Vol, 6, No. 33: October 29, 2007		Get SEAchange by email

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1. On the road

From Monday through Wednesday, October 22-24, State Superintendent Elizabeth Burmaster attended the Wallace Foundation National Conference, an annual event focusing on educational leadership. The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction won a $1,275,000 competitive grant from the Wallace Foundation in 2004 to support the Wisconsin Urban Schools Leadership Project, an initiative bringing together exceptional principals from urban schools. The principals establish learning communities, collaborate with each other and with university faculty to improve student achievement, contribute to the development of a national exemplary urban school leadership model, inform state policy regarding the identification of a master urban principal, and achieve master educator licensure. One group of principals has now graduated from the program, while the second cohort is hard at work to continue the legacy.

On Thursday, October 25, Burmaster addressed the annual convention of the Wisconsin Education Association Council (WEAC). She thanked the assembled educators for working to raise student achievement and close the achievement gap. Burmaster also reiterated her call for changes in federal education law, which she says must recognize multiple measures of student achievement, encourage innovation in classrooms and schools, and empower best teaching practices to support struggling students, as well as provide funding for the reforms it mandates.

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Last updated on 10/29/2007