Please Download the application for the “Practitioner” Professional Learning Community here
applicationcli1pract.pdf
Please Download the application for the “Academic” Professional Learning Community here
application-cli.pdf
The brochure may be downloaded here
cli-brochure.pdf
THE CURRICULUM LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE BASIC ASSUMPTIONS:
• Universities and schools should work together as partners in enacting a sophisticated form of curriculum problem-solving.
• Changes in classroom practices, which result in “enhanced” student learning, take time and can be facilitated through multi-faceted “transformative” curriculum leadership activities.
• Effective curriculum problem solving programs are ongoing and systematic; they bring together a highly collaborative team of teacher leaders, administrative leaders, and other curriculum stakeholder leaders to undertake the following tasks: reconceptualize current subject matter standards, practice a multi-modal reflective inquiry, engage in integrated designing, planning, teaching, evaluating and organizing decision-making, create a local professional learning community, and build a public intellectual network [James G. Henderson & Rosemary Gornik Transformative Curriculum Leadership (3rd ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Merrill/Prentice Hall, 2007.]
• Undertaking this complex “ecological” school reform requires a very high standard for personal and professional development.
PILOT PHASE ACTIVITIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Participants in the pilot phase “Practitioner” Professional Learning Community (PLC) will meet every week on Thursdays in the Fall 2007 semester from 4:30-7:00 PM, in Merrill Hall Room #102. Participants will learn a sophisticated curriculum problem solving process, which will be integrated with supervised, locally relevant leadership activities enacted in the Spring 2008 semester. Spring 2008 semester class meeting times and locations will be mutually determined by the participants, fulfilling the mandatory contact hours for graduate credit. The course commitment, which will involve discussion board activities in an on-line environment, can be counted for graduate credit; however, participants who select this option will need to register and pay the tuition for one or two 3 semester hour graduate classes for each semester. The course number for the Fall 2007 and Spring 2008 courses are the same: (C&I 67095/77095 section 001).
• Participants in this pilot phase will need to purchase Transformative Curriculum Leadership (3rd ed.), and Understanding by Design (2nd ed.). These books will be central to all supervised leadership activities.
• Participants in this pilot phase will deliver a minimum of one presentation of their transformative curriculum leadership project at a highly visible, local setting, such as the building or district level.
• Participants in this pilot phase will recruit at least one educator who collaborated in their leadership project to participate in the Inaugural Curriculum Leadership Institute beginning in the summer of 2008, assuming continuing Jennings Foundation support.
• Participants in this pilot phase will write a narrative describing their leadership experiences in preparation for potential submission to a journal publication or an edited book.
• Participants will receive a $1,000 stipend upon completion of the expected activities.
