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EDUCATION ALLIANCE ORGANIZES PRINCIPAL FOR THE DAY EVENT WITH LOCAL BUSINESS LEADERS
Educating local business leaders about public education
(November 2011-Reno, NV)- 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 elementary, middle, and high schools. The business leaders will job-shadow the school principals on Tuesday, November 15, 2011. Thirty-five businesses and their leaders will participate:
Liza Schumacher-Maupin, The First Tee of Northern Nevada; Sarah Sommers, Solutions at Work; Terry Vanscoy, Umpqua Bank; Tray Abney, The Chamber; Ron James, Cumulus Media KWYL-FM/Wild 102.9; Jim Newman, Holland & Hart LLP; Courtney Pino, Applied Business Solutions LLC; Brad Woodring, NV Energy; Arne Hoel, Mercedes Benz of Reno/Reno Buick GMC Cadillac; Steve Smith, Computer Land Reno; Lindsay Anderson, WCSD Government Affairs; Siobhan McAndrew, Reno Gazette-Journal; Michelle Nichols, Global Hug Your Kids Day; Forrest Bietz, Community; Beate Weinert, Washoe County Library System; Ed Keppelmann, UNR College of Science; Robin Krueger, New 2U Computers; Pat Hickey, Assemblyman; Norman O. Olsen, Reno Downtown Rotary Club; Russ Ruiz, Microsoft Licensing; Larry Harvey, John Ascuaga's Nugget Resort & Casino; Alex C. Woodley, City of Reno; Casey Rogers, Boys & Girls Club Truckee Meadows; Coleman Warren, Microsoft Licensing; Chris Foy, Wells Fargo Advisors; Jaqueline Cashmere, WCSD Community Engagement; Betty Hicks, Lambda Master Chapter of Beta Sigma Phi; Stacy Kendall, Renown Health; Harvey C. Fennell, Dickson Realty; Scott Walquist, KPS3 Marketing; Tom Clark, Holland & Hart; Daryl Drake, Drake Realty; Hillary Schauss, Rotary Club of Incline Village; Don Hopkins, IGT; and Helen O'Brien, Community.
They have been paired up with the principals from:
Desert Heights ES, Maxwell ES, Verdi ES, Depoali MS, Washoe Inspire Academy, McQueen HS, Risley ES, Dilworth MS, Reno HS, Mathews ES, Sierra Vista ES, Lemmon Valley ES, Spanish Springs ES, TMCC HS, Peavine ES, Palmer ES, Reed HS, North Valleys HS, Westergard ES, Caughlin Ranch ES, Drake ES, Shaw MS, Stead ES, Billinghurst MS, Warner ES, Donner Springs ES, Lenz ES, Swope MS, Vaughn MS, Clayton MS, O'Brien MS, Elmcrest ES, Incline HS, Damonte Ranch HS, and Anderson ES.
"The response from our business and community leaders continues to fuel this collaborative effort" stated Denise Hedrick, Executive Director of the Education Alliance of Washoe County. "Participants, administrators, business and community leaders leave the day with new insights, understanding and strengthened relationships."
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 fourth time this event has been organized by the Education Alliance. Previous participants have found this event to be an eye-opening investment of their time. Plans are to continue providing this opportunity to the business community with a future event in 2012.
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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 (775) 353-5533 or visit www.ed-alliance.org
About the Washoe County School District: The Washoe County School District includes the Reno/Sparks metropolitan area, Incline Village, Gerlach, Empire and Wadsworth Nevada. The District provides each of its 63,000 students with a superior education in a safe and challenging environment and is committed to graduate every child career and college ready.
For more information please visit www.washoecountyschools.org. Follow us on twitter at WCSDTweet
Washoe County School District
425 East Ninth Street
Reno, NV 89512
