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La Evolución Del Rol Del Director Escolar En Tiempos De Covid-19, José M. Torres

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Illinois Mathematics And Science Academy: Reunión Nacional De Profesores Prepatec 2020, José M. Torres

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LEGISLATIVE MANDATE 1

The primary role of the Academy shall be to offer a challenging education for students talented in the areas of mathematics and science.

LEGISLATIVE MANDATE 2

The Academy shall also carry a responsibility to stimulate further excellence for all Illinois schools in mathematics and science.

“Designing Conditions For Talented Students To Be Creative, Ethical, And Scientifically Minded”, José M. Torres

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In this keynote speech, I describe three exponential technologies affecting our present and future world and make the case for how these advances in technology require new skills that go beyond content knowledge. Following the description and illustration of exponential technologies, I paint a vivid picture of three former students of the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy (IMSA) who can serve as icons for how we can nurture the next generation of creative, ethical, and scientifically minded persons. Through their individual vignettes, I describe how IMSA creates the conditions to nurture the most important skills and predispositions necessary now …

Issf 2018 Opening Ceremony, José M. Torres

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For the past 14 year, the International Student Science Fair has convened talented students and their amazing teachers and school leaders to share scientific knowledge and develop life long friendships. This year, we have 90 Students, 30 Teachers, and 32 Principals or school leaders representing 18 countries here in the USA! Five continents are reflected here in this room!

The theme for this year's ISSF is "to significantly influence life on our planet through cooperation and collaboration."

The phrase, “significantly influence life on our planet,” has its origin in IMSA’s philosophy coined by our founder, Leon Lederman, Nobel Prize Physicist, …

Senior Recognition 2015, José M. Torres

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Greetings parents, family members, PAC, Faculty & staff and Class of 2015! Welcome and congratulations on reaching this milestone.

Seniors, over the past three years, you’ve developed skills that you didn’t have; learned content that you didn’t know; and nurtured relationships with roommates, wing mates, hall mates, and classmates.

You started out as strangers. And found out the truth of the saying, “There are no strangers here, only friends we haven’t met yet.” And today and over the past few days, you have felt a wide range of feelings.

Nurturing The Next Generation Of Discoverers, Creators And Thinkers, José M. Torres

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Over 154,000 babies are born in Illinois each year. By the end of my talk today, 10 children will be born. These children will graduate high school in 2036.

Imagine the kind of world these children will inherit.

How do we prepare them for this future world?

Consider just three exponential technologies that are affecting us today and imagine where these technological improvements may be in the year 2036.

“Living The Imsa Values: Respecting Our Cultural Differences” : Remarks To All School Assembly, José M. Torres

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Last September, during Labor Day weekend, I took my 6-year old grandson, Malachi bowling. Of course, we had to have the bumpers up against the railing, which helped me immensely with my own gutter balls. During one of the games, when Malachi threw his ball it got kind of stuck between our lane and the one next to ours. The ball was almost at the other lane when I instantaneously dashed toward the ball. I didn’t realize, or had forgotten, that the lanes are greased and very slippery. Upon crossing the line, I immediately went up about 3 feet in …

Convocation 2016: Opening Remarks, José M. Torres

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"Greetings! I’d like to welcome our distinguished guests: member of our Board of Trustees, Leslie Juby; President of the IMSA Fund Board of Directors, Ross Hemphill; our elected officials, State Representative Stephanie Kifowit, Mayor Tom Weisner and representing State Representative Linda Chapa LaVia, Lillian Perry; our distinguished Ambassadors and Emeriti; Founding President and President Emerita, Stephanie Pace Marshall, who in June of this year was installed as the (first female) Chancellor of the Lincoln Academy of Illinois; our distinguished faculty, new and returning; our staff, including Residential Life, Professional Field Services and everyone else; and the Class of 2019, the …

Community Learning Day 2016, José M. Torres

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On August 25, 1986 the charter faculty and staff met for the first time at IMSA. Imagine the scene: No students. No specific curriculum, nor SSL's. No history. Never had a Community Learning Day! No nothing! Only a promise that we would be better than the alternative.

Let’s take a moment right now to share with 2/3 persons sitting near you about what might have been going through your mind and heart if you had been here on that first Community Learning Day in 1986—a little time travel!

Today, we are gathered for our 30th Community Learning Day! Welcome to …

Convocation 2015: Opening Remarks, José M. Torres

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“Life is just a minute, only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon you, can’t refuse it, didn’t seek it, didn’t choose it, But it’s up to you to use it. You must suffer if you lose it. Give an account if you abuse it. Just a tiny little minute, But eternity is in it.” ~Dr. Benjamin E. Mays

Suburban Leaders Who Have Made A Difference: Jose Torres, José M. Torres

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This week we are featuring Dr. Jose Torres, the president of Aurora-based Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy. Torres was superintendent of Elgin Area School District U-46 from 2008 to 2014 and has served in various leadership roles, including regional superintendent/area instruction officer in Chicago Public Schools, and as the only superintendent on the Federal Equity and Excellence Commission of the United States Department of Education. Torres was one of three educators nationwide to receive the 2014 Dr. Effie H. Jones Humanitarian Award from the AASA, the school superintendents association.

Education Is Key, José M. Torres

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It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends herself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in …

Leadership Lessons For The 21st Century: Superintendents' Perspectives, José M. Torres

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Celebrating 50 years in the educational leadership business, the Institute for Educational Leadership (IEL) asked practitioners from around the country, including dozens of Superintendents, to share their leadership lessons. The responses culminated in ten leadership lessons. We invited two former Superintendents, Dr. Clifford B. Janey and Dr. José M. Torres, to share their reflections of how IEL's leadership lessons connected to their own practice. What they told us is important for all school leaders to know.

IEL Leadership Lesson: Leaders dream of a better world. They ground a shared vision in audacious possibility and practicality.