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ECS National Forum Plenary Sessions
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Thursday, July 7, 2011 8:00 AM — 8:15 AM Welcome from Governor Hickenlooper (session #211) | |||||||||||||||||
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Thursday, July 7, 2011 8:15 AM — 9:00 AM Plenary Session with Hilary Pennington (session #213) The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation wants to double the number of low-income adults who earn a college degree or a credential that meets job-marked demands by age 26. You will hear about emerging issues and how that work is progressing. PARTICIPANTS
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Thursday, July 7, 2011 9:00 AM — 9:30 AM Plenary Session with Bob Corcoran (session #214) Bob Corcoran will talk about the tremendous resources that the GE Foundation has committed to education over the past several years and where efforts have been successful, fallen short and what lessons have been learned for future investments in education. PARTICIPANTS
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Thursday, July 7, 2011 9:30 AM — 9:50 AM Community Link Foundation - Higher Education Funding Idea (session #215) 12 years in the development and worth the wait – universal financial access to higher education is here! Introducing community Link, an innovative program launching in Michigan and Tennessee, designed to provide free higher education and K-12 alignment services by pooling hidden resources within communities. It’s scalable, sustainable, and available for all 50 states. PARTICIPANTS
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Thursday, July 7, 2011 10:00 AM — 10:45 AM How Thinking in Pictures Provides Perspective (session #217) Temple Grandin is the inspirational animal behavioral scientist and subject of the award-winning HBO film Temple Grandin. An autism spectrum disorder has helped Dr. Grandin deeply understand what it is to be smart, yet different. She is passionate about the power of education and will talk about her thoughts on what matters most to helping all kids succeed. PARTICIPANTS
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Thursday, July 7, 2011 10:50 AM — 11:50 AM What is Holding Back Reading Achievement (session #225) E.D. Hirsch, education “icon” and author of insightful works, including Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know, The Knowledge Deficit: Closing the Shocking Education Gap for American Children, and The Schools We Need: Why We Can’t Have Them, will talk about reading — how we teach it, how we test it and why this is critical for education reform. PARTICIPANTS
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Thursday, July 7, 2011 12:00 PM — 1:30 PM Plenary Lunch (session #230) AWARDS PRESENTATION: 2011 James Bryant Conant Award Winner is Ted Kolderie, Co-Founder, Education│Evolving, Minnesota ACCEPTING AWARD: Ted Kolderie 2011 Frank Newman Award for State Innovation Award Winner is New England Secondary School Consortium ACCEPTING AWARD: Virginia Barry, New Hampshire Commissioner of Education 2011 ECS Corporate Award winner is ExxonMobil | |||||||||||||||||
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Thursday, July 7, 2011 3:00 PM — 3:45 PM Aligning Teacher Preparation to the Common Core (session #255) These panelists will engage with audience members in a discussion on what types of changes need to take place in the areas of teacher preparation, certification and/or professional development for the successful implementation of the new Common Core State Standards? PARTICIPANTS
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Thursday, July 7, 2011 3:00 PM — 3:45 PM An Open-Mic Session with Chiefs for Change (session #256) Get your wheels turning so you’re ready to participate in this highly structured, fast-moving and hard-hitting question and answer opportunity. PARTICIPANTS
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Friday, July 8, 2011 8:00 AM — 8:05 AM Welcome from ECS President Roger Sampson (session #315) | |||||||||||||||||
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Friday, July 8, 2011 8:05 AM — 8:20 AM Brief Session with Mark Nieker (session #316) PARTICIPANTS
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Friday, July 8, 2011 8:20 AM — 9:05 AM Governors' Panel (session #317) | |||||||||||||||||
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Friday, July 8, 2011 9:10 AM — 9:55 AM Hess’ Hot Button Issues and What He’d Like to See You Do About Them (session #318) You asked for his return to the ECS National Forum on Education Policy. Here's Rick Hess to help fulfill the ECS goal to "make the body politic itch." Rick will tackle a few of the current education policy issues that we’re all hearing and reading about daily and take us in new directions on how we can or should look at these issues as real opportunities for educational change and reform. PARTICIPANTS
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Friday, July 8, 2011 10:05 AM — 11:05 AM Brain Rules and What They Mean for Education (session #325) Dr. John Medina: At your request, Dr. Medina will be back! The highly entertaining, knowledgeable and engaging molecular biologist and author of Brain Rules and Brain Rules for Baby will address implications for learning and for policy. For a preview, see http://brainrules.net/ PARTICIPANTS
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Friday, July 8, 2011 12:15 PM — 1:45 PM Plenary Lunch (session #340) | |||||||||||||||||
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Friday, July 8, 2011 2:00 PM — 5:00 PM Leveraging State Investments in Remedial Education (session #350) Welcome Remarks PARTICIPANTS
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Friday, July 8, 2011 2:00 PM — 4:00 PM Building the Next Generation of P-20 System Alignment (session #355) Getting agencies to work together is tough business, and state-level P-20 councils have been accused (rightly or wrongly) of window-dressing. This session will explore the following questions: What is a truly P-20 system? What are the benefits of establishing such a system? Is the creation of a P-20 council necessary? What are the key leverage points to make a genuine P-20 system a reality in your state? PARTICIPANTS
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Saturday, July 9, 2011 11:15 AM — 12:00 PM What Legislators Can Do To Impact Remedial Education (Invitation Only) (session #435) The closing session will explore how state legislators can take action to increase the college success of students who are currently being placed in remedial education. PARTICIPANTS
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