English educational expert to speak

The international leadership chair at the University of London will outline how every school can be great during a lecture on Wednesday, Sept. 26.

Dr. David Hopkins will discuss “Every School a Great School: Realizing the Potential of System Leadership” from 9:30 a.m. to noon at the Ventura County Office of Education Conference and Education Services Center in Camarillo. The Ventura County Office of Education and the California Lutheran University School of Education are sponsoring the lecture.

Hopkins, whose latest book has the same title, asserts that educational leaders can achieve success through personalized learning, professional teaching, networking/innovation and intelligent accountability. He will illustrate how a system-wide response that seeks to re-establish a balance between national prescription and school reform would work.

As the inaugural HSBC Bank iNet chair in International Leadership, he supports the work of iNet, the international arm of the Specialist Schools Trust and the Leadership Centre at the Institute of Education at the University of London. Hopkins has consulted and lectured on teacher quality and education reform in more than 20 countries.

The lecture is open to the public. It is the second presentation in the Michael A. Moffitt Educational Leadership Lecture Series, which was started last year in memory of the late CLU alumnus with the support of his wife, Karla Lysdal-Moffitt. The goal is to provide students and educators with the opportunity to learn about educational leadership from seasoned professionals.

The center is located at 5100 Adolfo Road. Tickets are $30 and can be purchased online at http://workshops.vcss.k12.ca.us.

The lecture series is also sponsoring a free follow-up dialogue with Hopkins from 6 to 7 p.m. on Sept. 26 in CLU’s Overton Hall on Memorial Parkway in Thousand Oaks.

For more information or to RSVP for the CLU dialogue, contact Kristine Calara at (805) 493-3837 or soealum@callutheran.edu.