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ReInvent Schools Las Vegas Summit Focuses On 1,100 Teachers And School
Staff Aug. 10
Program Provides Community
Services At 13 Local Schools
Mayor
Carolyn G. Goodman will welcome teachers and staff to the 2018-19 ReInvent
Schools Las Vegas Summit at Texas Station beginning at 8:30 a.m. Friday,
Aug. 10. More than 1,100 teachers and staff from 13 local schools are expected
to attend the event in the Dallas Ballroom, located at 2101 Texas Star Lane.
Others
speaking at the summit include Mayor Pro Tem Lois Tarkanian, Councilman Bob
Coffin, Councilman Cedric Crear, Clark County School District Deputy
Superintendent Diane Gullett and City Manager Scott Adams. The keynote speaker
is José Muñoz, director of the Coalition for Community Schools, an initiative of the Institute for
Educational Leadership.
“The
united effort of Reinvent Schools amplifies the values of the Coalition for
Community Schools, where the pressure of student performance doesn’t overshadow
the purpose of a community performing for them,” Muñoz said.
ReInvent
Schools Las Vegas focuses on academic achievement, expanded learning,
wraparound services, and family and community engagement at underperforming,
urban-core schools. The initiative is a unique partnership between the Clark
County School District and the city of Las Vegas, in collaboration with other
local nonprofits. ReInvent Schools are hubs for services for students, their
families and the community.
In
2016, four elementary schools launched under this model, and now nine more
schools have been named ReInvent Schools in Las Vegas. Program schools include,
J.T. McWilliams, Wendell P. Williams, Matt Kelly, Howard Hollingsworth, Robert
E. Lunt, Red Rock, Kermit R. Booker, West Preparatory Academy, Rose Warren, Bertha
Ronzone, Doris Reed, Ollie Detwiler and Arturo Cambeiro.
The
city works to supplement education through before- and after-school programming
and community partnerships designed to improve educational achievement,
attendance and graduation rates.
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