Fri Feb 13, 2009 8:00 AM
Featured Speakers
Joel Klein, Chancellor, New York City Department of Education
Alberto Carvalho, Superintendent, Miami-Dade County Public Schools
and Panelists
Frances Maclaughlin, Senior Director, The Broad Foundation
Jody Spiro, Senior Program Officer, The Wallace Foundation
Bob Wise, President, Alliance for Excellent Education, Former Governor of West Virginia
Charles Hiteshew, Executive Vice President, America’s Promise Alliance
Norman Atkins, Founder & Board Chair, Uncommon Schools and Founder & CEO, Teacher U
Andrew Rotherham, Co-Founder & Co-Director, Education Sector
William E. Milliken, Founder & Vice Chairman, Communities in Schools and Author of The Last Dropout: Stop the Epidemic
Gillian Smith, Chief Marketing Officer, Teach for America
Scott Morgan, Founder & President, Education Pioneers
Dacia Toll, Co-Founder & Co-CEO, Achievement First
Robert Lenz, Co-Founder & CEO, Envision Schools
Michael Bennet, Superintendent, Denver Public Schools
Steven Adamowski, Superintendent, Hartford Public Schools
Robert Compton, Executive Producer, Two Million Minutesdocumentary
…and many more
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Conference Panels
1) Nature vs. Nurture: Is It Possible to Develop Excellent Teachers?
2) International Benchmarks and Global Competitiveness
3) The Market and the American High School Diploma: The Big Disconnect
4) Attracting Top Talent to the Teaching Profession
5) Strategic Partnerships in Education
6) The CMO Theory of Change: Is There a Tipping Point?
7) The 21st Century Principal: What Defines Effective School Leadership?
8) Teacher Compensation Reform in Denver Public Schools
9) Non-traditional Solutions to the Dropout Crisis
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Visit http://community.som.yale.edu/education/for an updated list of speakers and panelists and to register for this event.
Sponsored by The Broad Foundation, TheCharter Oak Challenge Foundation, andthe Connecticut Coalitionfor Achievement Now.
Questions? Contact the conference co-chairs Paul Holzer, Nancy Hsiung, and Sabrina Silver (SOM ‘09) at club-education@som.yale.edu
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