Fred Morton is EHS speaker
Fred Morton 
4/07/09
As schools around the region and the nation struggle to build stronger partnerships with their communities, Miami’s School of Education, Health, and Society will host a visit from a national leader who has done this for most of his career. Fred Morton has been a school teacher, principal, and superintendent for more than thirty years.
Fred Morton will speak at Miami’s Voice of America Learning Center on Wednesday, April 8, at 4:30 p.m. and on Miami’s Oxford campus on Thursday, April 9, at 4 p.m. in 419 McGuffey Hall. Both presentations are open and free of charge.
Fred Morton is noted for a variety of public school innovations but especially for his award-winning work in bringing parents, family members, and community stakeholders into participation in a broad range of school activities.
Students, educators and community members from around the region are invited to hear his motivating story about revitalizing our vision for schools and strengthening the relationships among schools, parents, and other community stakeholders. Fred Morton is now superintendent of the Henrico County Schools in Richmond, Va. and a member of the executive board of the American Association of School Administrators. He was named Virginia’s Region I Superintendent of the Year for 2009 and will soon become director of the Maggie Walker Governor’s School for International Understanding in Richmond, Va.--one of Newsweek magazines top twenty “Public Elites” among American high schools.