PAST CONFERENCES

Leading Constructive Public Engagement
January 2004
The Stanford Educational Leadership Institute (SELI) and the School Redesign Network jointly hosted a conference entitled "Leading Constructive Public Engagement" on the Stanford campus. Sixteen school district teams, including the Los Angeles Unified School District, were selected to participate in the event which addressed important issues in an often overlooked area of district leadership: the engagement of school district constituents and policymakers throughout the educational system.

The Coming of Age for Educational Leadership:
Transforming Schools for Effective Teaching and Learning
November, 2004
Sponsored by the Stanford Educational Leadership Institute and the Goldman Sachs Foundation, the "Coming of Age" conference included the following topics relevant to school redesign and reform:

Instructional Leadership for School Reform  
How can educational leaders foster quality instruction? What policies, practices, and professional development strategies are needed to enable administrators and teachers to address the needs of all students?

Fostering Organizational Learning
To promote student learning in the classroom, there needs to be a mechanism for organizational learning among teachers and administrators.   How can schools develop a culture of learning that stimulates ongoing inquiry and improvement?

Designing Schools to Support Student Achievement
What kinds of school and district structures support teachers and students in creating a positive and productive learning environment? What strategies can be used to build and redesign schools that are high-performing?

Building Leadership Capacity for Instructional Change
The training of new leaders versed in both organizational management and instruction is a crucial in ensuring that change agents are adequately equipped to address the complexities school redesign?   What is the best way to prepare educational leaders and what are the essential elements for such training programs?

Conference presenters included:

• Ms. Stephanie Bell-Rose, President, Goldman Sachs Foundation
• Dr. Bob Joss, Dean, Stanford Graduate School of Business
• Dr. Deborah Stipek, Dean, Stanford School of Education
• Dr. Linda Darling-Hammond, Professor, Stanford School of Education
• Dr. Jim Phills, Associate Professor, Stanford Graduate School of Business
• Dr. Ellen Moir, Executive Director, The New Teacher Center, UC Santa Cruz
• Dr. Hans Weiler, Professor of Education and of Political Science, Emeritus, Stanford University 
• Dr. Tony Bryk, Professor of Organizational Studies, Stanford School of Education & Graduate School of Business
• Dr. Stephen Davis, Associate Professor, Stanford School of Education
• Dr. Lisa Petrides, President, Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education
• Dr. Debra Meyerson, Associate Professor, School of Education
• Dr. Amy Gerstein, Executive Director, Noyce Foundation
• Mr. John Morgridge, Chairman Cisco Systems
• Dr. Ray Pecheone, Co-Director, School Redesign Network at Stanford
• Dr. Dan French, Executive Director, Center for Collaborative Education
• Dr. John Anderson, Former President, Current Vice Chair, New American Schools
• Dr. Rima Shore, Professor , Bank Street College of Education
• Dr. Laraine Roberts, Senior Researcher, WestEd
• Dr. Jason Wingard, Executive Director, Stanford Educational Leadership Institute

Developing Educational Entrepreneurship:  
Redesigning Schools for the 21st Century
October, 2002
Forces for higher standards, greater educational choice,  and more powerful learning for a more diverse student body are pressuring the U.S. educational system to change in fundamental ways. In this maelstrom of change, educational leaders are seeking knowledge about how to intelligently redesign the systems they've inherited, rather than merely manage them sub-optimally. What have we learned about creating high-performing organizations in business and education? What can we do to develop educational leaders who can draw on knowledge about teaching and learning as well as organizations and management practices that will build and sustain a new breed of schools to meet the needs of 21st-century America?

This symposium, sponsored by the Stanford University School of Education and the Graduate School of Business, examined recent innovations in school redesign such as the California School Redesign Network and explore how to create high-performing school organizations by integrating knowledge from the field of education with knowledge from the field of business and management. The symposium drew attention to the need for dramatically increasing the capacity of educational leaders for fundamental organizational change. The long-term efforts of the institute will be to nurture this capacity.

Bringing together a wide range of practitioners, policymakers, scholars, and philanthropists from business and education, this symposium explored how to integrate principles of effective leadership, entrepreneurship, and management with the principles of school redesign that produce educational equity and success.

PAST SEMINARS

In Schools We Trust
Deborah Meier, Co-Founder, Small Schools Movement, NYC
Video File, 11:52 minutes (RealPlayer® format)

Leading Visionary K-12 Educational Organizations
Dr. Jerry Porras,   Professor, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Tom VanderArk, Executive Director of Educational Programs, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Raising standardized test scores is a laudable goal, but if a school really wants to thrive in the long term, it needs to pay close attention to its values, argued speakers at a program discussing K-12 education. The October 2003 event was co-sponsored by the Stanford Educational Leadership Leadership Institute, a joint effort by the Graduate School of Business and the School of Education, and by the Stanford Social Innovation Review, a new publication from the Business School's Center for Social Innovation. [ Details ]
Video File, 35:55 minutes (RealPlayer® format)