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November 5, 2004 • Volume 13 Number 5
LSOE Hosts Leadership Summit, El Salvador Talk
The Lynch School of Education hosts two major events this month, one an international summit on educational leadership continuing today and tomorrow, the other a symposium reflecting on the 15th anniversary of the Jesuit assassinations in El Salvador.
Sponsored in collaboration with England's National College for School Leadership, the educational leadership summit taking place at LSOE and Boston locations invites teachers, administrators, parents and school personnel to discuss how to transform schools into dynamic, moral and sustainable learning communities.
The list of featured speakers includes Boston Mayor Thomas Menino and Boston Public Schools Superintendent Thomas Payzant, with Thomas More Brennan Professor Andy Hargreaves of the Lynch School among several noted experts in educational leadership presenting keynote addresses, including Spelman College President Beverly Tatum, World Bank Senior Education Specialist Juan Manuel Moreno, and Deborah Meier, co-principal of Boston's Mission Hill School.
Other Lynch School faculty members speaking at the summit include Prof. Marilyn Cochran-Smith, Research Prof. Irwin Blumer, Assoc. Prof. Patrick McQuillan and assistant professors Audrey Friedman and Janice Jackson.
This is the second of three planned international summits on educational leadership, the the final one slated for next year in Warwick, England.
For more on the event, see www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/soe/leadership_summit_04/index.html.
Fifteen years ago this November, six Jesuit priests, along with their housekeeper and her teenage daughter, were killed by members of the Salvadoran military on the University of Central America campus in San Salvador. The murders elicited international outrage and attention to the civil conflict in El Salvador.
On Nov. 15, former US Ambassador to El Salvador Robert White, now president of the Center for International Policy, will present the keynote address for the Lynch School-sponsored symposium, "Human Rights Challenges in an Age of Terror: The Jesuit Assassinations Remembered and the Future Envisoned," to be held at 4:30 p.m. in the Heights Room of Corcoran Commons.
Responding to White's remarks will be a panel with University Chancellor J. Donald Monan, SJ, who took an active role in helping press the Salvadoran government to bring the killers to justice; Lynch School Associate Dean M. Brinton Lykes, whose research examines the impact of state-sponsored violence; and BC Law School International Human Rights Program Director Daniel Kanstroom.
The discussion will be moderated by Margaret O'Brien Flatley Professor of Catholic Theology David Hollenbach, SJ.
For more information, e-mail coquillo@bc.edu.
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