Department of

Leadership & Educational Studies

Presentation

Beating the Odds:  Case Studies of Three North Carolina Elementary Schools' Success with Student Achievement

Presenter Anita F. Ware, Ed.D.

Wednesday, April 24, 2002

4:00 - 5:30 p.m.

Broyhill Inn Conference Center  

Dr. Anita Ware is currently a faculty member with the Principals' Executive Program a constituent program in the University of North Carolina's Center for School Leadership Development.  She co-directs the Instructional Leadership Initiative at PEP that involves school based reform and research with eleven high poverty, high minority schools in North Carolina. 

Dr. Ware's presentation will focus on a recent study conducted on three elementary schools in North Carolina that have "beaten the odds" in improving student achievement.  Each of these three schools made remarkable accomplishments in promoting achievement with students who have not traditionally been successful.  Discussion will include the three ways in which these schools have achieved success, 1) concentrating instruction on student performance, 2) creating inviting school climates, and 3) guiding reform through energetic leadership, and how their patterns of performance have transformed their schools from places where failure was often expected to places where everyone now expects to achieve. 

Students, faculty, staff in the ROCE and local school leaders, as well as any interested parties, are invited to attend the presentation session