Leadership Summit Orientation

Slide 1: Independent Schools Dyslexia Leadership Summit Sponsored by The Carroll School If one leader can make a difference, imagine what a community of leaders can do. June 24-27, 20 0 8

Slide 2: Why we’re here: To blaze new trails

Slide 3: How we got here: Stepping stones • Seminars: For Heads/Lead Administrators Independent LD Schools/IDA (19??- 2008) • Sherman/NG Think Tank (2004) • Oremus/IDA Perspectives (2005) • TDF/Brain Symposium, Brazil (2007) • Decades of “Bull Sessions” @ Network & IDA conferences

Slide 4: Who we are: 25 proven & promising leaders • 9 Schools in 8 States: MA, PA, MN, RI, NC, OH, NJ, MD • Heads/EDS of: Carroll, DVF, Groves, Hamilton @ Wheeler, Hill Center, Lawrence, Marburn, NG, Siena • Plus……Jemicy, Proctor, Greenwood, Chartwell, Landmark, Assets, St. G’s Summer, Purnell, Hamilton Wenham Reg. HS, others.

Slide 5: Who we are: Educational leaders • Leadership Roles: 19 schools • Founding/Leadership Roles: 3 nonprofits (The Learning Disabilities Network, The Dunn Institute, Victory Schools) • 10 w/ Public Ed. backgrounds (charter schools)

Slide 6: Who we are: Experts! • Various Hats: Teachers, diagnosticians, teacher trainers, curric. writers, consultants, authors, Heads/EDs, board members/officers of other schools & nonprofits • Many Programs: OG, Wilson, Project Read, LETRS, etc. • Experience: Decades and decades!

Slide 7: Who we are: Well credentialed • Certifications: Tons! • Advanced Degrees: 13 masters & 3 doctorates • HGSE: 7 of 9 heads • Other Harvard: 1 Harvard MBA, 1 former Harvard Med. School faculty, 1 member Harvard Principals’ Center Advisory Board

Slide 8: Who we are: Pre-K --> Higher Ed. Educators • Pre, Elementary, Middle, High School • Faculty, Instructors, Adjunct Instructors: John’s Hopkins, Lesley, BC, BU, UNC Chapel Hill, N. Carolina Central U., Duke, Free University Amsterdam, Harvard Medical School

Slide 9: Who we are: Passionate movers & shakers • Much in common . . . e.g. shared goals about kids who learn differently, IDA, etc • But also traveled various paths . . . e.g., neuroscientist, finance guy, poet, pharmacist

Slide 10: Soooo we are . . . a pretty accomplished group!

Slide 11: . . . with a shared vision of possibilities & pathways

Slide 12: We know a lot about . . . Children who learn differently, especially children w/ dyslexia

Slide 13: We know a lot about . . . Designing & managing educational environments to help these children become capable academic learners

Slide 14: . . . we are the reading experts! We put reading first long before it became a national initiative & education policy tagline

Slide 15: What we do: Open doors & transform lives • Of children in our schools • Of children outside our schools . . .

Slide 16: What we also do: Improve general & public education • Below Radar: Independent LD schools & our people have been secret catalysts for change in public education for decades • As pioneers, innovators, laboratories, models, stewards, disseminators, advocates, even as public school competitors, we have stimulated CHANGE!

Slide 17: What we’ll do here: Blaze trails . . . using these navigational tools • School Presentations from schools’ lead participants (some team, some solo) • Outside Speaker Presentations • Task Forces

Slide 18: What we’ll do here: Tuesday Wednesday 9:00-10:00 Jay Goulart 8:30-9:30 Jon Green 10:15-11:15 Earl Oremus 9:30-10:30 Erik Heyer 11:15-12:15 Shary Maskel 10:45 12:15 Alan November 1:30-2:30 Lou Salza 1:15-2:45 Alan Cont. 2:30-3:05 Glenn Rosen 2:45-3:30 Task Forces 3:15-4:00 Task Forces 4:45 Fenway Tour! 4:00-5:00 John Alexander 7:05 Red Sox Game!

Slide 19: What else we’ll do: Thursday Friday 8:30-10:30 Task Forces 8:45-9:45 Elena Grigorenko 10:4-11:45 Katherine Schantz 9:45-10:00 Discussion 11:45-12:45 George Stiny 10:15-12:15 Task Force 1:45-2:45 Kurt Fischer Presentations! 2:45-3:45 Gordon Sherman 12:15-12:30 Closing Remarks 3:15-4:00 Steve Wilkins

Slide 20: Task Forces: Not our Past (7) Task Force A: Educating Children for their Future, Ryan Masa (Facilitator), John Alexander, Deanna Bartlett, Vanessa Diffenbacher, Earl Oremus, Katherine Schantz, Gordon Sherman Task Force B: Rethinking Disability/Talent Paradigms & Purpose of Learning (7) Erik Heyer (Facilitator), Kathy Boone, Jon Green, Kyle Harrington, Maura Rogers, Joyce Walker, Steve Wilkins Task Force C: Building Researcher-Educator Bridges (9) Allison West (Facilitator), Jeannette Epstein, Mark Harris, Bill Keeney, Dee Ledet-Rosenberg, Shary Maskel, Lou Salza, Wendy Speir, Jenny Thomson

Slide 21: Task Force Times Breakfasts: 7:45-8:30 Some lunch & break time PLUS 3.5 scheduled time Tuesday: Wednesday: Thursday: 3:15-4:00 2:45-3:30/45ish 8:30-10:30 Friday Presentations:10:15-12:15 (About 30 minutes including Q &A)

Slide 22: A word about time . . .

Slide 23: My work here is done, well . . . almost.

Slide 24: A beautiful run

Slide 25: Not so pretty

Slide 26: Inspired Wired Tired

Slide 27: Not this kind of tired.

Slide 28: The tired that comes from Stretching minds, heavy cognitive lifting, and pushing through.

Slide 29: Tomorrow night.