Grow Your Own Pathways from Teacher to the Superintendency for Women

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Event Details

Host Organization:

National Center for Grow Your Own

Public/Private:

Public

Host Org. Industry(s):

Education

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Event Description

WomenLeadingEd in partnership with the National Center for Grow Your Own are co-hosting this webinar to discuss the benefits and needs of our nation to increase the amount of women serving as superintendents and potential pathways to consider that leverage "Grow Your Own" and registered apprenticeship models. We will be joined by Superintendent Lisa Coons of the Virginia Department of Education, Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell of Oakland Unified School District in California, Dr. Julia Rafal Baer CEO and Founder of ILO Group and WomenLeadingEd as panelists and moderated by David Donaldson of the National Center for Grow Your Own. Panelists will discuss the state of the superintendency, their leadership journeys and a path forward to increase the percentage of women serving as superintendents at both the district and state level in our country.