Norm Rice pushing charter schools

[Hannah Bell]

Learn how Innovation Schools are changing education!

Washington Policy Center's 2010 Education Lunch

Friday, February 5th | Noon - 1:30pm
The Westin Seattle - 1900 5th Ave
$35 ($30 for WPC supporters) | $250 table of 8

Featuring Rob Stein, Principal of Manual High School in Denver
(introduced by Manual High graduate and former Seattle Mayor Norman Rice)

Register Today!

Please join Washington Policy Center for our 2010 Education Lunch. This year’s event will focus on the promise of Innovation Schools, an education reform favored by the Obama Administration’s competitive grant program known as Race to the Top. The Innovation Schools model would allow Washington State school leaders to turn around failing schools. Keynote speaker is Rob Stein, principal of Manual High School in Denver, a leader in Innovation Schools.

Former Seattle Mayor and Manual High School graduate Norman Rice will introduce Stein!

Denver's Manual High School was closed in 2006 for being the lowest performing school in the state. Principal Rob Stein was hired in 2007 to re-open Manual High. Come and meet Rob Stein, the educator responsible for one of the most amazing public school turnarounds. Using budget and staffing tools denied to public school principals in Washington State, but allowed by Colorado's Innovation Schools Act of 2008, Principal Stein was able to take Manual High from complete failure to a top performing school in Denver.

Before becoming principal of Manual High, Rob Stein was Head of School for Graland Country Day School, one of Denver's highest-rated private schools. Mr. Stein is an adjunct professor at the University of Colorado and has taught in the fields of teacher education, school leadership and school reform at Denver University, Harvard Graduate School of Education, and Prescott College. He has published, presented and consulted on school leadership, organizational development, research-based practice and school change. Mr. Stein holds degrees from Middlebury College, Stanford University and Harvard University.

Last year's event sold out, so register today!

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