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Governor Malloys Education Workshop2012: The Year for Education Reform

Tursday, January 5, 201211:00 AM 5:00 PM

Alumni HallCentral Connecticut State University1615 Stanley Street, New Britain, C

11:00 AM 12:00 PMRegistration

12:00 PM 1:00 PMLunch Plenary (Alumni Hall)

Welcoming Remarks:

Introduction: Central Connecticut State University Provost Carl LovittState Department of Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor

Keynote Address:

Introduction: Lieutenant Governor Nancy WymanU.S. Department of Education Under Secretary Martha J. Kanter

1:00 PM 2:00 PMSession One

Panel I: Low-Performing Schools and Districts (Alumni Hall)Panel II: Teacher and School Leader Preparation (Constitution Room)

2:15 PM 3:15 PMSession wo

Panel III: Excellent Teachers / School Leaders (Alumni Hall)

3:30 PM 4:30 PM

Session TreePanel IV: College / Career Readiness (Alumni Hall)

Panel V: School Finance (Constitution Room)

4:30 PM 5:00 PMConcluding Remarks (Alumni Hall)

Introduction: Board of Regents Executive VP Michael MeottiGovernor Dannel P. Malloy


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Closing the Achievement Gap:The Presentation of Bold Ideas and Solutions, While Learning

Lessons from Other States and Reform Efforts

SESSION ONE

Panel I:Low-Performing

Schools and DistrictsLocation: Alumni Hall in the Student Center

Challenge/Problem to be Addressed in Connecticut:Support and lif up those schools and schooldistricts within the state that are consistentlyalling short in their eorts to educate students,provide a sae school climate, and prepare students

or college and career.

Purpose:o discuss experiences and provide ideas andguidance or how the state can support andintervene in the lowest-perorming schools anddistricts in ways that enable enhanced studentachievement.

Moderator

Justin Cohen, PresidentSchool urnaround Group

Mass Insight Education

Panelists

Kevin Guitterrez, CEOReNEW Charter Schools

Paul Herdman, Executive DirectorRODEL Foundation o Delaware

Kathleen Greider, Superintendent,Farmington Public Schools

Sandy Kase, CAOBridgeport Public Schools / ormer

Superintendent, NYC ChancellorsDistrict

Panel II:Teacher and School

Leader PreparationLocation: Constitution Room in Memorial Hall

Challenge/Problem to be Addressed in Connecticut:Help support program graduates to successullydemonstrate certain skills, knowledge andapproaches needed to be eective teachers andschool leaders as well as coordinate and collaborate

preparation programs with districts in order toensure the best training o candidates.

Purpose:o share elements o successul preparationprograms in-state and out-o-state to inormimprovements in Connecticut.

Moderator

David Nee, Executive DirectorWilliam Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund /

Board Member, Connecticut Center or

School Change

Panelists

Arthur Levine, President, Te WoodrowWilson National Fellowship Foundation

Robert M. Villanova, DirectorExecutive Leadership ProgramUConn Neag School o Education

Michael Sampson, Dean o EducationSouthern Connecticut State University

Gary Chesley, Superintendent

Bethel Public Schools


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SESSION TWO

Panel IIIExcellent Teachers/

School LeadersLocation: Alumni Hall in the Student Center

Challenge/Problem to be Addressed in Connecticut:Promote excellence in teaching and administration,while providing evaluative mechanisms andeective supports necessary or all teachers andschool leaders.

Purpose:o discuss experiences and precedents in educationreorm and to discuss innovative steps that can betaken to promote excellence in the classroom.

Moderator

Jon SchnurExecutive Chairman and Co-Founder

America Achieves

Panelists

Randi Weingarten, PresidentAmerican Federation o eachers

Reginald Mayo, SuperintendentNew Haven Public Schools

Richard Laine, Former Director oEducation, Te Wallace Foundation

Joseph Cirasuolo, Executive DirectorConnecticut Association o Public SchoolSuperintendents


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Panel IV:College/Career Readiness

Location: Alumni Hall in the Student Center

Challenge/Problem to be Addressed in Connecticut:Prepare students so that they arrive to and succeedin college and career without remediation.

Purpose:o communicate about how a College and CareerReadiness denition and the Common Core

State Standards can help to improve and supportstudent achievement.

Moderator

Michael MeottiExecutive Vice President

Board o Regents or Higher Education /Co-Chair, P-20 Council

Panelists

Charis McGaughy, Director oPartnerships and Development Division

Educational Policy Improvement Center(EPIC)

Michael Cohen, PresidentAchieve, Inc.

Jennier McNelly, Senior Vice PresidentTe Manuacturing Institute

Panel V:School Finance

Location: Constitution Room in Memorial Hall

Challenge/Problem to be Addressed in Connecticut:Ampliy and ocus on the work being done by theECS ask Force in order to understand, evaluate,and restructure the Education Cost Sharingormula.

Purpose:

o discuss prior examples o education nancereorm and to learn about comprehensive solutionsto revamp the way in which state dollars go to undthe education o students.

Moderator

Paul Vallas, Acting SuperintendentBridgeport Public Schools / ormer

Superintendent, New Orleans Recovery SchoolDistrict, Philadelphia Public Schools and

Chicago Public Schools

Panelists

Cynthia Brown, Director o Rhode IslandState Department o Education, StatewideE ciencies

Michael Sharpe, PresidentConnecticut Charter School Network /CEO, Jumoke Academy

Dudley Williams, Member, ECS askForce / District Director, GE Asset

Management Elsa Nuez, Member, ECS ask Force /PresidentEastern Connecticut State University

Force / District Director,

Management E sa Nuez, Mem er, ECPresidentEastern Connecticut Stat



SESSION THREE


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Martha J. Kanter, Under SecretaryBiography

Martha J. Kanter was nominated by President Barack Obama on April 29, 2009 to be the undersecretary o education and was conrmed by the Senate on June 19, 2009. Kanter reports toSecretary o Education Arne Duncan and oversees policies, programs, and activities related topostsecondary education, adult and career-technical education, ederal student aid, and veWhite House Initiatives on Asian Americans and Pacic Islanders, Educational Excellence orHispanics, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, ribal Colleges and Universities, and

Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. o spur education, economic growth and sociaprosperity, Kanter is charged with planning and policy responsibilities to implement PresidenObamas goal or the U.S. to have the best educated, most competitive workorce in the world by2020 as measured by the proportion o college graduates over the next decade. Under SecretaryKanter and her team are keenly ocused on improving college access, aordability, quality, andcompletion to implement President Obamas American Graduation Initiative.

In her rst two years as under secretary, the successul implementation o the Direct Student Loan program resulted ina 50-percent increase in college enrollment, growing rom 6 to 9 million students today who are Pell Grant recipientsKanter and her team are working closely with postsecondary partners rom across the nation to boost American innovationand competitiveness with an ambitious college completion agenda, teacher quality reorms, adult education programimprovements, modernization o career-technical education, and a new partnership with the U.S. Department o Labor

that has announced the rst $500 million o a $2 billion ederal investment to increase quality, graduation, and employmenopportunities or community college students.

From 2003 to 2009, Kanter served as chancellor o the Foothill-De Anza Community College District, one o the largescommunity college districts in the nation, serving more than 45,000 students with a total budget o approximately $400million. She is the rst community college leader to serve in the under secretary position. In 1977, afer serving as analternative high school teacher in Massachusetts and New York, she established the rst program or students with learningdisabilities at San Jose City College (Cali.). She then served as a director, dean and subsequently vice chancellor or policyand research or the Caliornia Community Colleges Chancellors O ce in Sacramento. In 1990, she returned to San JoseCity College as vice president o instruction and student services until she was named president o De Anza College in 1993serving in this position or a decade until her appointment as chancellor.

Kanter has been recognized or her work numerous times, including being named Woman o the Year by the 24th AssemblyDistrict, Woman o Achievement by San Jose Mercury News and the Womens Fund, and Woman o the Year or Santa ClaraCounty by the American Association o University Women. In 2003, she received the Excellence in Education award rom theNational Organization or Womens Caliornia Chapter. In 2006, she was honored or diversity and community leadership bythe Santa Clara County Commission on the Status o Women, and in 2007, the American Leadership Forum-Silicon Valleyhonored her with the John W. Gardner Leadership Award. In 2008, Kanter received the Citizen o the Year award rom theCupertino Chamber o Commerce. In 2009, Notre Dame High School in Silicon Valley honored her with the Woman oImpact award and, in 2010, Junior Achievement o Silicon Valley and Monterey Bay nominated her or the Business Hallo Fame. In 2011, Kanter was appointed to the U.S. National Commission or the United Nations Educational, Scientic,Cultural Organization (UNESCO), a ederal advisory committee to the Department o State that supports worldwidehumanitarian development and values by coordinating eorts and delivering expert advice on issues o education, science,

communications and culture.

Under Secretary Kanter holds a doctorate in organization and leadership rom the University o San Francisco. Her dissertationaddressed demographic, institutional, and assessment actors aecting access to higher education or underrepresentedstudents in Caliornias community colleges. In 1994, she opened the rst Advanced echnology Center in Caliorniascommunity college system and promoted local and state policies to advance Foothill-De Anzas legacy o excellence andopportunity or Caliornias expanding and increasingly diverse student population. She received her masters degree ineducation with a concentration in clinical psychology and public practice rom Harvard University, and a bachelors degreein sociology rom Brandeis University. Kanter holds honorary degrees rom Palo Alto University, Chatham University, LakesRegion Community College, Moraine Valley Community College and the Alamo Colleges.

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