CONTACT: Denise
Hedrick
Education Alliance
775-353-5533
FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
EDUCATION
ALLIANCE ORGANIZES PRINCIPAL FOR A DAY EVENT WITH LOCAL BUSINESS
LEADERS
Educating
local business leaders about public education
(April
2011 - 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, April 21.
Thirty-eight
businesses and their leaders will participate:
Liza
Schumacher-Maupin, The First Tee Northern Nevada; Tim Lukas, Holland
Hart; Dave Bianchi, Northwestern Mutual Financial Network; Carlee
Ferrari, Dickson Realty; John Mulligan, Avansino, Melarky, Knobel &
Mulligan; Carol Moore, Reno Rotary; Angie Taylor, Greater Light
Christian Center; Kim McNamara, Mount Rose Ski; Blain Claypool,
Renown South Meadows; Bill Creekbaum, Smith Barney; Mike Magera, IGT;
Paul Diflo, IGT; Valerie Clark, Clark & Associates; Peter Vogel,
Catholic Charities of Northern Nevada; David Read, Sparks Rotary;
Judi Gesh, Community; Gerald Barron, Sparks Rotary; Paul Neill,
University of Nevada, Reno; Kris Wells, AT&T; Jeff Scheneman,
Pfizer; Teri Connolly, Umpqua Bank; Sheree Garcia, Umpqua Bank; Kathy
Carrico, Nevada Small Business Development Center; John Murphy, Reno
News & Review; Steve Laden, Wells Fargo Financial Advisors; Nancy
Markee, University of Nevada, Reno; Sara Chvilicek, University of
Nevada Cooperative Extension; Lt Heidi Howe, Washoe County Sheriff's
Office; Deputy Janet Hippert, Washoe County Sheriff's Office;
Becky Petring, Nevada State Bank; Melissa Molyneaux, Colliers
International; Carolyn Barbash, NV Energy; Abel del Real, La Posada
Real; Ron James, Wild 102.9; Austin Reed, Magic 95.5; Maury Centeno,
US Bank; Jeff Marshall, Microsoft; and Jennifer Van Dyne, Microsoft
are
participating in this event.
They
have been paired up with the principals from:
Vaughn
MS; Academy of Arts, Career & Technology HS; Mathews ES; Lois
Allen ES; Lemmon Valley ES; Sparks MS; Traner MS; Winnemucca ES;
Swope MS; Sierra Vista ES; Hunsberger ES; Damonte Ranch HS; Pine MS;
Hug HS; Moss ES; Cold Springs MS; Clayton MS; Sparks HS; Pleasant
Valley ES; Taylor ES; Echo Loder ES; Billinghurst MS; Dodson ES;
Mendive MS; Warner ES; O'Brien MS; Bennett ES; Spanish Springs ES:
Mount Rose ES: Diedrichsen ES; Booth ES; Dilworth MS; Hidden Valley
ES; Donner Springs ES; Westergard ES; Van Gorder ES; Brown ES; and
Elmcrest ES.
"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 of 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 be hosted by Microsoft
Licensing at its office for refreshments followed by a debriefing
session facilitated by Mr. Guy Farmer of Unconventional Training.
Feedback will be gathered and evaluated for future participants and
events.
This
is the third time this event has been organized by the Education
Alliance. It is modeled after a program hosted by the San Francisco
Unified School District and introduced by Alice Heiman of Alice
Heiman, LLC. Plans are to continue providing this opportunity to the
business community with a future event in fall 2011.
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
www.ed-alliance.org.
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