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Dr. Karen Mapp to Present at the Teacher Leader and Executive Leadership Academies
HELENA – Superintendent Arntzen welcomes Dr. Karen Mapp to Montana’s Teacher Leader and Executive Leadership Academies’ virtual sessions on November 3-5, 2022. The theme for both Academies is “Family and Community as Partners in Education.” In this session, participants will:
- Learn how collaboration with families strengthens student success
- Learn how to engage families and community partners to encourage school improvement
- Improve transparency in student learning
“Parents are our first teachers and our families are our first community,” said Superintendent Elsie Arntzen. “I am thankful that Dr. Mann is sharing her knowledge on partnerships in education as it reflects my Montana Hope initiative of family and community engagement in education. This session will give teachers more tools to put our Montana students and families first!”
Karen L. Mapp, Ed.D., is a senior lecturer on education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) and the faculty director of the Education Policy and Management Master's Program. Over the past twenty years, Mapp's research and practice focus has been on the cultivation of partnerships among families, community members and educators that support student achievement and school improvement. She is a founding member of the District Leaders Network on Family and Community Engagement as well as the National Family and Community Engagement Working Group, is a trustee of the Hyams Foundation in Boston, MA, and is also on the board of the National Association for Family, School, and Community Engagement (NAFSCE) and the Institute for Educational Leadership (IEL) in Washington, DC.
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