The NALEO Education Leadership Initiative (NELI) helps increase the educational attainment of students by providing Latino school board members with professional and leadership development and networking services. The NELI cirriculum deepens governance skills through integrated strategies
that include increasing the effectiveness of policy makers. NELI conveys research-based best practices in areas such as:
- Board Governance
- Standards Reform
- Leadership in Latino achievement
- English Language Learners instruction; and
- Teacher Quality
Improving Higher Education: NELI Policy Institutes
As part of a long-term NELI program to foster more effective higher education policy and increase the number of Latino college graduates, we will be conducting the following Policy Institute & Training in the upcoming weeks:
Upcoming Training: NALEO National Institute on School Governance
March 5-7, 2010 | Phoenix. Arizona
The NALEO Educational Fund invites you to examine models in which Boards of Education and local education agencies have developed innovative strategies to serve Latino students, particularly English Language Learners. Join with other school board colleagues from across the nation in a discussion on how you too can cultivate a purposeful, vertically integrated model of leadership that begins at the school board level, while fostering student success in the classroom.
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6th Annual National Summit on the State of Latino Education
September 27-29, 2010 | Washington, DC
The Summit will provide a preschool to graduate studies (P-20) framework for tackling the pressing policy and governance challenges facing education leaders across the country. As a participant,
you will have access to leading educaiton experts from the public, private and non-profit sectors
and will engage in structured discussions on topics of national consequence in this new era of
American education, such as the need for more Latinos in the STEM professions or the academic achievement of English Language Learners. The increased role of the federal government in funding education serves as the context for the Summit conversation.
