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AGENDA                         LAS XVI                    October 30, 2002

Education: How Good Are We?

Media Center, Randolph School, 90 Montford Ave.

October 30, 2002

"Leadership can responsibly foster enough disequilibrium to motivate us to learn"
-Ronald Heifetz

8:30 Coffee and muffins

8:45 Buncombe County and Asheville City Schools

Cliff Dodson, superintendent, Buncombe County Schools
Robert Logan, superintendent, Asheville City Schools

9:30 Q & A

10:00 Break

10:15 KIPP: Asheville Youth Academy--School Within a School

Shawn D. Jackson, program director, KIPP Academy

11:30 Lunch

12:15 Buncombe County Nurture Potential

Barbara Moloney and Jeanette Christian, academically gifted coordinators, Buncombe County Schools

1:30 Break

1:45 A Statewide Perspective

Wayne McDevitt (LA 3), member, State Board of Education and vice chancellor for administration and finance, University of North Carolina at Asheville

2:00 Q & A

2:30 A Legislative Perspective

Charles Carter, high school teacher and North Carolina state senator

2:45 Q & A

3:15 Wrap Up and Putting It All Together


Suggested Activities:

• school board meetings

• visit your local school and meet the principal

• volunteer in a school

• take a class at A.B. Tech or UNCA

• read to children; gift books as gifts to children

Special thanks to:
 Lettie Polite (LAS X), Angela Baisley (LAS XV), Bette Walburgh
and Liz Pritchard (LAS XIII)
 

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