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EDUCATION ALLIANCE CHAMPIONS PRINCIPAL FOR A DAY EVENT WITH LOCAL BUSINESS LEADERS
05-10-2010
Educating local business leaders about public education
(May 2010 - RENO, Nev.) - The Education Alliance of Washoe County, in partnership with the Washoe County School District (WCSD), is planning to educate local business leaders with a job shadowing event at local high, middle and elementary schools. The business leaders will job shadow the school principals on Thursday, May 13, 2010.
Fifteen businesses and their leaders will participate: Mark Foree, Truckee Meadows Water Authority; Craig Etem, Lionel, Sawyer and Collins; Rob Barrett and Roxanne Spring, Microsoft Licensing; Idora Silver, I.Silver Management Group, Inc; Karen Barsell, United Way of Northern Nevada; Mike Pomi, The Children's Cabinet; Dean Whellams, Q&D Construction; Stephanie Lepori, Silver Legacy Resort Casino; Craig Hulse, Washoe County School District; Dr. Maria Sheehan and Paula Lee Hobson, Truckee Meadows Community College; Michelle Sanchez-Bickley, Renown Health; Mark Crawford, Northern Nevada Medical Center; Bill Creekbaum, Reno Rotary; and Jim Pfrommer, Pfrommer & McCune, Ltd are participating in this event. They have been paired up with the principals from Sierra Vista, Hunsberger, Booth, Pleasant Valley, Van Gorder, Damonte Ranch, Donner Springs, Wooster, Vaughn, O'Brien, Billinghurst, Hug, Reed, Sparks Middle School, and Risley.
"We are thrilled to provide this experience for business leaders to participate in the day-to-day activities at our schools," stated Denise Hedrick, Executive Director at the Education Alliance of Washoe County. "The WCSD principals will be able to share information about their school, the district and their professions with these business leaders. The principals do so much to keep the children in Washoe County safe and well educated."
Business leaders and principals will start the day off at the school. The business leaders will shadow the principal in all their duties that day. These may include staff meetings; classroom observation and evaluation; bus duty; interactions with students, teachers, and parents; administrative tasks; and lunch-room duty. At 2:30 p.m., all of the business leaders and principals will meet at the Microsoft Licensing offices for snacks and a debriefing session. Microsoft has generously agreed to host this session. Feedback will be gathered and evaluated for future participants and events.
This event is modeled after a program hosted by the San Francisco Unified School District and introduced by Alice Heiman of Alice Heiman, LLC. A pilot program with three business leaders and schools was completed by the WCSD Communications Office in the spring of 2009. Based on the success of the pilot program, there was a desire to expand the program.
About the Education Alliance of Washoe County: Our mission is to foster education excellence in Washoe County through a community and education partnership that provides leadership, advocacy, programming and targeted financial support. The Education Alliance fosters educational excellence through a variety of educational programming while implementing and sustaining a comprehensive development plan to raise funds through annual giving, endowment, major gifts, special projects and public grants.
For more information about the Education Alliance, please contact Denise Hedrick, Executive Director, at 353-5533 or visit http://www.ed-alliance.org/.
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