NNER Conference 2009
L4L students and faculty participated in the 2009 National Network for Educational Renewal conference. They presented a session submitted by Margery Ginsberg titled “Rigor without Mortis: Enhancing Professional Learning Through the Intrinsic Motivation of Faculty and Students.”
Math & Science Grant Awarded
 Congratulations to Andrew Eyres and the University Place School District, recently awarded a competitive three-year federally funded Math/Science Partnership (MSP) grant. Andrew (Cohort 4) is UPSD's Excecutive Director of Teaching and Learning, and will be the new Co-Director of the Math: Getting It Project.
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L4L Student Named High School
Principal of the Year
 Congratulations to Aaron Leavell, L4L 4 student and principal of Bremerton High School. Aaron has been named Washington state’s 2009 High School Principal of the Year by the Association of Washington School Principals (AWSP).
L4L Summer Institute 2008:
First Summer for Cohort 4 & Final Summer for Cohort 3
 
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L4L Summer Institute 2007:
Examining the community to find ways to improve high schools
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Our Communities are in Crisis
 "...busing, controlled choice, and racial tiebreaking policies have accelerated the disparity of separate and unequal communities across the city. Our communities are now in crisis. How could we allow this to happen? How can we continue to allow it to happen?"
Bruce Bivins, L4L3 Click here to read this article in the
Journal of Educational Controversy
Research that Matters
Home Visits:
How Could I Not Have Known?
Ask students and they’ll often tell you the principal’s office is the place kids go when they’re in trouble. If their parents are called to the office, it is doubly bad. And if the principal — the enforcer, the bearer of ill news — goes to the students’ home, and asks to see their mother or father, it can signify the worst kind of trouble.
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L4L Summer Institute, July 2006
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Corbally Lecture Video
Click here to watch Beverly Tatum, President of Spelman College, speak on the psychology of racism.
"Learning Leadership Begins at Home"
 Read L4L 2 student Tony Byrd's reflections on his cohorts' visits to the homes of immigrant Seattle families last summer.
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"Learning to Listen through Home Visits with Somali, Mien, Cambodian, Vietnamese and Latino Families"
 L4L 2 student Betty Cobbs (pictured) and L4L program director Margery Ginsberg co-authored an article for the New Horizons for Learning website on the themes that emerged when L4L 2 students visited the homes of immigrant Seattle families last summer.
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 L4L Summer Institute, July 2005:
Creating Dialogues in a Diverse School Community
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 Seattle PI:
"No good way to interpret laying off translators"
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 L4L Graduate Leads "Outperforming" School District
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 Faculty Spotlight: Bradley Portin, Associate Professor, Leadership for Learning & Danforth Programs
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 An Interview with Monte Bridges, L4L's First Graduate
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Leadership for Learning Program: Preparing Visionary School Leaders
The Leadership for Learning 2 Cohort
The Leadership for Learning Program (L4L) seeks to prepare visionary, effective leaders for P-12 educational systems.
It gives leaders the skills they need to think creatively about pressing problems of practice. A key goal is to transform educational systems
to address and redress issues of equity and social justice, with an emphasis on instructional leadership.
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The next expected application deadline for L4L will be February 1, 2010
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