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2012 UCEA Convention

2012 UCEA Conference Theme:
The Future Is Ours: Leadership Matters

November 15 - 18, 2012
City Center Marriott in Denver, Colorado

8:00am MST

UCEA Executive Committee Meeting Molly Brown

8:00am MST

UCEA Executive Committee Meeting II Molly Brown

7:00am MST

UCEA Graduate Student Council Meeting Spruce

8:00am MST

UCEA Executive Committee Meeting III Molly Brown

11:30am MST

USDOE Grantees Meeting Colorado G-J

12:45pm MST

UCEA Plenary Session Meeting Denver 1-4

3:00pm MST

Opening Session: Graduate Student Summit Spruce

4:10pm MST

Graduate Student Summit: 21st Century Schooling: Technology, Policy, & Leadership Colorado B Graduate Student Summit: An Exploration of the Role of Gender and Ethnicity in the Experiences of School Leaders and Students Colorado C Graduate Student Summit: Awareness as a Path to Equity Spruce Graduate Student Summit: Studying Principal Characteristics and Teacher-Principal Relationship Colorado D

7:00am MST

UCEA Plenary Session Meeting II Denver 1

8:00am MST

Graduate Student Summit: Joining Forces for School Success: Emerging and Shifting Partnerships with Parents, Intermediaries and Community Organizations Colorado G Graduate Student Summit: Promising Ideas, Perspectives and Methods Spruce Graduate Student Summit: Schooling in Context Colorado I Graduate Student Summit: The Role of Leadership in Higher Education: People Matter Colorado H USDOE Grantees Meeting II Pomeroy BELMAS-UCEA Research Collaboration: The International School Leadership Development Network Colorado A Jackson Scholars Research Seminar Nat Hill School Discipline and African American Learners: Suspended Animation! Matchless UCEA Plenum Breakout Sessions Colorado B-D

9:20am MST

Graduate Student Summit: Changes in the Climate of Educational Leadership: Where do we stand? Colorado H Graduate Student Summit: Effect of Policy in Different Contexts Colorado G Graduate Student Summit: Leadership Preparation: Programs, Policy, & Practice Colorado I Graduate Student Summit: Epistemology Diversity Development in First-Year Doctoral Students Spruce

10:40am MST

Closing Session: Graduate Student Summit Spruce

12:00pm MST

UCEA Awards Luncheon Colorado E-F

1:00pm MST

Exhibits Colorado B-D

2:00pm MST

Conceptualizing Teacher Leadership: Implications for Practice, Research, and Policy Gold Coin IGNITE! Heart, Mind, Soul Colorado A International Perspectives on 'High Need Schools': Implications for Leadership Preparation and Development Denver 6 Partnership between School and Universities: Leaders Transforming Learners and Learning Project (2004‐2011) Nat Hill Candidate Learning Experiences in EdD Programs Denver 1 Developing and Mentoring Principals Colorado J Instructional Leadership in for College and Career Readiness Molly Brown Leading Improvement in a Context of Accountability Denver 5 Public School Choice Pomeroy Strengthening Curriculum and Learning in Leadership Preparation Colorado H The Role of Race in Educational Leadership and Change Colorado G Orientation Session for Graduate Students and New Faculty Spruce Role-Alike Session for Sitting and Aspiring Department Chairs Matchless Moving Beyond the Border(s) … What Schools Have to Learn about Leading Emerging Latino Communities Colorado I The Influence of Centralized Curriculum Control on Student Achievement in Elementary and High Schools Denver 2 Career Connections Job Fair Denver 3 Individual Interview Room Silverton

3:20pm MST

UCEA Center for Educational Leadership and Social Justice: Lessons from the Duquesne Educational Leadership Symposium Mattie Silks IGNITE! Collaborative Approaches to Leadership Development Colorado A Exporting the ELCC Standards: Adapting Leadership Standards to Various Religious, Cultural and Linguistic Contexts Gold Coin Educational Reform: Influences and Effects Denver 5 Leading Diverse Learners Colorado G Principals Engaging Families and Communities Colorado I Racial Lines in and Out of Schools Molly Brown The High School to College Pipeline Colorado J The Impact of Principal Leadership on Teachers Colorado H The Practice and Development of District Superintendents Denver 6 UCEA Center for Educational Law: Research on Education Law Denver 2 Assessing Partnership Effectiveness: A Diagnostic Tool Supported by the Wallace Foundation Pomeroy Composing A Scholarly Life: Fireside Chat with the UCEA 2012 Award Winners Spruce Evaluating the Effectiveness of Leadership preparation: What, Why and How Nat Hill Pathways for Performance: Recruitment, Preparation, Licensure, and Certification, and Professional Development for School Principals in Minnesota Denver 1 Unconference Session: Emerging Policy Trends: What Do You See Coming Our Way? Colorado E-F

4:40pm MST

IGNITE! Partnerships, Networks, Relationships and Mentors Colorado A Autonomy, Experience and Leadership Runover Mattie Silks Developing and Evaluating Teachers Denver 5 Developing Leadership Capacity Colorado H Engaging Parents and Community Organizations Molly Brown Facilitating High School Completion: Innovative Approaches Colorado G Innovative Approaches to Leadership Development Colorado J Learning from the Experience of Women's Leadership Colorado I Supporting the Success of Women and Scholars of Color Pomeroy Time to Pay Attention: Race in Leadership and Schools Denver 2 Turnaround Schools: Leadership, Policy and Lived Experience Denver 1 Julie Laible Memorial Session for UCEA Jackson Scholars Spruce Leadership, technology, and school reform: UCEA Center for the Advanced Study of Technology Leadership in Education (CASTLE) Gold Coin National Survey of U.S. Doctoral Educational Leadership Programs Nat Hill The Changing Nature of Instructional Leadership in the 21st Century Denver 6

6:10pm MST

General Session I: Texas A & M Social Justice Speaker, Dr. Sonia Nieto Colorado E-F

7:45pm MST

Convention Opening Reception in honor of UCEA Past Presidents Pre-Function

7:00am MST

Jackson Scholars Advisory Board Meeting Denver 4 Latino Research Sig Matchless Leadership for School Improvement SIG Denver 6 Leadership for Social Justice SIG Colorado G Learning and Teaching in Educational Leadership (LTEL) Executive Committee SIG Molly Brown Membership Committee Colorado I Politics of Education Association SIG Denver 2 Program Centers Director Board of Directors and Advisory Board Meeting Denver 1 Taskforce on Distance Learning Mattie Silks UCEA Awards Committee Colorado J UCEA Publications Meeting Denver 3 UCEA Research on Women in Leadership SIG Colorado H Graduate Student Breakfast: Turning the Dissertation into Articles Spruce Developing Leaders to Support Diverse Learners Curriculum Module Denver 5

8:00am MST

Authentic Networks and Community - School Partnerships Colorado H Being Mindful: Purposeful Development of Supportive School Cultures Denver 6 IGNITE! Building Human Capital in Schools Colorado A Learning from Parental Perspective on the Schooling Process Molly Brown Leveraging Human Capital for School Denver 1 Praise and Punishment: Test Scores, Principal Performance and School Discipline Denver 2 Shaping Beliefs and Practice for High Achievement Matchless Demystifying the Academic Job Search: Tips and Resources for Those Considering the Professorship Spruce Autoethnographies of Leaders for Social Justice: An Alternative Model for School Leadership Preparation Denver 4 Context Matters: Comparing the Contexts of Leadership Preparation Programs Mattie Silks Critical Policy Analysis: Unpacking Macro-level Policies that Elicit Micro-level Politics for Historically Marginalized School Communities Colorado J Exploring New Leadership Terrain: Mapping Educational and Cultural Fronts Denver 3 The Impact of Charter Schools: Segregation, Skimming, Selective Attrition, and Student Legal Rights Colorado G Unconference Session: Building Bridges Across Differences: Increasing Social Justice Discourse in Educational Leadership Colorado E-F Exhibits II Colorado B-D

9:30am MST

IGNITE! Leadership Challenges and Opportunities in the Current Policy Context Colorado A Getting Into Classrooms: The New School Management by Wandering Around Colorado H The Future of School Board Governance: Improving Educational Governance Structures Through An International Comparative Study Colorado I A Day in a Life of a Principal Denver 3 An Inclusive Future: Leadership in the Socio-cultural Dimension Denver 2 Implementing Federal Policy in Schools and Classrooms Molly Brown Inclusive Communities and Unique Student Needs Denver 6 Leading with Technology Mattie Silks New Approaches and Tools for Principal Evaluation Denver 5 Preparing Future Leaders for Diversity and Social Justice Matchless Using Evidence to Lead Change Colorado J 'Show Me the Money! (or, maybe not...) ' Spruce Informal Session on UCEA and UCEA Membership Denver 1 Leadership Matters: Transforming Urban Education through Culturally Relevant Frameworks Colorado G vLeader: A Simulation for Leadership Preparation Programs Denver 4

11:00am MST

General Session II: UCEA Presidential Address, Dr. Andrea Rorrer Colorado E-F

12:20pm MST

Leadership Matters: Promoting Active Agency in Educational Leadership Preparation Policymaking Colorado G IGNITE! Communities Colorado A Spiritualizing Hip Hop: Highlighting the Practices and Pedagogy of Black Hip Hop educational leaders Colorado I Educational Leadership Policy and Implications for Preparation and Practice Matchless Principal Preparation Programs: National Standards, Certification and Redesign Denver 5 School Leadership Program Grants: Innovation, Evaluation, and Implications Colorado J Schools as Social Systems: District Coherence, School Leadership and Classroom Climate Denver 6 Should I Stay or Should I go? Superintendents' Quality of Life and Turnover Denver 2 Significance of Trust Mattie Silks Superintendency and Governance: Policy, Performance and Accountability Denver 1 Shoulda, Coulda, Woulda…': What We Wish We Had Known Before Becoming a Professor Spruce Capstone Project or Capstone Portfolio: The Culminating Demonstration of Learning in the Education Doctorate Colorado H Manifesting our Destiny: African-American Womens’ Narrative Experiences on Leading and Learning in Educational Environments Denver 3 UCEA Center Session on Successful School Leadership: Findings from US-Based Teams in the International Successful School Principalship Project (ISSPP) Denver 4

1:50pm MST

General Session III: Evaluating and Promoting Educator Effectiveness Through National State and Local Policy Levers: A Wallace Town Hall Colorado E-F

3:10pm MST

Leaders Creating Space for Social Justice Dialogue and Action Colorado H Reclaiming a Seat at the Table - Influencing Policy and Practice Through State Professional Organizations Colorado J IGNITE! Equity and Student Safety Colorado A Successful Online Courses for Aspiring Principals Denver 3 Summit Mentor Session II Spruce AASA Focus Group Molly Brown Cultural Competency in High Needs Schools Denver 6 Just Leadership for Students with Disabilities Denver 2 Principals Leading School Reform Denver 5 Who's Running Our Schools? Matchless Examining Policy and Practice Trends Impact Leadership Evaluation Denver 1 Mentoring Session for Associate Professors Seeking Full Professors Denver 4 Educational Leadership in International Contexts: Learning Lessons from Around the World Colorado I Transformative Leadership—Translating Theory into Action in the 21st Century Mattie Silks UCEA Centre for the Study of Leadership and Ethics: Ethical Leadership: Insights from Practice in Canada, Sweden, Australia and the USA Colorado G Unconference Session: Utilizing Student Voice to Accelerate School Improvement Colorado E-F

4:40pm MST

Faculty development and the brave, not so new world of online teaching and learning Denver 5 The Future of Socially Just Leadership: Identity, Critical Pedagogy, and Dialogue in Leadership Preparation Colorado I IGNITE! People, Standards, Rhetoric and Reality Colorado A Summit Mentor Session I Spruce A Comparison of Four Models of Teacher Leadership Colorado J Coping with Budgetary Constraints in Schools Matchless Entrepreneurship, Competition and Leadership in Schools and Universities Molly Brown Key Qualities of Effective Leaders Denver 4 Promises and Pitfalls of Leadership Succession Colorado H Responsive Leadership for Students with Disabilities Denver 2 Tapping the Potential of School and University Partnerships Denver 3 Role-Alike Session for Sitting and Aspiring Deans Mattie Silks Power, Sustainability, and the Racial Politics of Educational Leadership: Learning from Diverse, Visionary Change Agents Colorado G Teaching Educational Leadership Denver 6 Using Student Achievement Data to Assess Principal Preparation Programs Denver 1

6:10pm MST

General Session IV: In Honor of UCEA Barbara L. Jackson Scholars, Dr. John H. Jackson Colorado E-F

7:30pm MST

UCEA Barbara L Jackson Scholars Summit Colorado E-F

7:00am MST

Gay Straight Alliance Denver 1 Policy and Advocacy Taskforce Colorado I UCEA Center for Ethics and Values in Leadership Colorado H UCEA Center for Leadership and Social Justice Denver 3 UCEA Center for School Law Colorado J UCEA Center for School Site Leadership Denver 2 UCEA Center for School Technology Leadership Denver 4 UCEA Center for the Evaluation of Educational Leadership Preparation and Practice Colorado G UCEA Center for the Study of Leadership in Urban Schools Denver 6 UCEA Center for the Study of the Superintendency and District Governance Denver 5 UCEA Review Editorial Team Meeting Mattie Silks

8:00am MST

Developing Leaders to Support Diverse Learners Curriculum Module II Denver 4 CPED Initiative Meeting Colorado G Assistant Principals: Preparing New Leadership and Improving Student Learning Denver 5 IGNITE! Engaged Leadership Colorado A Issues and Implications of Teacher Compensation Matchless Leadership Preparation of Principals Colorado I Principal and Students: Creating a Culture of Academic Optimism Denver 2 Principals Navigating Politics and Policy Mattie Silks Social Justice: Leadership Preparation, Resistance and Change Denver 6 Teachers and Leaders Creating Equity Oriented Schools Colorado J The Use of Technology to Enhance Pedagogy and Leadership Preparation Molly Brown Making grants work for you (instead of just working for grants) Spruce State of the States: Policies Impacting Educational Leadership Preparation Denver 1 Homeschooling in America Colorado H Incentives for Good Schools: Charting the Course of Design Iterations Denver 3 Exhibits III Colorado B-D

9:30am MST

LeaderU Phone App: Innovative Tool for Leadership Development Matchless At-Risk Youth: Student Perspectives, Leadership Practices and Policy Mattie Silks IGNITE! Issues of Race, Class and Language Colorado A Impact and Responsiveness of Principal Preparation Denver 5 Principal Leadership and Working Conditions Colorado H Professional Learning Communities Denver 2 Teacher Efficacy and Cultural Competence Colorado G The Principal: Issues of Age, Gender and Race Denver 6 Theoretical and Methodological Lens for the Study of Educational Leadership Colorado J Developing Sustainable and Effective Mentoring Programs: The Wallace Foundation Leadership Strand Session Three Colorado I Maximizing the Doctoral Program Experience While Maintaining a Balance in Your Life Spruce Learning to Lead: Innovative Leadership Preparation Practices that Work – and How We Know They Do Denver 3 The Role of Leadership in Confronting Racism in K-12 Schooling Denver 4 Transcendence as Leadership for the Future: Women of Color Enacting Advancement in Academic Careers Denver 1

11:00am MST

General Session V: Pennsylvania State University Mitstifer Lecture, Dr. Allan Walker Colorado E-F

12:30pm MST

Critical Conversation: Inclusive Schooling and Leadership for Social Justice Denver 6 Hiring qualified faculty for educational leadership: How do we find and keep them? Molly Brown Listening to Student Voice: Toward a More Inclusive Theory for Research and Practice Mattie Silks UCEA Joint Center for the Study of the Superintendency and District Governance: Linking Teacher and Leader Evaluation Models to Empirical Research: A Conversation with Dr. Robert Marzano Denver 4 Developing and Using Democratic and Ethical Leadership Denver 2 Highlights from the UCEA Gradate Student Summit Spruce Principal Potential: Roles, Problem Solving, and Contexts Colorado H Professional Learning Communities: Design, Components, and Impact Denver 5 Public School Finance: Equity, Adequacy, and Tax Bases Colorado I Safe Spaces and Educational Access: Meeting the Needs of Undocumented or English Language Learners Colorado J School Leadership Preparation: Internships and Outcomes Denver 3 Technology Leadership Practices: Opportunities and Challenges Matchless Current Issues in Special Education Law for School Leaders Denver 1 Urban School Leadership: Why Conversations on Race, Class, Disability, and Culture are not Centered Colorado G

2:00pm MST

New DEELVille Faces The Common Core: An Ethical Dilemma Matchless “Juggling Flaming Chainsaws”: Scholars in Educational Leadership Try to Balance Work and Life Colorado H Fourth Year Report of Success for the Rural Alaska Principal Preparation and Support Program Colorado I Marzano Brainstorm Session Sponsored by the UCEA Center for Research on the Superintendency and District Governance Denver 4 Making Sense of Social Justice: An International Exploration of School Leader Perspectives. Colorado G Diverse Backgrounds and Perspectives of Principals Denver 6 Fresh Perspectives on School Leadership Denver 2 Leadership Preparation Programs Development of Equity Orientations Denver 1 Policy Influences on Educational Systems Colorado J Professional Development for Teachers and Principals Denver 3 Strategies for Improving Instruction Molly Brown Summit Mentor Session III Spruce A Fifteen Year Review of Student, Teacher, and Administrator Demographics and Turnover in Texas Charter Schools Denver 5 Green Schools: Whole School Sustainability Now and for the Future Mattie Silks UCEA Film Festival Colorado E-F

3:30pm MST

Abriendo puertas, cerrando heridas (Opening doors, closing wounds): Continued conversations with Latina/o Scholars Molly Brown Challenging Student Push-out: Social Justice and School Discipline Matters Colorado I Continuing to Disrupt the Status Quo? Young and New Women Professors of Educational Leadership Colorado J IGNITE! Development of Teachers, Leaders, and Higher Ed Faculty Colorado A Critical Evocative Portraiture: Giving Life the Shape of Justice: A WLE Symposium Matchless Administrative Climate, Teacher Autonomy, and Teacher Retention Mattie Silks Deciphering State and Federal Funding Colorado H Developing, Supporting, and Sustaining Black Leaders Denver 2 Sustaining Professional Communities Denver 4 Teacher Accountability: Hiring, Evaluation and Ethics Denver 6 The Influence of Leadership on Learning Denver 3 What Counts as Effective Leadership Preparation and How Do We Know? Denver 1 Digital Window: An ARG for Leadership Preparation Programs Denver 5

5:10pm MST

A Colloquium on Social Justice Leadership Preparation through Open Space Technology Colorado H Community-based Research with Chicana/o-Latina/o Communities: A Proposed Critical Conversation on Scholarship, Leadership, and Community Engagement Denver 6 Developing the Scholar in the Scholarly-Practitioner: Building Research Capacity in Ed.D. Programs Denver 5 Does “The Future’’ Include Us?: Black Women Faculty on the State of Educational Leadership for Us Denver 1 Just Getting Started: Lessons from Race to the Top Funded School Leaders Colorado G The Aspiring Principals Program: School District-University Collaboration Colorado I The Future is Ours: A Critical Conversation for the Enactment of Social Justice Practices in Schools Denver 3 Towards a Framework for Overcoming the Limitations of Consciousness-Raising Denver 4 IGNITE! Dissertation in Practice Colorado A Avenues to Teacher Growth and Development Colorado J Mentoring Session for Assistant Professors Seeking Tenure and Promotion Mattie Silks School Leaders in Texas: Changing Demographics for Schools Across Contexts, 1990-2010 Denver 2

6:30pm MST

Pre- banquet Reception and Cash Bar Colorado E-F

7:00pm MST

General Session VI and UCEA Banquet: Mattie C. Stewart Foundation, Dr. Shelley Stewart Colorado E-F

8:00am MST

EAQ Editorial Board Meeting Denver 1 JCEL Editorial Board Meeting Denver 6 UCEA-FIPSE Leadership Team Meeting Denver 4 Evaluation Research Taskforce Denver 2 International Summit University of Denver College of Education

10:00am MST

JRLE Editorial Board Meeting Denver 1