coe-staff: Feedback Requested for EDLD Candidate David Liebowitz

[Jennifer McGovney]

The Ed Leadership search committee would like to thank everyone who took time out of their busy schedules to meet with candidate David Liebowitz, and/or attend his colloquium.

If you were unable to attend his colloquium, you can view the recording here: https://youtu.be/lfU5j4dVqAY

Please provide your feedback on the candidate by completing our survey here: https://oregon.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5zfSQvl4ad7hN8F

The survey will stay open until Monday, January 29. I have also attached Dr. Liebowitz's CV to this email. Thank you again for your participation in this important process.


From: Jennifer McGovney
Sent: Monday, January 22, 2018 8:20 AM
To: coe-staff <coe-staff at lists.uoregon.edu>
Subject: Reminder: EMPL Faculty Search Candidate Colloquium TODAY

Good Morning,

Today is the second of three colloquium presentations by candidates for Educational Methodology, Policy, and Leadership's tenure-track faculty search. Please join David Liebowitz today at 10:30am in Lokey Ed 119 for a 1-hour presentation and a 30-minute Q&A session. Coffee and snacks will be provided. Dr. Liebowitz's CV is attached.

Responding to Shifting Challenges Faced by School Leaders: From Formative Assessments to Bathroom Fires

The tasks of school leadership have become more and more complex, especially in schools facing increasingly concentrated levels of need. As a result of waning legal and political enthusiasm for school integration policies and growing levels of family income inequality, public schools have become more segregated by income and unequal in their outcomes for poor and minority students. At the same time, students' academic and social skill development has never been more important to their future success. Schools serving large concentrations of low-income students, and the adults working in them, are asked to accomplish a dizzying array of goals. Principals must lead and manage schools towards those goals with little training, less support and weak evidence on what works. Nevertheless, emerging strategies from practice suggest that school leaders can make choices that meaningfully improve organizational effectiveness and student outcomes. In this talk, I draw on original empirical research highlighting the growing challenges schools face and on practical insights to overcome some of these challenges gained as a principal in a low-income, urban community. I close with suggestions to build these leadership competencies in current and future school leaders.

David Liebowitz is a Policy Analyst at the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development. He works on the School Resources Review team, which provides policy analysis and advice on the effective use of financial, physical and human resources in OECD school systems. David recently completed five years of service as a middle school principal in a low-income community in Massachusetts. Prior to his work as a principal, David was a policy advisor to the Massachusetts Secretary of Education and the New York State Commissioner of Education, a Graduate Fellow at the Center for Education Policy Research, and a middle school English teacher. David has published work on the effects of the end of school desegregation, student assignment plans, and human capital policies. He holds a doctorate in Education Policy, Leadership and Instructional Practice and Master's degrees in School Leadership and in Learning and Teaching from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He earned his undergraduate degree in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University.

Jennifer McGovney
Administrative Program Assistant
Educational Methodology, Policy, and Leadership
102 Lokey Education
5267 University of Oregon | Eugene, OR 97403
p: 541-346-5171 | f: 541-346-5174

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