2011 Leadership Institute  -  Keynote Speaker Joseph F. Murphy, Ph. D.

UCA is proud to announce the annual Leadership Institute for school leaders.  The keynote speaker for this event is Dr. Joseph F. Murphy.  Dr. Joseph Murphy is the Frank W. Mayborn Chair of Education and Associate Dean at Peabody College, Vanderbilt University.  He has also been a faculty member at the University of Illinois and The Ohio State University, where he was the William Ray Flesher Professor of Education. A nationally renowned researcher, he has devoted his career to studying the area of school improvement, with special emphasis on leadership and policy.  He has authored or co-authored 16 books and 2 major monographs in this area and edited another 12 books.  His most recent authored volumes include: Understanding and Assessing the Charter School Movement (2002), Leadership for Literacy (2004), Connecting Teacher Leadership and School Improvement (2005), Preparing School Leaders: An Agenda for Research and Action (2006), Turning Around Failing Schools: Leadership Lessons from the Organizational Sciences (2008) and The Educator's Handbook for Understanding and Closing Achievement Gaps (2010).  He has also published over 200 journal articles and book chapters on school improvement and leadership.

Read his full bio, here.

UA-Fayetteville Office of Education Policy Presentation

Office of Ed Policy Agenda
UA-Fayetteville Office of Ed Policy Spotlights on Success Education Report
OEP Spotlight On Success Presentation

2010 Leadership Institute  -  Keynote Speaker Dr. Ellen Goldring

In this presentation Dr. Goldring presents a framework that describes learning-centered leadership, a set of behaviors rooted in the literature that are associated with effective leadership and a corresponding leadership assessment system, the Vanderbilt Assessment For Leadership in Education (VAL-ED). Learning-centered leadership is leadership for student performance. One of the greatest needs in the field is to develop leadership assessment that can be used to pro-vide high quality performance feedback to school leaders.

The presentation will focus on two key dimensions of highly effective leader-ship behavior: core components and key processes. Core components refer to what principals or leadership teams must accomplish to improve academic and social learning for all students, while key processes refer to how leaders create those core components. Core components refer to characteristics of schools that support the learning of students and enhance the ability of teachers to teach. Key processes are leadership behaviors that raise organizational members’ levels of commitment and shape organizational cul-ture. Effective learning-centered leadership is at the intersection of the two dimensions: core components cre-ated through key processes.