Conference Schedule

8:30–10:00 am

Concurrent sessions & seminar

Can Video Games Teach?: An Examination of Educational Outcomes, Challenges and Opportunities
James Bower, Numedeon Inc.| Brianno Coller, Northern Illinois University | Caroline Davies, University of Missouri - Kansas City | Diane Jass Ketelhut, Temple University | Michelle Roper, Federation of American Scientists | Iris Totten, Kansas State University | Phoenix Wang, Monterey Institute for Technology and Education

Getting to Graduation: Investment Strategies to Increase Rates of Students Graduating Ready for College and Life
Tonya Allen, The Skillman Foundation | Chris Sturgis, MetisNet | Carmita Vaughan, Office of High Schools and High School Programs for Chicago Public Schools

Leading a New Day for Learning: Principals and Afterschool Professionals Collaborating for Coherence
An-Me Chung, C.S. Mott Foundation | Judy Nee, National AfterSchool Association | Eric Schwarz, Citizen Schools | Mary Kay Sommers, National Association of Elementary School Principals 

Lessons Learned from Early College High Schools: An Urban Education Reform Model
Robert Baird, The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation | Irene Cooper-Basch, Victoria Foundation | Donald Hense, Friendship Public Charter School | Treyvon Jackson, Lafayette College

Rebuilding the Village: The Community School Strategy
Martin Blank, Institute for Educational Leadership  | Rhonnel Sotelo, Stuart Foundation | Lisa Villarreal, The San Francisco Foundation

The Role of Community Colleges in Promoting Immigrant Integration
Christopher Connell, CC Editorial Services | JoAnn Crandall, University of Maryland | Israel Mendoza, Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges

Success for Students in STEM: Creating In-School Interest & Engagement through Afterschool
Diane Miller, St. Louis Science Center | Ron Ottinger, Noyce Foundation | Maryann Stimmer, The After-School Corporation | Robert Tai, Curry School of Education, University of Virginia

Case Study Seminar: Persistence, Partnership and Public Will: The Annie E. Casey Foundation's Investments in Kentucky School Reform (advanced registration required)

10:30–11:45 am

KEYNOTE PLENARY:
Disrupting our Notions of Education Reform

Harvard Business School Professor Clayton Christensen has long been advising the business community that the innovative new products and services that tend to ultimately displace reigning products are not those that compete head to head for existing customers, but rather those that target the people “not being served or not interested in buying what’s served.” How might his “disruptive innovation” theory apply to the world of education?  How can we reach the millions of students not served well by the current system—not by “tinkering” with existing infrastructures or even necessarily starting schools from scratch, but by reimagining altogether how students might best learn? Hear what Professor Christensen has to say about changing the very way we think about reforming education—including challenging our assumptions about the roles of teachers, classrooms and schools.
Clayton Christensen, Harvard Business School, and author, Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns 2008

noon–1:30 pm

Networking lunch 

2:00–3:30 pm

Concurrent sessions & seminar

Activating the Power of the State to Transform Local Schools
Gretchen Crosby Simms, The Joyce Foundation | Paul Herdman, Rodel Founation of Delaware | Stefanie Sanford, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Rethinking Career and Techincal Education: Merging 21st Century Workforce Skills with College Readiness
Theodore Gershon, Columbia University | Lisa Nutter, Philadelphia Academies, Inc. | Joe Scantlebury, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Summertime: Confronting Risks and Expanding Opportunities
Richard Berlin, Harlem RBI | Ronald Fairchild, Center for Summer Learning | Earl Martin Phalen, Building Educated Leaders for Life | Jane Sundius, Open Society Institute-Baltimore

Windows of Opportunity: Using Public/Private Partnerships to Expand Early Childhood Education
Susan Gallo, Mayor's Office for Education and Children | James Mejia, Denver Preschool Program | Lisa Roy, Center for the Study of Social Policy 

Case Study Seminar: Boosting Grantee Effectiveness: The Hyde Family Foundations (advance registration required)

2:00–5:30 pm

Off-site learning tours

4:00-5:00 pm

Issue network walks   

Bring your walking shoes for this networking event, brought back upon request after its debut last year.  You'll have a number of issues and walk itineraries from which to choose at this unique event to help you make deeper connections with colleagues while you explore Baltimore.

5:30–6:30 pm

Funder-sponsored receptions   

6:30–8:30 pm

Dine-arounds

Sign up on site to dine with colleagues at a tasty Baltimore eatery.