Seminar Participants
| Elaine Allensworth | Lewis-Sebring Director of the University of Chicago Consortium on School Research. |
| Busra Aydin | Teacher, Wheatley Educational Campus, District of Columbia Public Schools. |
| Michael Barber | Associate Program Officer, Spencer Foundation. |
| Anthony Bryk | President, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. |
| Leo Casey | Executive Director, Albert Shanker Institute. |
| Lisa Clarke | Director of Policy & Partnerships, National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. |
| Elizabeth Davis | President, Washington Teachers Union. |
| Cyrus Driver | Senior Director for Strategy and Programs, National Public Education Support Fund. |
| Will Friedman | President, Public Agenda. |
| Steven Glazerman | Senior Fellow, Mathematica Policy Research. |
| Beth Glenn | Director, Education Justice Network, Annenberg Institute for School Reform, Brown University. |
| Jason Grissom | Associate Professor of Public Policy and Education and Political Science, Peabody College, Vanderbilt University. |
| Jane Hannaway | Professor, McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University; Institute Fellow, American Institute for Research; founding director, CALDER. |
| Robert Hughes | Director of K-12 Education in the United States Program, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. |
| Sarah Johnson | Program Officer for Exceptional Educators, Overdeck Family Foundation. |
| Mark Johnston | Superintendent, Shenandoah Public Schools. |
| Eugenia Kemble | Founding Executive Director, Albert Shanker Institute. |
| David Kirkland | Executive Director of The NYU Metropolitan Center for Research on Equity and The Transformation of Schools. |
| Silas Kulkarni | Executive Director, Teaching Lab. |
| 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. |
| Steve Lazar | Dean of Academic Progress, Social Studies Teacher, Harvest Collegiate High School. |
| Carrie R. Leana | George H. Love Professor of Organizations and Management, University of Pittsburgh. |
| Carmel Martin | Exective Vice President for Policy, Center for American Progress. |
| Susan Moore Johnson | Jerome T. Murphy Research Professor in Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education. |
| 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. |
| John P. Papay | Assistant Professor of Education and Economics, Brown University. |
| Lisette Partelow | Director of K-12 Strategic Initiatives, Center for American Progress. |
| Laura Wilson Phelan | Member, District of Columbia State Board of Education. |
| Esther Quintero | Senior Fellow, Albert Shanker Institute. |
| Pedro A. Rivera | Pennsylvania Secretary of Education. |
| Matthew Shirrell | Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership & Administration, Graduate School of Education & Human Development, George Washington University. |
| Warren Simmons | Senior Fellow and Adjunct Professor, Master's in Urban Education Policy Program, Brown University. |
| Sarah Sparks | Reporter, Ed Week. |
| Vivian Tseng | Senior Vice President for Program, William T. Grant Foundation. |
| Marla Ucelli Kashyap | Assistant to the President for Educational Issues, American Federation of Teachers. |
| Ruth Wattenberg | Member, District of Columbia State Board of Education. |
| Kimber Wilkerson | Professor, Department of Rehabilitation Psychology and Special Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison. |
| Peter Youngs | Associate Professor, Curry School of Education, University of Virginia. |