2011-12 Webinar Series Features Great Principals, Starts Oct. 20

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Are the leaders of successful high-poverty and high-minority schools superheroes? If so, we can safely ignore them — after all, who really aspires to be Superman or Wonder Woman? Instead, maybe these principals know some things and do some things that the rest of us need to understand and emulate.

This fascinating series of six, one-hour webinars is made possible through generous support from the Wallace Foundation, allowing the Education Trust to offer it to the public at no charge. The free series starts Thursday, Oct. 20, 4 p.m., and continues through March 2012. It will focus on the crucial role school leaders play in making sure our most vulnerable children learn and excel. Each webinar will explore a tough question: How do you create a culture of high expectations? What does it really mean to be an instructional leader? How can you manage a building to ensure academic achievement? Over the course of these six webinars, attendees will hear ideas and strategies to become better leaders, not superheroes. Learn more and register now!

This series is based on a new book by Karin Chenoweth and Christina Theokas that studies the beliefs and practices of principals of high-poverty and high-minority schools that are rapidly improving or high achieving. The book, Getting It Done: Leading Academic Success in Unexpected Schools (Harvard Education Press, 2011), builds on the highly regarded work of Karin Chenoweth in It's Being Done: Academic Success in Unexpected Schools (voted one of the top education books of the decade by Education Next) and How It's Being Done: Urgent Lessons from Unexpected Schools. Each of the participating principals has led a school recognized by The Education Trust with its Dispelling the Myth award, which is given to high-achieving schools with large percentages of children of color or children who live in poverty.