1. California Education Leadership Summit: Ensuring Strong Leadership for our Public Schools Saturday, November 21, 2009 6:30-9:00 p.m. UCEA Convention Anaheim, California Paula A. Cordeiro, Dean and Professor School of Leadership and Education Sciences (SOLES) University of San Diego

2. During Difficult Fiscal Times Invest even more in faculty development Evaluate our partnerships and initiatives even more carefully

3. Strong Public Schools Teacher, Counselor and Administrator quality Colleges of Education role: facilitate and challenge

4. Promising Opportunities for STEM Collaboration – Education faculty – District personnel – Math, science and engineering faculty – Businesses – Nonprofits

5. My Most Notable Achievement Our district partners viewing the School of Leadership and Education Sciences (SOLES) as being very important to their districts.