Conference on English Leadership - Previous Revision

The Conference on English Leadership (CEL) is a collaborative, dynamic, discussion-based forum for English language arts leaders to explore current and emerging issues. CEL welcomes the involvement of all persons who wish to work with others to seek solutions to problems and to share their special insights with others. Leaders of English programs in a variety of settings--rural or urban, small districts or large, public or private, traditional or experimental--will find a vibrant forum for exploring contrasting and controversial ideas within CEL.  

Since 1970, CEL has assisted language arts leaders in sharing mutual problems and insights, exchanging resources, seeking the advice of successful leaders, and investigating issues of greatest concern to leaders.  

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NCTE's Annual Convention Program is now searchable on the web! Remember, the CEL workshop is listed as Workshop 15 (W.15)

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Conference on English Leadership Journal

Take a moment to read the latest English Leadership Quarterly. If you're a member of CEL, you'll be able to access the entire journal. If you're not a member of CEL, you'll be able to view the abstract. Join CEL and view the entire journal online!

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What's New in Education Leadership

+ Genocide From the InsideTracy Kidder asks how a traumatized African becomes an American.
Don’t know if you have any use for this in INBOX or elsewhere, but there’s a story in Slate.com today on upcoming Convention speaker Kidder’s latest book, Strength in What Remains.
http://www.slate.com/id/2225905/

Library Trucks Bear Literary Ads The Kansas City Star June 26, 2009 http://www.kansascity.com/news/neighborhood/leawood/story/1282628.html

Avoiding the Summer Brain Drain
Baltimore Sun July 1, 2009 http://www.baltimoresun.com/features/parenting/bal-summerlearning-0701,0,948921.story

Three young women are the first graduates of the Neighborhood Academy to finish college 
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - May 9, 2009 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09129/968946-53.stm

Colleges scan Facebook during admissions eCampus News May 12, 2009http://www.ecampusnews.com/news/top-news/?i=58714;_hbguid=1f5a836a-1f5d-4c12-b6c9-3ff5994f5ef2

This year, 'senioritis' may have dire consequences
USA Today - May 7, 2009 http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2009-05-06-senioritis-college_N.htm

Teacher Training Goes in Virtual Directions 
(Education Week) March 26, 2009 http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2009/03/26/26virtual.h28.html?tkn=UYRF1gTO71on1ol8c%2FAsHSzs9Bw8Ira0QG43

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Best Minds Sought for Central Office, Startups

 (Education Week) February 2, 2009 http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2009/02/04/20centraloffice_ep.h28.html?tmp=1698492405. 

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go to the CEL Blog and voice your thoughts.

Business Leaders Support Higher Goals for Students
A group of Maryland business leaders announced a partnership with the Baltimore school system yesterday to encourage students to take harder high school classes.
The Maryland Business Roundtable for Education is trying to double the number of high school students statewide who complete the requirements of a federal college scholarship program for low-income families. Baltimore Sun (12/10/08)http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/education/k12/bal-md.roundtable10dec09,0,1317904.story . 

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Gates Revamps Its Strategy for Giving to Education
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation unveiled plans to revamp its high school grantmaking strategy to focus squarely on three pillars: identifying and promoting higher standards for college readiness, improving teacher quality, and fostering innovations to aid struggling students. Education Week News November 11, 2008 http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2008/11/11/13gates.h28.html

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States Press Ahead on "21st-Century Skills," Leaders in business and academia increasingly argue that in a highly globalized, technology-driven age, young people need to know how to innovate, solve problems, and work with people from other cultures as much as they need to know algebra and U.S. history. Many educators refer to those and a host of other competencies—such as being literate in finance, civics, media, and technology—as “21st-century skills,” for their importance to students’ future success Education Week, October 13, 2008,
http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2008/10/15/08skills.h28.html

U of L to join largest study of U.S. children ever undertaken
The largest study of U.S. children ever performed — aiming to track 100,000 from conception to age 21 — will start recruiting mothers-to-be in North Carolina and New York in January. And the University of Louisville, which has received a grant for the study, will begin to do so in 2010. Lexington Herald-Leader October 4, 2008 http://www.kentucky.com/news/state/story/544804.html

Urban school superintendents hard to keep
Despite good salaries and plenty of perks, a recent study found that the average urban superintendent nationwide stays on the job only about three years — which educators say isn't enough time to enact meaningful, long-lasting reform. USA Today September 28, 2008 http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2008-09-28-superintendent_N.htm 

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