|  Three nationally-recognized speakers
highlight 2006 Summer Leadership Institute Three high quality general session speakers await the approximately 650 principals attending the fifth annual Principals’ Partnership Summer Leadership Institute July 10-13 at the JW Marriott Desert Ridge Resort & Spa. Dr. Willard R. Daggett, president, International Center for Leadership in Education, and an expert on moving schools forward, will speak at the first general session Tuesday morning. Darrell Scott, father of Rachel Scott who was killed in the Columbine High School tragedy, will present at the second general session Wednesday morning. The final session on Thursday will feature Playwright Luis Valdez, who has created El Teatro Campesino. The Institute opens Monday evening with a reception and dinner. More than 35 individual program events are scheduled through the four days, including 10 assemblies, information sessions, and school size-a-like sessions. Principals will also participate in team meetings at the Institute. Additionally information on the program will appear on the Web site in the coming months. Principals should look for registration materials, which they will receive both electronically and through regular mail, around the beginning of April. In the opening general session Daggett will speak on “Successful High Schools—What Makes Them Work.” He’ll outline the findings of research teams that studied the 30 high schools identified by the Council of Chief State School Officers and the International Center for Leadership in the <i>Bringing Best Practices to Scale</i> initiative and recommend ways to design a more rigorous curriculum for all students based on those findings. Daggett, who is recognized for his skill in assisting schools teach more relevant and rigorous skills for all students, has assisted a number of states and school systems with their school improvement initiatives. Before founding his Center, Daggett has been a secondary school teacher and administrator and a director with the New York State Education Department. Scott will discuss the challenges that his daughter offered to people of all ages through her diaries in his presentation “Rachel’s Challenge.” Since the April 1999 Columbine tragedy, Scott has been featured in many of the major national television shows and in national publications, twice met with the president, and written several books, including the best-seller “Rachel’s Tears.” Valdez will talk on “21st Century Education: Accounting for the Past and Future.” A former council member of the National Endowment for the Arts and a founding member of the California Arts Council, he created El Teatro Campesino on the strike lines in the fields around Delano, California, during the Great Grape Strike of 1965. He initially created skits that dramatized the cause of farm workers and urban Chicanos. From there he has gained national and international acclaim with Broadway productions, Hollywood movies, and PBS presentations. He is a professor at California State University, Monterey Bay. Past News Items: Idaho Principals Honor Union Pacific - 1/06 Milwaukee Public Schools Recognizes
Principals' Partnership - 7/05 Summer Institute LIVE Coverage - 7/05 Summer Institute News - 4/05 The Principals' Partnership Receives
NASSP's Distinguished Service Award -3/05 WASSP names us a "Platinum Partnership" - 3/05 Union Pacific Foundation Receives UASSP Award - 2/05 Summer Institute News - 1/05 Senior Partner News- 9/04 Senior Partner Program Announced - 7/04 2004 Principals' Partnership Summer Institute!-5/04
Principals' Partnership Lead Team Meets with Texas Education Leaders- 4/04 Union Pacific Recognized by Chicago Principals for Partnership - 3/04 Partnership Consultant Receives
Gruhn-Long-Melton Award- 2/04 Ursula Harrison Named Wyoming High School Principal of the Year- 11/03 2003 Summer Institute A "Home Run!" Summer Leadership Institute in Portland, Oregon, July 14-17, 2003 Chicago Principals Focus on Instruction - 10/02 Summer Institute 2002 - 7/02 Educational Leaders to Speak at First Summer Institute- 4/02 | 
