Leadership New Hampshire Education Day

AGENDA - Education
March 18, 2010
Student Conservation Association
689 River Rd. Charlestown, NH
www.thesca.org

Stevens High School
175 Broad St
Claremont, NH
www.claremont.k12.nh.us

GOALS

·         Focus on public education in NH.
·         Give participants the chance to experience and discuss the current situation in a single
          New Hampshire school system
·         Gain a better understanding of how education is delivered in the state
·         Explore how the current system does or doesn't meet the needs of all students
·         Understand the personal responsibility of citizens to support education in NH

Student Conservation Association

8:00 AM Student Check-In
Continental Breakfast & Welcome

8:45 AM      Education in NH – Where Do We Stand Today?"
                 Tom Raffio, NH State Board of Education
                 Jackie Cowell, Executive Director Early Learning New Hampshire
                 www.earlylearningnh.org

9:45 AM Break

10:00 AM     "New Hampshire Higher Education"
                  Ed MacKay, Chancellor, University System of New Hampshire
                  www.usnh.edu

11:00 AM Transportation by Claremont School District bus to Stevens High School

Stevens High School

11:30 AM     Stevens High School Library
                 Welcome to Claremont—A little about the town
                 "Your Stevens High School Experience"
                 Jacqueline E. Guillette - Superintendent of SAU #6 Schools

Noon Lunch with select students

12:30 PM Stevens High School Classroom Visits
L. Paul Couture - Principal

1:30 PM      Debrief: school visit experience SHS Library
                 "No Child Left Behind & its Impact"
                 Jacqueline Guillette - Superintendent of SAU #6 Schools

2:30 PM      Leadership in Education: P through16 Initiative
                 Dr. Kathryn Dodge, Executive Director, NH Postsecondary Education Commission
                 www.nh.gov.postsecondary

3:30 PM      Wrap Up
                 Stevens High School Library
                 Summary, Evaluations, & Action Assignments

3:45 PM Return transportation by Claremont School District bus to SCA

4:00 PM Social Time at SCA

5:00 PM Adjourn

LNH Action Assignment - Education

For this month's Action Assignment, we are asking you to consider the goals for the session and explore the resources listed as well as others of your choosing. We will spend a portion of our Education Program Day at Stevens High School in Claremont, NH. You will be talking with students and a variety of leaders in education.

PROGRAM GOALS

- To focus on public education in NH and give each associate the opportunity to experience and discuss the current situation in a single school system.

- To enable associates to gain a better understanding of the framework for the delivery of public education in the state.

- To understand how the current system meets or does not meet the needs of all students and the personal responsibility of NH citizens to support the educational system.

- To consider your current involvement in education and explore the possibilities for future involvement and leadership

ASSIGNMENT

NH Dept. of Education - go the their website www.ed.state.NH.us/education/ - browse the state to get a sense of what the state is doing.

Claremont Schools - go to their website www. claremont.k12.nh.us - familiarize yourself with the district.

NH School Profiles - click on this site to see NH's school profiles: demographic, assessment and financial data for every district. Look at your community's data as it compare to other communities. Be sure to review the profiles for the Claremont schools. http://www.measuredprogress.org/nhprofile/

NH School Funding - surfers will find reports written by the Center for Public Policy Studies on their website, www.nhpolicy.org. From their homepage, in the right hand column, click on "education". Read the reports of interest to you.

No Child Left Behind - Here is a resource to help you familiarize yourself with NCLB, a very significant piece of federal legislation impacting schools in NH and across the nation. http://www.ed.gove/nclb/

Early Learning Resources - Why America Needs High-Quality Early Care and Education: http://www.businessroundtable.org/sites/default/files/2009.03.31%20Why%20America%20Needs%20High-Quality%20Early%20Care%20and%20Education.pdf

Presentation - Early Care and Education: A Proven Approach to Effective Workforce Development, a presentation by the Institute for Competitive Workforce, and affiliate of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. http://icw.uschamber.com/sites/default/files/ECE.pdf

Websites:
The Heckman Equation - http://www.heckmanequation.org
"Anyone looking for upstream solutions to the biggest problems facing America should look to Nobel Prize winning University of Chicago Economics Professor James Heckman's work to understand the great gains to be had by investing in early and equal development of human potential."

Partnership for America's Economic Success
http://www.partnershipforsuccess.org
"The Partnership for America's Economic Success is a coalition of economists, policy experts and advocates mobilizing business leaders to improve tomorrow's economy through smart policy investments in young children today. The Partnership is managed by The Pew Charitable Trusts."