November 6

9:00 am - 5:00 pm

Registration

All Day

Gallery Walk

1:00 - 2:15 pm

Welcome and Opening Plenary

Welcome and Opening Remarks - Scott Van Beck, Co-Chair, National Conference Planning Committee and Executive Director, Houston A+ Challenge

Linda Croushore, Co-Chair, National Conference Planning Committee and Executive Director, The Consortium for Public Education

Opening Plenary - Vicki Phillips, Director of Education, College Ready Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

2:30-4:00 p.m.

Mini-Plenary Session - College Prep for All? Or Multiple Pathways?

Bob Schwartz, Professor of Practice and Academic Dean, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Kati Haycock, President, Education Trust

Moderator: Sarah Sparks, Writer, Education Week

2:30-4:00 p.m.

Mini-Plenary Session - School Readiness: Reading on Grade Level

Ralph E. Smith, Executive Vice President, Annie E. Casey Foundation

4:30-6:00 pm

Annual Members Meeting

6:00-8:00 pm

Welcome Reception (including PEN Anniversary film)

November 7

9:00 am - 5:00 pm

Registration

All Day

Gallery Walk

8:00-9:00 am

Parent Power Film with facilitated discussion

Norm Fruchter, Executive Producer, Parent Power, and Annenberg Institute for School Reform

9:00-10:15 am

Morning Plenary

S. Paul Reville, Massachusetts Secretary of Education

10:15-10:30 am

Networking Break, and Book Signing by conference presenter Mark Warren

10:30 am -12:00 pm

Strategic Conversations - The Educational Experience of Young Men of Color

John Michael Lee, Jr., Policy Director, College Board Advocacy and Policy Center

Tafaya Ransom, Doctoral Student, University of Pennsylvania

10:30 am -12:00 pm

Strategic Conversations - College and Career for All - Using Data Strategically to Increase Graduation and College-Ready Rates

Lili Allen, Program Director, Jobs for the Future

10:30 am -12:00 pm

Strategic Conversations - A Systemic Approach to Measuring College-Readiness: National and Local Efforts

Cornelia Orr, Executive Director, National Assessment Governing Board

Ellen Foley, Associate Director, Annenberg Institute for School Reform

Jaein Lee, Research Analyst, Annenberg Institute for School Reform

Milbrey McLaughlin, Director, The John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities

10:30 am - 12:00 pm

Strategic Conversations - Community Organizing as a Catalyst for School Reform

Mark R. Warren, Associate Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Amanda Taylor, Doctoral Student, Harvard Graduate School of Education

12:00-2:00 pm

Luncheon Plenary

Carol Gilligan, University Professor, New York University

Pedro Noguera, Peter L. Agnew Professor of Education, New York University

2:00 - 2:15 pm

Networking Break, and Book Signing by conference presenters Carol Gilligan and Pedro Noguera

2:15-3:45 pm

Strategic Conversations - Speaking the Same Language: Understanding College and Career Readiness

Stephen DeWitt, Senior Director of Public Policy, Association for Career and Technical Education

Alissa Peltzman, Director of State Leadership and Policy Development

2:15-3:45 pm

Strategic Conversations - To Tell the Truth: Urban Teacher Residencies - Successes and Challenges in Practice and Policy at the Local and National Levels

Jesse Solomon, Executive Director, Boston Plan for Excellence-Boston Teacher Residency

Tamara Azar, Policy Director, Urban Teacher Residency United

2:15-3:45 pm

Strategic Conversations - Public Education and the Economy: How College- and Career-Readiness Supports Economic and Workforce Development

Elizabeth Schneider, Vice President, Alliance for Excellent Education

Jeremiah Newell, Director, Mobile Area Education Foundation

2:15-3:45 pm

Strategic Conversations - District Resource Mapping as Lever for System Transformation

Trey Csar, Jacksonville Public Education Fund Executive Director (Introducer)

Kristen Ferris, Manager, Education Resource Strategies

3:45 - 4:00 pm

Networking Break

4:00-5:30 pm

Strategic Conversations - Ensuring Student Success Through Building Effective District & State Level College Readiness Campaigns

Joanne Kim, Chief Operating Officer, Community Coalition

Jessie Ryan, Associate Director, Campaign for College Opportunity

Valerie Cuevas, Director of External Relations, Education Trust-West

Angelica Solis, Executive Director, Alliance for a Better Community

4:00-5:30 pm

Strategic Conversations - Hear Us Out: Putting the Student Voice at the Center of Our Work

Karen Tollenar Demorest, Vice President, Operations, Alliance for Education (introducer)

Duron Jones, Student, Seattle University

Valerie Threlfall, Vice President, YouthTruth Initiative, Center for Effective Philanthropy

4:00-5:30 pm

Strategic Conversations - Postsecondary Access and Systems: What Do They Look Like?

Hanna Doerr, Postsecondary Success Program Manager, San Francisco Education Fund

Lori Hurwitz, Deputy Director of Programs, San Francisco Education Fund

Andrea Nobil, Citi Postsecondary Success Project Program Manager, The Education Fund

Linda Lecht, President, The Education Fund

5:30-6:00 pm

Networking Break

6:00-8:00 pm

DC Premiere of American Teacher to be followed by a panel of local teachers and education leaders.

November 8

9:00 am - 12:00 pm

Registration

All Day

Gallery Walk

8:00-9:30 am

Federal Session

Michael Yudin, Acting Assistant Secretary, Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, U.S. Department of Education

James Horney, Vice President for Federal Fiscal Policy, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

Moderator: Governor Robert Wise, President, Alliance for Excellent Education

9:30-10:00

Networking Break

10:00-11:30 am

Dilemma Sessions

Data Dilemma: Linking Teacher Effectiveness to college and career readiness

Scott Van Beck, Executive Director, Houston A+ Challenge

Corinne Herlihy, Director, The National Center for Teacher Effectiveness

10:00-11:30 am

Dilemma Sessions

Policy Dilemma: Scaling Up Practices around Personalization

Linda Croushore, Executive Director, The Consortium for Public Education

Joseph DiMartino, President, Center for Secondary School Redesign, Inc.

11:30 am -12:00 pm

Networking Break and Hotel Check-out

12:00-1:45 pm

Closing Luncheon Plenary

Bob Herbert, Distinguished Senior Fellow, DEMOS and former New York Times columnist

1:45 pm

Conference Adjourns