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Cahn Fellows and Alumni!
CAHN BOARD REPORT: Israel Soto 2006 CAHN FELLOW AND FORMER P.S. 57 PRINCIPAL ISRAEL SOTO JOINS THE CAHN FELLOWS PROGRAM BOARD OF DIRECTORS
After years as principal of the Crescent School in the Bronx, Israel Soto began his retirement at the end of the 2012 school year. Before the summer’s end, Soto would become the newest board member of the Cahn Fellows Program and rekindle his commitment and passion for the program during its tenth anniversary year. [Read the story]
CAHN FACULTY BULLETIN: Ellie Drago-Severson
HELPING EDUCATORS GROW: STRATEGIES AND PRACTICES FOR LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
How can we prepare practicing and aspiring education leaders for the complex, adaptive challenges they face? In Helping Educators Grow, Cahn Faculty Advisor and Teachers College Professor of Education Ellie Drago-Severson presents a new approach to leadership development. Too often, she argues, we teach leadership development the same way we teach world history: with just the facts. Instead, we need to create professional learning environments that invite educational leaders to experience the conditions that support adult growth, even as they are learning about them. [Read the story]
ALUMNI PROFILE: Mark Cannizzaro
FORMER PRINCIPAL OF FRANK D. PAULO INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL
NAMED CSA EVP
2009 Cahn Fellow Mark Cannizzaro now represents the collective bargaining unit for New York City’s 6,000 principals, supervisors and administrators. In the Alumni Spotlight, Cannizzaro discusses his new leadership role and shares how he and his Cahn Ally, Mark Reinhold, developed technology solutions during their Cahn Fellowship year that significantly improved instructional practices at Paulo Intermediate School in Staten Island. [
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CHALLENGE PROJECT SPOTLIGHT: Randy Asher
BUILDING STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS AND
MAXIMIZING ALUMNI RESOURCES AT BROOKLYN TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL
2010 Cahn Fellow Randy Asher, Principal of Brooklyn Technical High School, transformed the nation’s largest public school with a $21-million dollar fiscal campaign. As part of his Cahn challenge project, Asher and his school cabinet developed a model to drive Alumni funding opportunities to improve the school, student and faculty services. Asher not only accomplished his challenge project goals for Tech, he also trained his Cahn Ally Crystal Bonds and another assistant principal to become school leaders of specialized high schools. [
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THE ALLIES CORNER: Adam Boxer
IMPLEMENTING PROFESSIONAL LEARNING COMMUNITIES
AT THOMAS EDISON HIGH SCHOOL
Helping teachers move from simply having good meetings to great collaborations was the focus of 2011 Cahn Ally and Assistant Principal Adam Boxer when he began his Cahn Challenge Project under the direction of his Cahn Fellow and Principal Anthony Barbetta. When Barbetta’s leadership moved to Townsend Harris High School in the second year of implementation, this Cahn Ally had to work closely with his new principal and his teachers to continue the cultural changes for adult learning made during their fellowship year. [
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