October: More From Our Schools #2

The second forum, “STRATEGIES,” happened on October 15, 2011 at the University of Colorado Denver Tivoli Student Union.

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Please click through to hear the evening’s audio and follow along with a few slides by clicking here.

 

UCD Dean of the School of Public Affairs Paul Teske gave opening remarks and introduced moderator John Merrow.

 

The evening’s conversation revolved around the Denver Plan’s goals and strategies. The audience audience picked the panel’s conversation topics from the Plan via keypad polling.

 

On the panel: Howard Fuller, Distinguished Professor of Education & Director, The Institute for the Transformation of Learning at Marquette University; Lorrie Shepard, Dean of the University of Colorado School of Education; Paul Hill, Director at the Reinventing Public Education at the University of Washington.

 

The first topic: “Great teachers and principals mean kids do better in school.” Listen to the discussion here.

 

Second topic: “Focus on school performance. Close poor-performing schools, open new schools.”

 

The panelists launched into Q & A.

 

We closed the forum with some final thoughts from the panel on what Denver can do to move its schools in a positive direction.

 

A few other documents for your perusal:

Looking for more basic info on the Denver Plan? Look no further.

And we’ve got full bios of the panelists and moderator here.

If you want to hear the full hour-and-a-half-long audio of the event, the file in its entirety is here.