Urban Leadership Academy (ULA)
Achieving educational equity remains a persistent challenge for Minnesota schools and communities. In many cases, the disparities in academic achievement are widening between racial and class groups. The Urban Leadership Academy (ULA) is committed to altering these patterns of inequity in schools through the vantage point of school leadership. ULA engages Pre-K-12 school leaders in critical dialogue around research and praxis for school improvement.
2009-2010 Schedule
October 20, 2009
Academic English Mastery: Implementing a Program for
Standard English Learners
Noma LeMoine, Ph.D.,
LeMoine & Associates Educational Consulting,
Los Angeles, CA
8:30 am - 3:00 pm,
Maplewood Community Center, 2100 White Bear Ave N,
Maplewood, MN 55109
Partner District
Registration |
Non-Partner District Registration
More about this workshop: Workshop information (PDF
flier)
December 16, 2009
Personal Learning for Professional Development:
Understanding and Overcoming the "Immunity to Change"
Robert Kegan, Ph.D., Harvard University Graduate School of
Education Chair, Institute for Management and Leadership in Education,
Co-director of Change Leadership
8:30 am - 3:00 pm,
Continuing Education Conference Center, 1890 Buford Ave, St Paul, MN 55108
Partner District
Registration | Non-Partner
District Registration
More about this workshop: Workshop information (PDF flier)
January 11, 2010
Do You Talk Your Walk?: Communicating for Diversity
Felecia Briscoe, Ph.D., University of Texas at San Antonio
Associate Professor, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies
8:30 am - 3:00 pm,
Wilder
Center, 451 Lexington Parkway N, St Paul, MN 55104
Partner District
Registration | Non-Partner
District Registration
February 24, 2010
Race is Not Neutral: Understanding and
Addressing Disproportionality in School Discipline
Russell
Skiba, Ph.D., University of Indiana, Professor in Counseling and Educational
Psychology, Director of the Equity Project at Indiana University
Shana Ritter, Program Coordinator of the Equity Project at Indiana University
8:30 am - 3:00 pm,
Continuing Education Conference Center, 1890 Buford Ave, St Paul, MN 55108
Partner District
Registration | Non-Partner
District Registration
ULA workshops are targeted toward superintendents, principals, assistant principals, teacher leaders, and other district and school leadership personnel. Participants expand their leadership knowledge and skills through:
- Access to national and local scholars and educational policy decision-makers.
- Interactive discussion of current and future trends impacting school leadership.
- Activities that provide strategies for critical analysis, reflection, creative problem solving, and policy. development related to school leadership and management.
- Networking with colleagues.
Continuing Education Units (CEUs): Pre-approved administrative and teacher CEUs are available to participants.
The ULA Advisory Council is composed of partnership school district leadership staff, including associate superintendents, principals and teacher leaders. It also includes representative faculty and leadership staff from the Department of Educational Policy and Administration. The Advisory Council assists in the selection of ULA program content relevant to school leadership. For more information on the ULA partnership school districts, and the members of the Advisory Council, please click here.
For additional information about ULA: please contact Vanessa Abanu at 612-626-5123 or steel012@umn.edu.
"ULA continues to provide optimum professional development opportunities. This is a great program - very worthwhile, very well-paced, very energizing, and readily applicable to what we’re doing as educators."
-Richard Skinner
principal, Mounds View Public Schools
"ULA offers opportunities to impact each participant's will, skill, knowledge, and capacity relevant to equity leadership. In addition, each interaction creates a learning community with other educators, which strengthens this purposeful and useful pedagogical experience."
-Joyce Bell
assistant principal, Minneapolis Public Schools
"ULA's urban framework is important. We're a first-ring suburb, and we're facing many of the same challenges as urban schools. ULA brings together a nice blend of research and practice in an on-going dialog, not a one-shot deal. We can learn from others."
-Ellen Delaney
associate principal, Spring Lake Park Schools
"ULA provides the highest quality professional development for building administrators. Sessions and speakers on current educational topics and issues enabled me to continue to develop as a leader plus I was able to interact with other metropolitan principals around out demanding work."
-Gloria Kumagai
retired principal, Saint Paul Public School