LOS ANGELES — The Executive Director of the UCLA School Management Program (SMP), Dr. Dan Chernow, will be a featured presenter next month at the 17th Annual Superintendent’s Leadership Institute, a program organized by The Education Alliance, a department at Brown University that has been promoting educational change in the U.S. since 1975 in an effort to create equal opportunities for student success.

The Institute, which will be held at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, May 4-6, 2005, will bring together more than 100 Superintendents from school districts throughout the northeast and other regions.

Sponsored by The Education Alliance, Northeast and Islands Regional Educational Laboratory, this year’s institute is themed "Leadership for Student Learning: Building Organizational Capacity For Instructional Improvement."

Dr. Chernow, whose professional background includes being a secondary school teacher, a college instructor, a corporate executive, and a member of the California State Board of Education, will be joined at the institute by another featured presenter, Dr. Richard Elmore, senior research fellow at the Consortium for Policy Research in Education at Harvard University.

In addition, Dr. Chernow and Dr. Pat Martinez-Miller, UCLA School Management Program’s faculty director, will train groups of superintendents on UCLA SMP’s method of classroom walk-through visits for peer feedback. Classroom visits will also be made to local Rhode Island schools.

SMP has worked with public school teachers and school administrators since 1992 in an effort to improve the quality of public education.