDK. This completed application must be submitted on or before April 3, 2006 to Dr. Roseann E. Stephens, P.O. Box 1367, W. Chatham, MA 02669. At the Initiation you will receive your Phi Delta Kappa Honor Cord from us with pleasure. You may wear it at Graduation.
If you have any questions please email me at DrREStephens@cs.com or by phone at 508-945-8752.
Best Regards, Roseann E. Stephens, VP Membership
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Wanna talk about love? Join a discussion group!
Hey HGSE students! I'm putting together a discussion group on a documentary series to be broadcast on PBS next year. The films are part of an upcoming "Campaign for Love and Forgiveness" underwritten by the Fetzer Institute. Topics will include modern conceptions of love as portrayed in the media, and as an agent for community engagement and social change. If interested, please email gibasna@gse.harvard.edu for more information.
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JOB & VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES
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Harvard Bridge to Learning and Literacy program
Please give us two hours a week! The Harvard Bridge to Learning and Literacy is a worker education program for all the service employees at Harvard. Many of the custodians, pot washers, landscapers and bus drivers, to name just a few of the workers taking Bridge classes, need basic computer skills. They know they are missing out on at least 75% of the information available to people all over the world. Please volunteer 2 hours a week to teach one person how to use a computer. We are holding a training (with lunch) on Thursday, March 16th from 12-1:15pm to introduce you to the basic lessons which have helped over 100 service workers master computer skills. This may just be the best two hours you spend all week.
For information contact: Carol Kolenik
carol_kolenik@harvard.edu
617-495-2535
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Chicago Area Instructional Officer
The Chicago Public Schools is conducting a national search for Area Instructional Officers (AIOs). Each AIO works with 20-30 schools to support, develop, coach and supervise principals in providing instructional leadership. They also allocate area instructional support resources based on school performance and need, and work with Local School Councils and other CPS departments to identify, prepare, place and retain great principals in area schools.
Contact 773-553-3156 or lstanton@cps.k12.il.us for more information.
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Please e-mail sga@gse.harvard.edu with submissions, comments, suggestions, or questions.