Closing the Achievement Gap - Washington State School Directors ...

Gary Wilson Principal and Linda Hahn, Assistant Principal, LochburnMiddle School, Clover Park School District and Linda Fisher, Principal,Stevenson Elementary School, Bellevue School DistrictPresentations on high achieving, low socio-economic schoolsWendy Roedell, Puget Sound ESDEarly childhood learning standards: overview of the importance of earlychildhood educationGene Schmidt, Superintendent, Bridgeport School District and The LearningSpace’s Administrator of the YearPresentation on the digital divideRebecca Novick and Maureen Carr, NWRELPresentation on issues in literacy: A review of the advancement of“standard” literacy in us history to cognitive literacy expected todayGeneva Gay, University of Washington, Center for Multicultural EducationThe importance of multicultural education: Assumptions that needrethinkingSeptember 2001Thomas Cone, Assistant Superintendent, Vancouver School DistrictPersonalized plans for students with screening, diagnosis and a prescriptionfor mastery and the use of alternative state measures for demonstratingstudent growthAndrew Griffin, Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI)Review of Superintendent Terry Bergeson’s announcement of the 2001WASL resultsJanuary 2002Cherri Brondstetter, Wenatchee School District Teacher and RichardGomez, OSPIEffectiveness of dual language programs and other best practices forEnglish language learnersStephen Fink, University of Washington, Center for Educational LeadershipCEL’s mission of closing the achievement gap by providing training inthe necessary will and savvy to make the changes needed58CLOSING THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP: A POLICY ACTION GUIDE