ULA 2010-2011 Schedule
The ULA 2010-2011 workshops will provide another series of dynamic workshops for school leaders. This year we will focus on defining school leadership in the era of turnaround schools. Online registration will be open soon. If you don't already receive emails about ULA, please join our email list so that we can keep you updated on workshop details.
October 19, 2010
How Leaders Influence Instruction for Excellent &
Equitable Learning
Joseph Johnson, Ph.D.
8:30 am - 2:00 pm,
Continuing Education
Conference Center, 1890 Buford
Ave., St. Paul, MN 55108
More about this workshop: (PDF Flier)
November 30,2010
Deconstructing and Reframing Deficit
Thinking in Schools
Patricia Guerra, Ph.D. and Sarah Nelson, Ph.D., Texas State
University - San Marcos and co-founders of Transforming Schools
for a Multicultural Society
8:30 am - 2:00 pm,
Continuing Education Conference Center, 1890 Buford
Ave., St. Paul, MN 55108
More about this workshop: (PDF Flier)
January 20, 2011
Reshaping School Mathematics for the 21st Century
Cathy Seeley, Ph.D. and Lesa Covington Clarkson, Ph.D.
8:30 am - 2:00 pm, Continuing Education Conference Center, 1890 Buford Ave., St. Paul, MN 55108
More about this workshop:(PDF Flier)
April 13, 2011 - REGISTRATION IS CLOSED
School Culture,
Creating the Climate for Change
Anthony Muhammad, Ph.D.
8:30 am - 2:00 pm,
Continuing Education Conference Center, 1890
Buford Ave., St. Paul, MN 55108
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.
For schedules of past ULA events, 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