The Office of School Partnerships
Boston Public Schools Leadership Development Network
This network of leadership teams from several Boston Public Schools continues to build on the work of the Boston Public Schools Leadership Development Network, a larger multi year collaboration of HGSE and BPS that was funded for five initial years beginning in 1997 by FleetBoston Financial.
When the LDN ended most of its programs, four of the schools requested to continue to network and come to Harvard for a series of professional development sessions facilitated by faculty from HGSE and other education experts. The group has now grown to seven schools and meets several times a year.
Workshops focus on organizational change, adult development, curriculum and instruction, and other research topics relevant to the priorities of the schools and the BPS district. All sessions are held 8:30 to 12:30 in the Eliot Lyman Room, second floor, Longfellow Hall on Appian Way at HGSE in Cambridge.
Please call 617-496-4822 for more information on registering to attend these sessions or for learning how your BPS school can join the Leadership Development Network .
Participating schools include:
- Pauline A. Shaw Elementary School, Maudlin Wright, Principal
- Henry Dearborn Middle School, Carroll Blake, Principal
- Curley K-8 School, (Lower) Mirna Vega-Wilson and (Upper) Jeffrey Slater, Co-Principals
- Muriel S. Snowden International School, Gloria Coulter, Headmaster
- Mather Elementary School, Emily Cox, Principal
- Paul A. Dever Elementary School, Vivian Swoboda, Principal
- Nathan Hale Elementary School, Sandra Mitchell-Woods, Principal
Professional Development Network Sessions for 2008-2009:
- Saturday, October 18, 2008
Christopher Dede, Timothy E. Wirth Professor in Learning Technologies, Harvard Graduate School of Education - Saturday, November 15, 2008
Janice Ellen Jackson, Lecturer on Education, Senior Associate for the Executive Leadership Program for Educators (ExEL) at Harvard University - Saturday, January 10, 2008
Richard Elmore, Anrig Professor of Educational Leadership, Director of the Consortium for Policy Research in Education, Leadership courses on Supporting Teachers for Instructional Improvement - Saturday, February 7, 2009
Karen L. Mapp, Lecturer on Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education - Saturday, March 7, 2009
Deborah Jewell-Sherman, Senior Lecturer on Education and Co-Director of the Urban Superintendents' Program, Harvard Graduate School of Education - Saturday, April 4, 2009
Lee Teitel, Lecturer on Education, Director of the Executive Leadership Program for Educators (ExEL) at Harvard University - Saturday, May 16, 2009
(tentative date for snow rescheduling)
Professional Development Network Sessions for previous years included:
Sessions for 2007-2008:
- Saturday, October 20, 2007
John Diamond, Assistant Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) - Saturday, November 17, 2007
Elizabeth City, Director of Instructional Strategy for the Executive Leadership for Educational Excellence project at HGSE - Saturday, January 12, 2008
Dan Kindlon, Lecturer on Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, HGSE - Saturday, February 9, 2008
Ronald F. Ferguson, Lecturer in Public Policy at Kennedy School, Faculty Cochair and Director of the Achievement Gap Initiative, Harvard University - Saturday, March 8, 2008
Catherine Snow, the Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education - Saturday, April 5, 2008
Mica Pollock, Associate Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Sessions for 2006-2007:
- Saturday October 28, 2006
Thomas Hehir, Professor of Practice, Director of School Leadership Program
Harvard Graduate School of Education - Saturday, January 20, 2007
Kurt Fischer, Bigelow Professor of Education, HGSE
Director, Mind, Brain, and Education Program - Saturday, February 10, 2007
Susan Moore Johnson, Pforzheimer Professor of Teaching and Learning, HGSE
Director, The Project on the Next Generation of Teachers - Saturday, March 10, 2007
Robert L. Selman, Roy Edward Larsen Professor of Education and Human Development
Professor of Psychology, Psychiatry Dept., Harvard Medical School - Saturday, April 28, 2007
Nonie K. Lesaux, Assistant Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education - Saturday, May 19, 2007
Charles V. Willie, Charles William Eliot Professor of Education, Emeritus, HGSE
Sessions for 2005-2006:
- January 21, 2006
Richard Elmore, Gregory R. Anrig Professor of Educational Leadership
Harvard Graduate School of Education - Saturday, February 11, 2006
Katherine Merseth, Senior Lecturer on Education, Director of the Teacher Education Program
Harvard Graduate School of Education - Saturday, March 25, 2006
James P. Honan, Senior Lecturer on Education
Harvard Graduate School of Education - Saturday, May 13, 2006
Ethan Mintz, Project Director, High School Survey of Student Engagement
Adjunct Faculty in the School of Education, Indiana University at Bloomington
Former Lead Consultant, BPS Partnership in Data Analysis
Sessions for 2004-2005:
- Saturday, October 30, 2004
Ethan Mintz, HGSE Lead Consultant, BPS Cluster 2 Partnership in Assessment Data Analysis - Saturday, January 29, 2005
Eleanor Drago-Severson, Lecturer on Education, HGSE - Tuesday, April 5, 2005
Catherine Snow, LDN Network participation withHGSE/BPS Bank of America (Fleet) Forum session - Saturday, April 30, 2005
Michael Nakkula, Lecturer on Education, HGSE
Sessions for 2003-2004:
- Thursday, September 18, 2003
Network Planning Discussion and Celebration for Peggy Kemp, former director, Office of School Partnerships, LDN. - Wednesday, March 31, 2004
Susan Moore Johnson, LDN Network participation withHGSE/BPS Fleet Forum sessio - Wednesday, April 14, 2004
Ethan Mintz, Lead Consultant, BPS Cluster 2 Partnership in Assessment Data Analysis
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Note: Previous work of the Boston Public Schools Leadership Development Network included ongoing professional development sessions and the Forum Lecture Series. Links to archived information can be found at the bottom of this page.
The BANK of AMERICA Forum Lecture Series
The BANK of AMERICA Forum Lecture 2005, formerly Fleet Forum, was an invaluable tool for administrators, faculty, staff, parents and community collaborators from across school systems. These lectures connected the broader Boston community to Harvard's resources. The Forum seeks to provide a platform for the BPS to address some of the major issues involved in comprehensive school reform.
The Forum continued one important strand of the Boston Public Schools Leadership Development Network, a 6 year professional development and technical assistance collaboration of the Boston Public Schools and the Harvard Graduate School of Education which was also funded by FleetBoston Financial Foundation, now Bank of America.
Past forum topics have covered such issues as Closing the Achievement Gap, Accountability and Instructional Improvement, and How to Create Conditions in Schools that Foster Student Achievement. Past presenters have included the Harvard Graduate School of Education Professors Catherine Snow, Susan Moore Johnson, Richard Elmore and Pedro Noguera, and other nationally known experts such as Ellin Keene, Ernesto Cortes, Jr. and Uri Treisman.
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Additional archived information provided below is on previous LDN work.
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- Boston Public Schools Leadership Development Network
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