CTL will co-sponsor the 2008 China Top High School International Education Forum

December 1, 2008

CTL will co-sponsor the 2008 China Top High School International Education Forum in Beijing, China, December 14 and 15.  Principals of China's 400 top performing high schools are expected to attend.  The forum is sponsored by the Foundation College of the China Scholarship Council of China's Sichuan University, and co-sponsored by CTL, The Educational Mechanism Sub-Commission of the Chinese Society of Education, and the US-China Culture Exchange Foundation, a Lexington Kentucky-based organization that promotes and facilitates academic exchange opportunities between American and Chinese scholars.

The forum will focus on the attributes and characteristics of effective instructional leadership. CTL Founder and CEO Dr. Linda Hargan and CTL President and COO Dr. Deborah Walker will attend.  Dr. Walker will make a formal presentation to attendees. Mr. Leon Smith, principal of Washington County (Kentucky) High School, will also attend and make a presentation.  Washington County is one of 21 rural Kentucky schools participating in a United States Department of Education Striving Readers adolescent literacy grant for which CTL is providing all professional development on its adolescent literacy model.

CTL was selected to co-host the Beijing forum because of its work in the area of improved educational leadership on the secondary level, and its extensive experience working with educators and school leaders in the United States and abroad.

Following the forum, Chinese administrators will visit schools in the U.S., including Washington County High School, which has demonstrated high-level implementation in the Striving Readers project. Visiting administrators will observe teacher practice and discuss approaches to ongoing teacher learning and instructional improvement.

Here's a link to the Forum's website: http://english.topschoolcn.org/

For more information, contact:
Dr. Deborah Walker
v: 502.895.9500 x328