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MILWAUKEE PUBLIC
SCHOOLS RECOGNIZES
PRINCIPALS’ PARTNERSHIP
Marty Lexmond (second from left), director
of high school reform, Milwaukee Public Schools, presents
an Award of Gratitude and Recognition, to Darlynn Herwig,
director, Union Pacific Foundation, during the fourth annual
Principals’ Partnership Summer Leadership Institute.
Jim Hoffmann (far left), executive director, Principals’ Partnership,
and Howard Jennings, consultant, Principals Partnership,
watch.
The
Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) has honored The Principals’ Partnership,
a unique professional development program for public high
school principals that is sponsored by Union Pacific Foundation,
for efforts in calling attention to the importance of
school leadership.
“We are taking ideas from The Partnership
and replicating them as we work to develop small learning
communities and small high schools in Milwaukee,” explained
Marty Lexmond, MPS director of high school redesign. “It
is essential that the work of principals and other school
leaders be acknowledged and valued.”
The Award of Gratitude and
Recognition was presented May 20 by Superintendent Bill
Andrekopoulos and
John Polczynski, principal, Milwaukee School of Entrepreneurship,
to Howard Jennings, consultant, Principals’ Partnership,
during a dinner in Milwaukee.
MPS is starting the third year of implementing
the small learning community and small high school models.
Currently, two schools have implemented the small learning
community philosophy and another three will in September.
Ten schools are using the small high school model with eight
more being added this fall.
It’s essential that there be a common
focus in this movement,” Lexmond said. “We are
seeing that the schools which are implementing these programs
in Milwaukee have principals who clearly communicate that
focus to others in the school.”
Lexmond explained that principals
frequently are not recognized for their leadership, and
the honoring
of school leaders is a focus of The Principals’ Partnership
that MPS is replicating in its reform efforts.
Past News Items:
Summer
Institute LIVE Coverage - 7/05
Summer Institute News - 4/05
WASSP
names us a "Platinum
Partnership"
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
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