1. K - 16 and Women

2. Texas Faculty Women’s Forum March 30 - March 31 Austin, TX

3. Jane Close Conoley Dean of Education Texas A&M University

4. Forum: All Hot Topics! u Child care u Arts u Grants u Technology u Health benefits u Diversity u Learning styles u Mentoring u Sexual Violence

5. u Women are increasingly represented in the elementary principalship but still in the great minority as high school leaders and in the superintendency u Women are the great majority of elementary teachers and about 60% of high school teachers

6. u Challenges for teacher recruitment and retention are critical u Societal forces make many traditional schooling approaches inappropriate u Public perceptions of school effectiveness and safety are disconnected from school realities

7. u Many districts still dominated by narrowly educated school boards u Academic priorities difficult to maintain in culture of confrontation u In some districts teachers can escape continuing professional development

8. u WOMEN MAY BE ABANDONING PUBLIC PRIMARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION

9. Schools Need u A DEFINING SENSE OF PURPOSE u LEADERS –WHO WILL TRANSFORM CURRENT PRACTICE v make democracy a reality within school walls

10. WHAT LEADERS MUST DO u Develop a community of purpose u Create strategic alliances u Create shared visions

11. COMMUNITY Engagement, equality, trust, tolerance, cooperation

12. THE BASIS OF COMMUNITY u HEALTHY ORGANIZATIONS u RECOGNITION OF THE NEED FOR PARTNERSHIPS u SHARED VALUES AND GOALS

13. Consider primary and secondary schools

14. HEALTHY ORGANIZATIONS  Appropriately Autonomous Staff  Many Opportunities for Self Development  Sense of Belonging to the Organization  Recognition for Successful Employees

15. Consider primary and secondary schools

16. HEALTHY ORGANIZATIONS  Attractive, Interesting, and Satisfying Jobs  Clear, Challenging, Attainable Goals  Adequate Resources  No Constraints to Performance

17. THE NEED FOR PARTNERSHIPS TO ACCOMPLISH IMPORTANT GOALS

18. BLINDING FLASHES OF THE OBVIOUS u BFO’S

19. BFO’S u 93/100 being born in the world are people of color u Texas will be a majority minority state within our lifetimes u Our futures depend on involving historically marginalized people u Access to success is NOT equally distributed

20. BFO’s u 40,000 teachers were needed last year in Texas u 2,500,000 NATIONWIDE TEACHERS WILL BE NEEDED IN THE NEXT DECADE

21. “THE DOG BARKS BUT THE CARAVAN MOVES ON” Persian proverb

22. SHARED VALUES AND GOALS: THE PATH TO A COMMUNITY OF PURPOSE

23. MANDATES FOR UNIVERSITY FACULTY THE NEXT CENTURY u Value teaching at every level u Support democracy at every level u Be nurturers of the educational enterprise

24. MANDATES FOR THE NEXT CENTURY u Form partnerships with teachers that are instrumental for children and young people

25. MANDATES FOR THE NEXT CENTURY u Assert the value of the young -- aware of the cultural constructions that make us callous toward their experience.

26. “… I can see in her eyes she doesn’t like me. She doesn’t look at me like the other children.”

27. PROCESSES OF COMMUNITY BUILDING u Courage u Collaboration u Reflection u Inquiry u Integration u Persistence u Experimentation

28. WHEN ALL IS SAID AND DONE, MORE IS SAID THAN DONE

29. The Future of Learning Organizations u From traditional hierarchies u Through autonomous units u To networked communities

30. Classrooms as nodes on a universal web of information

31. Classrooms as centers for academic and social emotional learning

32. “I’m with my grandma now. My mother hits me and my sister with a belt too hard. It makes marks on my skin.”

33. Un solo leno nunca arde.