Seminar Agenda

Location: 555 New Jersey Ave, NW, 4th Floor Conference Room, Washington, D.C.

Welcome & Overview:

Setting the Agenda:

Helen Ladd, Susan B. King Professor of Public Policy, Sanford School of Public Policy; Professor of Economics, Affiliate of the Center for Child and Family Policy, Duke University.
Susan Moore Johnson, Jerome T. Murphy Research Professor in Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Facilitator: Leo Casey, Executive Director, Albert Shanker Institute.

Lisa Clarke, Director of Policy & Partnerships, National Board for Professional Teaching Standards.
Stephen Lazar, Dean of Academic Progress, Social Studies Teacher, Harvest Collegiate High School in New York City.
Eric Nadelstern, former Deputy Chancellor for the Division of School Support & Instruction for the NYC Department of Education; Visiting Professor of Practice, Teachers College, Columbia University.
Pedro A. Rivera, Pennsylvania Secretary of Education.

Facilitator: Vivian Tseng, Senior Vice President of Programs, William T. Grant Foundation.

Elaine Allensworth, Lewis-Sebring Director of the University of Chicago Consortium on School Research.
Jason Grissom, Associate Professor of Public Policy & Education and Political Science, Peabody College, Vanderbilt University.
David Kirkland, Executive Director of The NYU Metropolitan Center for Research on Equity & the Transformation of Schools.
John P. Papay, Assistant Professor of Education and Economics, Brown University.

Facilitator: Burnie Bond, Director of Programs, Albert Shanker Institute.

Table participants engage in a critical evaluation of what was shared in the two preceding sessions.
Each group receives a different set of discussion questions.
Group facilitators report out; full group discussion follows.

Location: 555 New Jersey Ave, NW, 4th Floor Conference Room, Washington, D.C.

Busra Aydin, Teacher, Wheatley Educational Campus, District of Columbia Public Schools.
Anthony Bryk, President, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
Beth Glenn, Director, Education Justice Network.
Robert Hughes, Director of K-12 Education in the U.S. Program, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Carmel Martin, Executive Vice President for Policy, Center for American Progress.

Facilitator: Will Friedman, President, Public Agenda.

Tables are asigned discussion topics related to the challenges/opportunities surfaced in Session 5.
Table participants engage in a discusion geared at producing a one pager reflecting the group's ideas and consensus.
Group facilitators report out; full group discussion follows.

Carrie R. Leana, George H. Love Professor of Organizations & Management, University of Pittsburgh.
Warren Simmons, Senior Fellow and Adjunct Professor, Master's in Urban Education Policy Program, Brown University.

Facilitator: Marla Ucelli-Kashyap, Assistant to the President for Educational Issues, American Federation of Teachers.