MISSOURI
Front Row (left to right): Dan Clemons, Carey Walker, Julie Ford, Linda Williams, Pam Marsh, Tricia DeGraff, Carrie Bachmeier, Matthew Broaddus, Tracy Ashley, Steve Loe, Gus Jacob (Coordinator)
Back Row (left to right): Paul Frequeau, Cecilia Green, David Ketchum
After a brief one-year hiatus, MO EPFP was re-born for the 2006-07 program year with the commitment of the University of Missouri at Kansas City. It is now in its 3rd year of operation in Kansas City. MO EPFP offers professionals in education and related fields a rich professional development experience with demonstrated capacity to enhance individual effectiveness, boost organizational performance, and strengthen the state policy infrastructure. The program prepares mid-career leaders in public and private organizations to exercise greater responsibility in creating and implementing sound public policy that assures education equity in both opportunity and outcomes. Fellows increase their awareness of how public policy is made, meet with key players in the policy-making process, and become more confident and involved in influencing this process, particularly at the local and state levels. To add to the richness of the EPFP experience in Kansas City fellows come from both Kansas and Missouri, which demands looking at policy and leadership issues through the lens of different practices in neighboring states.
MISSOURI COORDINATOR
Gus Jacob
Clinical Professor
Urban Leadership and Policy Studies in Education
School of Education
University of Missouri-Kansas City
5100 Rockhill Road
Kansas City, MO 64110-2499
(816) 235-2454
FAX (816) 235-5270
jacoba@umkc.edu
Gus Jacob currently serves in the role of Assistant Clinical Professor in the Division of Urban Leadership and Policy Studies in Education at the University of Missouri—Kansas City. Coming to UMKC 9 years ago, after 25 years as a school principal and a district office administrator, Dr. Jacob was invited to launch and direct the UMKC Principals’ Institute, working specifically with urban school districts in the Kansas City area to develop their leadership pipeline. In addition to his work at UMKC, Dr. Jacob serves as a national consultant for the Haberman Foundation which focuses on the selection of teachers and principals that are predicted to be successful working in urban schools. During his experience as both an elementary and middle school principal, Dr. Jacob had the privilege of leading one of 12 schools in the nation that launched the Basic School Network developed by, and under the direction of, Dr. Ernest Boyer, former president of the Carnegie Foundation. Most importantly, Dr. Jacob started his career as a 6th grade teacher in Kansas City, Kansas.