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2009 Leadership Summit Dynamic Leadership for Sustaining Excellence:
A Focus on Implementation September 22-23, 2009

Thank you to all who participated in the Leadership Summit! Below are materials and resources presented at the Summit.

Day 1 Plenary: Felicia Adams

Adams Presentation [11MB PDF]

Day 2 Keynote Speaker: Dr. Carl Glickman

Glickman presentation [2.9MB PDF]

Glickman article [188kB PDF]

Data Analysis Session

Data presentation [428kB PDF]

Direct questions about the CD-ROM or the printed data graphs to Angie.Durand@times.uh.edu.

Breakout Sessions

  1. Enhancing Instructional Leadership: Aligning Programs [1MB PDF], Anneta Buenger
  2. Response to Intervention (RTI) [3.6MB PDF], Petra Brittner
  3. Enhancing Instructional Leadership: Promoting and Supporting a Reading Culture [1MB PDF], Marla Hunt and Joanna Taylor
  4. Making Coaching Pay Off: Breaking the Implementation Barriers [156kB PDF], Dr. Bruce Joyce
  5. Making Professional Development Approaches Work [188kB PDF], Dr. Bruce Joyce
  6. Enhancing Instructional Leadership: Leading Schoolwide Change [804kB PDF], Nina Gonzalez Lillian and Marsha Loyd
  7. Blueprints for Success: Facilitating Instructional Excellence [1.4MB PDF], Dr. Saro Mohammed
  8. Culturally Responsive Literacy Instruction: What Leaders Need to Know [248kB PDF], Dr. Sarah Nelson
  9. Implementation of New English and Spanish Language Arts and Reading TEKS for Administrators [4.9MB PDF], Dr. Waynel Sexton and Twyla Vogler
  10. Cultivating Effective Leadership: Valuing the Work Teachers Do [9.9MB PDF], Dr. Thea Woodruff

Leaders to Leaders

  1. United Independent School District (ISD): Putting Reading First [8.2MB PDF]
  2. Houston ISD: Increasing Student Achievement Through Targeted Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment [7.8MB PDF]
  3. Cromack Elementary, Brownsville ISD: Reading Success Through Collaborative Effort [7.8MB PDF]
  4. Dallas ISD: Strong Focus Leads to Large Gains in Dallas ISD [7.5MB PDF]
  5. Socorro ISD: Sustaining Reading First in Socorro: A New Era of Excellence [8.1MB PDF]
  6. Highland Elementary, Highland ISD: “Rocky Road” Is Not Just a Name for Ice Cream: Journey to Exemplary Through the 3-Tier Model [7.9MB PDF]
  7. Driscoll Elementary, Driscoll ISD: A Cinderella Story [8.9MB PDF]
  8. Port Houston Elementary, Houston ISD: Building Learning Communities Focused on the Reading First 3-Tier Model: An Elementary School’s Journey [15.9MB PDF]
  9. La Vega Elementary, La Vega ISD: From Acceptable to Exemplary Using the 3-Tier Model [7.5MB PDF]
  10. Hughes Springs Elementary, Hughes Springs ISD:A Reading First Success Story [7.6MB PDF]

Again, thank you for tremendous efforts to improve success in Reading!

Texas Reading First Partnership

Please direct any inquiries to Dr. Candice Knight at candiceknight@mail.utexas.edu.

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