Executive Director Warren Simmons to Attend Aspen Urban Superintendents Network meeting (11/30-12/3)

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Executive Director Warren Simmons will attend the Aspen Urban Superintendent’s Network meeting in Prince Georges County, Maryland (11/30-12/3).  US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan will speak.

Since 2000, a central strand of the Aspen Institute’s Education Program’s work has been an ongoing professional development seminar and peer-learning forum for the superintendents of some of America’s largest and most complex urban school districts. These semi-annual seminars, which typically bring together 10-15 superintendents, are intensive, structured conversations using data and case studies to focus on individual and cross-district strategies to meet the major challenges confronting urban school leaders.  For the last several years, the retreats have been organized around system-level questions regarding human capital and educator quality: How do districts attract, develop, and retain the talent they need? How do they know what’s working in their systems and what’s not? How can school systems better organize to support great instruction?