Annual Superintendents' Conference

Date Saver - October 23-24, 2008 (dated changed)

Closing the Achievement Gap
(from the 30th Annual Superintendents' Conference)

Presentations from the Conference

Keynote Presentation - Dr. Ronald Ferguson
Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy
Harvard University

• Understanding the Achievement Gap Challenge--Reasons for Cautious Optimism
• A Flock of Poems for Teachers

How To Raise Reading Achievement - Cynthia Shanahan
Professor, Literacy, Language, & Culture
Director of Teacher Education
University of Illinois at Chicago