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Education: Community Crossroads
Mountain Area Child and Family Center, 2586 Riceville Road; Buncombe Community
School, 235 Old US Hwy 70
October 31, 2001
"Leadership can responsibly foster enough disequilibrium to motivate us to
learn"
- Ronald Heifetz 8:30 Coffee and muffins
8:45 Panel: Drop Out Problem and Prevention
Moderator: Jane Weis (LAS XIV)
Gene Bell, Asheville Housing Authority, Project STEAM
Jim Drummond, Asheville City Schools
Kay Lamm, Buncombe County Schools
10:00 Break
10:15 Early Childhood Education as Drop Out Prevention?
Lois Sexton, former Early Head Start director and consultant to Mountain Area
Child and Family Center
11:00 Travel to Buncombe Community School
11:15 Model School and Community Collaborations
Suzanne Swanger, principal, Emma Elementary
Rob Curtis, principal, Buncombe Community School
Jean Nagel, counselor, Buncombe Community School
12:15 Lunch
1:30 Testing
Bob Douglas, public school activist and former member of State Board of
Education
Charles Carter, North Carolina Senator
June McCracken, Asheville City Schools Testing coordinator
Jeff Gorshack, Buncombe County Schools Testing Specialist
3:00 Putting It All Together and Wrap-Up
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), Jane Weis (LAS XIV) and Liz Pritchard
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