Stanford University School of Education
Cubberley Lecture Series
Creating Effective Schools:
Bridging the Teaching and Leadership Divide
A conversation with
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Anthony Alvarado
Olivier Nomellini Professor
School of Education
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Linda Darling-Hammond
Charles E. Ducommun Professor
School of Education
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Monday, April 7, 2008, from 6:00 – 7:00 p.m.
Cubberley Auditorium, School of Education
485 Lasuen Mall — welcome reception begins at 5:00 p.m.
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Public school systems have historically separated the roles of teachers and formal leaders. Teachers typically have few substantive opportunities to exert leadership while principals and superintendents are not expected to know how to teach well. While this is now changing, this dichotomy of roles is still widely followed and serves as a significant barrier to school reform efforts.
Anthony Alvarado is a nationally recognized school reform pioneer with over 30 years of experience as a teacher, principal, superintendent, and chancellor. Alvarado is known for his emphasis on instructional improvement as a central goal of school reform. Prior to coming to Stanford in 2007, Alvarado served as chancellor of instruction for San Diego City Schools, where he designed a comprehensive instructional improvement system and established the Educational Leadership Development Academy, an innovative and integrated leadership development model. Previously, Alvarado served as superintendent of Community School District Two in New York City, where he created and implemented a district-wide professional development program that generated extraordinary student gains. He created a national model for public school choice as superintendent of the East Harlem’s Community School District Four and, as Chancellor of New York City Public Schools, instituted full-day kindergarten.
Linda Darling-Hammond launched the Stanford Educational Leadership Institute and the School Redesign Network and has served as faculty sponsor for the Stanford Teacher Education Program. Prior to Stanford, Darling-Hammond was the William F. Russell Professor in the Foundations of Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. There, she was the founding Executive Director of the National Commission for Teaching and America's Future, the blue-ribbon panel whose 1996 report What Matters Most: Teaching for America’s Future, catalyzed major policy changes across the United States to improve the quality of teacher education and teaching. She is a former president of the American Educational Research Association and member of the National Academy of Education. Her research, teaching, and policy work focus on issues of school restructuring, teacher quality, and educational equity. Last year, Darling-Hammond was named one of the ten most influential people in the field of education over the last decade by Editorial Projects in Education Research Center, a program of Education Week.
Free and open to the public.
For more information, please call (650) 723-9250
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