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KLA and other partners will host an International Leadership Summit. Participants to this unique, innovative event will have the opportunity to interact virtually and in person with leading practitioners from continents and countries including Australia, South Africa, Iraq, the United Kingdom, China, India, and the United States. The event will lay the foundation of the three summit strands: Effective Schooling, Effective Learning, and Effective Leadership in a global society. This innovative summit builds upon Kentucky’s work in developing instructional leadership teams and improving performance of under achieving schools and frames it for sustainability around a 21st century, global network.
Research-based Rationale:
We chose the Institute/Summit model with ongoing follow-up as our mode of delivery. According to the Institute for Educational Leadership, this is one of the eight most effective models of professional development for education leaders. With the sense of urgency to prepare our students for a dramatically different future, we chose to target education leaders to serve as the impetus to involve their staff and students in a global community, to share and learn from each other. This Summit will serve as a venue to connect classrooms, schools, and school districts across the globe to further demonstrate that the world is indeed “flat” and we are becoming more and more interdependent upon each other. Based on the ongoing research of Gary Marx, Daniel Pink, and Thomas Friedman, it is evident that if we do not prepare our students to be successful in the current global economy, their chances for success are minimized.
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