Females in student and administrative leadership

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One of the wonderful things we have in this country is school choice. We have single-gendered schools. We have co-ed schools, boarding schools, day schools. We have all kinds of schools. And when I think about education today, I think about what is an optimum match for a child. There are some girls or boys that need single-gendered schools. It's where they're going to flower and come into their own, because they have opportunities that they may not have in a co-ed school. For other children, they need co-ed schools. And still there's that third group of children who could thrive anywhere. But I think it's very important that schools encourage across gender lines all kinds of children to be leaders and give them opportunities to showcase their talents, whether in a single-gender school or a co-ed school. Both kinds of education benefit different children and benefit the same children in different ways. One of the things I think parents can do especially with our daughters is give them concrete examples and role models that are positive. So often girls, because of the media and because of what they see in advertisements, want to emulate the wrong kinds of qualities, and want to develop those qualities in themselves. One of the things we have to do is expose girls to positive attributes, different body images, different kinds of intellect, different kinds of styles, different kinds of careers, and different kinds of strengths, so that they see the world is wide open for them to make choices. And when they begin to understand that, they make better choices for themselves, and their innate abilities to lead and to thrive in schools begins to change. It can be a real paradigm shift when we give them better examples.

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Now starting her forty-second year, Reveta Bowers is the Head of School at The Center for Early Education, an urban pre-school through 6th grade Los Angeles independent school with 538 students. Devoted to children and education, Ms. Bowers served and has served on a number of boards. She is currently on Board of Overseers of the UCLA Healthcare System, on the founding board of the African American Board Leadership Institute and the board of the FEDCO Charitable Foundation. She just completed serving as Chair Emeritus of the Board of Directors of the California Community Foundation. A past president and former secretary of The Educational Records Bureau Board, Reveta Bowers was also a member of the Advisory Board to the Klingenstein Center at Teacher’s College for ten years. She served as an outside director on the Board of Directors of the Walt Disney Company for ten years and is a former member of the Harvard-Westlake, Brentwood and Windward School boards. Reveta was on the Council for Spiritual and Ethical Education board, and the boards of the National Association of Principals of Schools for Girls and the Country Day Headmaster’s Association. She served as a trustee and treasurer of the NAIS Board, and as past president of the California Association of Independent Schools. For the past thirteen years she has also been on the faculty of the NAIS Institute for New Heads where she serves as the Lead Faculty member. One of her proudest career moments was receiving the NAIS Diversity Leadership Award in 2009. She has had a long and rewarding career in independent schools and finds her work with organizations supporting education, students, parents, community and Board work to be continually inspiring.

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