Urban Leadership Academy
Professional development for school leaders
The Urban Leadership Academy (ULA) is
a professional development program for new and experienced
school leaders. It is offered through a partnership between the
College of Education and Human Development’s Educator
Development and Research Center, the department of
Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development and
metro-area school districts including: Minneapolis, Mounds View,
Osseo, North St. Paul-Maplewood-Oakdale, Spring Lake Park, and
South Washington County. The
ULA Advisory Board plans and evaluates
programming. Program formats include:
- Topical workshop sequence: practical application of strategies and techniques.
- Topical courses: translating current research and theory into practice.
- Colloquia series: leading-edge content in a compressed format..
ULA Workshop Series 2011-2012
This year’s dynamic workshop series focuses on teaching, learning and leading for democracy. Workshops will feature insights from educational practitioners, reformers, policy advocates and researchers on managing school turn around, measuring and planning for equity, fostering culturally and linguistically relevant pedagogy and creating anti-oppressive education environments. See the workshops below and register online.
December 13, 2011
Landing the
Plane: A Powerful Approach to Turn Around Struggling Schools
Joseph Garcia, Strategy.Structure.Story, and
Janice Davis, Ph.D., The Davis Results Group, LLC
8:30 am - 2:00 pm,
Continuing Education
Conference Center, 1890 Buford
Ave., St. Paul, MN 55108
February 7, 2012
Beyond Equity Assessment: A Research Based Tool for
Equity Planning
Gail Sunderman, Ph.D.
George Washington University Center for Equity and Excellence in
Education and author of Holding NCLB Accountable Achieving
Accountability, Equity, & School Reform
8:30 am - 2:00 pm,
Continuing Education Conference Center, 1890 Buford
Ave., St. Paul, MN 55108
March 1, 2012
When the Complexity of Diversity Converges with
Traditional Learning Settings: Redefining Culturally and
Linguistically Responsive for Impactful Professional Development
Sharroky Hollie, Ph.D.
Center for Culturally Responsive Teaching and Learning and
California State University - Dominguez Hills
8:30 am - 2:00 pm, Continuing Education Conference Center, 1890 Buford Ave., St. Paul, MN 55108
Registration is now closed
May 1, 2012
Five Lenses for Anti-Oppressive Education
facilitated by Kevin Kumashiro, Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago and
J.B. Mayo Jr. , Ph.D., University of Minnesota
8:30 am - 2:00 pm,
Continuing Education
Conference Center, 1890 Buford
Ave., St. Paul, MN 55108
Time/Location: ULA workshops take place
from 8:30 am - 2:00 pm at the
Continuing Education Conference Center, University of
Minnesota, 1890 Buford Ave., St. Paul, MN.
A light breakfast and lunch are included.
Continuing Education Units (CEUs): Pre-approved administrative and teacher CEUs are available to participants.
More information: Call 612-625-5060 or email ula@umn.edu
Anticipated Outcomes
ULA workshops are targeted toward
PK-12 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.
For schedules of past ULA events, please click here.
For additional information about Urban Leadership Academy: Email: ula@umn.edu Ph: 612-625-5060 Website: http://z.umn.edu/ula
"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