8:00 a.m. Registration and Coffee
8:30 a.m. "Welcome"
Arthur K. Smith
UH System Chancellor and UH President
8:40 a.m. "The Board's
Priorities"
Eduardo Aguirre
Member, UH System Board of Regents
8:50 a.m. "District Priorities
for Partnerships"
Susan Sclafani
Chief of Staff for Educational Services, Houston Independent School District
9:05 a.m. "A
Commitment to Partnerships"
Elaine M. Charlson
UH System Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and
UH Associate Vice President for Academic and Faculty Affairs
9:20 a.m. "The Federal
Perspective"
Edward J. Fuentes
Director, GEAR UP
U.S. Department of Education
9:50 a.m. Break
10:00 a.m. "Research and
Education: Bridging the Gap"
Richard A. Tapia
Noah Harding Professor of Computational and Applied Mathematics
Rice University
10:30 a.m. "Questions
& Answers"
All morning speakers to participate
11:15 a.m. Lunch
12:45 p.m. "Improving
the Reliability of Schools, School Districts, and School Reform Designs:
The First Educational Challenge of the 21st Century"
Samuel C. Stringfield
Principal Research Scientist, Center for the Social Organization of Schools
Johns Hopkins University
1:15 p.m. "High
Standards for Safe, Caring and Healthy Learning Environments"
H. Jerome Freiberg
John and Rebecca Moores Scholar and Professor, Curriculum and Instruction,
University of Houston
Director, Consistency Management and Cooperative Discipline Project
1:45 p.m. "The Yale-New
Haven Teachers Institute and the Evolution of Its National Initiatives"
James R. Vivian
Director, Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute
2:15 p.m. Break-Out Sessions
"Distance Learning to Virtual Schools"
Susan Sclafani, Chief of Staff for Educational Services, HISD
Richard Alo, Professor, Computer and Mathematical Science, UH-Downtown,
and
Director, Center for Computational Science and Advanced Distributed Simulation
Erin Mayer, Director of Technology, UH-Downtown
Sandy Frieden, Executive Director of UH System Distance Education/CampusNet
and UH Distance Education
"Preventing School Violence"
Carol Steady, Ann Jenison, Anna Lachin and Carolyn Hawkins
Facilitators, Consistency Management and Cooperative Discipline
"Starting School - University Partnerships"
Gwendolyn Samples, Coordinator, Community Partnerships, HISD
Carol Hoey, Director of Development, Spring Branch ISD
Audean Allman, Associate Dean, College of Education, Texas Southern University
Doris Robins, Principal, TSU-HISD Lab School
"Successful UH Partnership Programs"
W. Robert Houston, Professor of Curriculum and Instruction/Teacher Education,
UH, and
Executive Director of the Institute for Urban Study
Marcia R. Sanderson, Director of Community Projects and Instructor of Social
Work, UH
Jerald W. Strickland, Dean, College of Optometry, UH
"Yale/New Haven - Houston Teachers Institutes"
James R. Vivian, Director of the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute
Paul Cooke, Director of the Houston Teachers Institute
Richard Murray, Professor of Political Science, UH
Cynthia Freeland, Associate Professor of Philosophy, UH
Joy Teague, Teacher, Grady Middle School, HISD
William Pisciella, Teacher, Booker T. Washington High School, HISD
"What Foundations Look for in Partnership Proposals"
George Grainger, Grant Officer, Houston Endowment
3:00 p.m. Break-Out Sessions
"Effective Partnerships for Student Growth"
F. Richard Olenchak, Professor of Curriculum and Instruction/Gifted &
Talented Education, UH
Ronique G. Wilson, Director of School-University Partnerships, Institute
for Urban Education, UH
"Using Technology in Partnerships for Teacher Development"
Marshall Schott, Associate Director of UH Distance Education
Bernard Robin, Assistant Professor of Curriculum and Instruction, UH
Sara McNeil, Assistant Professor of Curriculum and Instruction, UH
Melissa Pierson, Assistant Professor of Curriculum and Instruction, UH
Karen Soehnge, Executive Director for Planning, Development and Accountability,
Katy ISD
"Effective Partnerships for School Leadership"
Richard L. Hooker, Chair and Associate Professor of Educational Leadership
and Cultural Studies, UH
Sharon Koonce, Manager, Leadership Academy, HISD
Alicia Moreno, Principal Intern, HISD
Elliott Moss, Principal Intern, HISD
"How Universities Can Be a Knowledge Content Resource"
Gabriel Vasquez, Associate Professor of Communication, UH, and Member,
HISD School Board
"Strategies for School Safety"
Bruce Marquis, HISD Police Chief
John LeNoir, U.S. Attorney's Office
Byran Clements, Director of Security, Galena Park ISD
"Urban Systemic Initiative"
John Hardy, Associate Dean, College of Natural Sciences & Mathematics,
UH
Larry Spears, Professor of Chemistry, Department of Natural Sciences, UH-Downtown
Nanda Kirkpatrick, Director, PreCollege Science Education Program, Rice
University
Charlotte Haynes, Project Director HU-LINC, HISD
Carolyn Sumners, Museum of Natural Science
3:45 p.m. Break
4:00 p.m. "Why Partnerships
are Critical to Students' Success"
Rod Paige
Superintendent of Schools, Houston Independent School District
4:30 p.m. Conference Adjourns
Eduardo Aguirre, Jr. is serving a six-year term on the UH System Board of Regents. He is Division Executive, International Banking Division, of the Bank of America. A naturalized American citizen, Cuban-born Aguirre was appointed by President George H. W. Bush to the National Commission for Employment Policy, and serves on numerous boards, including the Association for the Advancement of Mexican Americans. Named by Hispanic Magazine as one of the nation's 100 most influential Hispanics for three consecutive years, he holds a Bachelor's degree from Louisiana State University, is a graduate of the National Commercial School at the University of Oklahoma, and is a Senior Fellow at the University of Virginia's Center for International Banking Studies. Mr. Aguirre has received an honorary doctorate from the Universidad Tecnológica de Santiago in the Dominican Republic and honorary professorships from the National University of Nationalities and the Beijing Polytechnic University in the People's Republic of China.Speakers and Presenters
H. Jerome Freiberg is a John and Rebecca Moores University Scholar and Professor of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Houston. As Director and Founder of the Consistency Management and Cooperative Discipline (CMCD) Project, he heads a highly successful prevention system for discipline problems and instructional/management reform model for pre-K to 12. He is Editor of the Journal of Classroom Interaction and has had published over 100 scholarly works. Two previous books include, Universal Teaching Strategies and the revised 3rd edition of Freedom to Learn, by the psychologists Carl Rogers (1994). He also has published three books in 1999 including School Climate: Measuring, Improving and Sustaining Healthy Environments, with Falmer Press, Beyond Behaviorism: Changing the Classroom Management Paradigm with Allen & Bacon, and Behaving and Becoming: Lessons Learned with ASCD. He just returned from the World Congress in Psychotherapie in Vienna, Austria where he was a keynote speaker. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Education from Temple University and a Doctor of Education from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Edward J. Fuentes directs the Office
of Postsecondary Education’s GEAR UP program (Gaining Early Awareness and
Readiness for Undergraduate Programs). GEAR UP supports early college
preparation and awareness activities at the local and State level.
Immediately prior to this appointment, he was the Office of Educational
Research and Improvement’s Director of the National Institute on the Education
of At-Risk Students as well as the Acting Director of the National Institute
on Educational Governance, Finance, Policymaking and Management.
He has also served as: a Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary for
Educational Research and Improvement; a Senior Associate to the executive
staff of the National Education Goals Panel; Director of Research and Evaluation
for the U.S. Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Languages Affairs;
an Education Research Analyst for the Department of Education's Office
of Planning, Budget and Evaluation; a Research Psychologist with the U.S.
Army Research Institute; and, a Senior Research Associate with the National
Institute of Education. Prior to government service, Dr. Fuentes
worked as an Education Research Psychologist with the Research Triangle
Institute of Durham, North Carolina and as both a classroom teacher and
school psychologist for the Los Angeles Unified School District.
Over the course of his career, he also has served as adjunct faculty at
a number of colleges and universities and has consulted with national education
associations, school districts, and state departments of education.
Dr. Fuentes holds a Ph.D. in educational psychology from Stanford University,
an M.S. in education and a B.A. in psychology from California State University,
Los Angeles and elementary education and pupil personnel services credentials
from the State of California.
Rod
Paige, the Superintendent of Schools of the Houston Independent
School District, has always been committed to public education and the
preparation of teachers to excel in their profession. He served for
a decade as Dean of the College of Education at Texas Southern University.
He also established the university's Center for Excellence in Urban Education,
a research facility that concentrates on issues related to instruction
and management in urban school systems. As a trustee and an officer
of the HISD Board of Education from 1984 to 1994, Dr. Paige co-authored
the board's Declaration of Beliefs and Visions, a statement of purpose
and goals for the district that called for school reform through decentralization,
a focus on instruction, accountability at all levels, and development of
a core curriculum. Dr. Paige created the PEER (Peer Examination,
Evaluation, and Redesign) Program, which invites suggestions from business
and community professionals on ways to strengthen HISD schools' support
services and programs. Dr. Page earned his Bachelor's degree from
Jackson State University in Mississippi and his Master's and Doctorate
from Indiana University.
Susan Sclafani is the Chief of Staff for Educational Services in the Houston Independent School District. In that position, she represents the Superintendent on educational issues and coordinates activities of the departments directly involved in the education of children, including School Administration, Educational Programs, Legal Services, Community and Public Relations, Reading and the Superintendent's Office. In addition, she supervises the Departments of Research and Accountability, and District Development. Her previous position was Associate Superintendent for District Administration, where she coordinated districtwide initiatives and collaborative programs with universities and individual schools, and monitored progress on initiatives in key departments for the Superintendent of Schools. Dr. Sclafani received her A.B. degree from Vassar College, an M.A. in Germanic Languages and Literature from the University of Chicago, and a M.Ed. and Ph.D. in Educational Administration from the University of Texas at Austin. She is also a charter member of Superintendents Prepared, an initiative to identify and train the next generation of urban superintendents.
Arthur K. Smith holds the dual titles of Chancellor of the University of Houston System and President of the University of Houston. He oversees a system composed of four universities, some 49,000 students, 3,000 faculty, and 3,000 staff. Prior to coming to the UH System in 1997, he served as president of the University of Utah. He has also served as Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs at the University of South Carolina and Vice President for Administration at the State University of New York-Binghamton. Smith is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy. He received a master's degree from the University of New Hampshire and a Ph.D. in government from Cornell University focusing on Latin American studies and international politics and law.
Samuel C. Stringfield is Principal Research Scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Center for the Social Organization of Schools (CSOS). He also serves a Co-Director of the Systemic and Policy Studies section of the Center for Research on Education of Students Placed at Risk (CRESPAR) and Co-Director of the Program on Integrated Reform at the University of California at Santa Cruz' Center for Research on Education, Diversity, and Excellence (CREDE). He has authored over 90 articles, chapters, and books. His two most recent projects concern designs for improving programs within schools (The Special Strategies Studies, Stringfield et al., 1997) and for improving whole schools (Bold Plans for School restructuring: The New American School Designs, Stringfield, Ross, and Smith, 1996). Stringfield is a member of the Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners. His Bachelor's in Psychology and Masters of Arts in Teaching degrees are from the University of North Carolina, and he holds a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from Temple University.
Richard A. Tapia is the Noah Harding Professor of Computational and Applied Mathematics at Rice University. He is also Director of Education and Human Resources in the Center for Research and Parallel Computation and Associate Director of Graduate Studies in the Office of the Vice Provost for Research and Graduate Studies, both at Rice. His research is primarily in the area of computational optimization theory. Tapia is actively involved in educational issues and outreach programs related to underrepresented minorities in science, engineering, and mathematics. He holds a B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of California at Los Angeles, and has been honored with numerous awards, including the National Science Foundation's Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring. Dr. Tapia was the first native born Hispanic to be inducted into the National Academy of Engineering. Internationally known for his research and work in the computational and mathematical sciences, he was appointed by President William H.ˆ Clinton to the National Science Board in 1996.
James R. Vivian is director of the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute, a joint effort of Yale University and the New Haven Public Schools to improve teaching and learning in the local public schools and, by example, in schools across the country. A leading educator in the area of collaborative programs between schools and universities, Mr. Vivian has been director of the Institute since he helped to found the program in 1978. Recognized nationally as a model of university-school collaboration, the Institute focuses on strengthening teaching of the humanities and the sciences in the schools. He is director and past chairman of the board of directors, U.S. Grant Foundation, a program founded in 1954 through which Yale students teach minority and low income New Haven public school student in small classes throughout the year. As a Yale undergraduate, Mr. Vivian himself was such a teacher and was student director of the U.S. Grant program. He is past president of the Connecticut Committee of the National Coordinating Committee for the Promotion of History; and past chairman of the Historic District Commission, Town of Clinton, Connecticut. He received his B.A. degree in 1968, his M.A. degree in 1974 and his Master of Philosophy degree in 1975, all from Yale.
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2:15 p.m. Break-Out Sessions
"Distance Learning to Virtual Schools "
"What Foundation Look for in Proposals"
"Starting Partnerships"
"Successful UH Partnership Programs"
"Preventing School Violence "
"Teachers Institutes"
3:00 p.m. Break-Out Sessions
"Student Growth"
"Teacher Development"
"School Leadership"
"Knowledge Content Resource"
"Strategies for School Safety"
"Urban Systemic Initiative "