MISSOURI
Front Row (L to R): Kathleen Boyle-Dalen, Jennifer Waddell, Pat
MacDonald, Juan Carlos Gonzalez.
Back Row: Gus Jacob (Coordinator), Marla Wasserman, Abby Thorman,
Kim Smith, Tim Decker, Lisa Gruman, Clark Mershon.
Missing from photo: Deidre Anderson, Eva Tucker-Nevels
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. 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.
MISSOURI COORDINATOR
Arthur (Gus) Jacob
Assistant Clinical Professor
Urban Leadership and Policy
Studies in Education
University of Missouri – Kansas City
School of Education
615 E 52nd Street
Kansas City, MO 64110
(816) 235-2454
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 8 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.