Hear from nationally recognized experts:
Pedro Noguera, a Distinguished Professor of Education in the University of California, Los Angeles Department of Education. Noguera is a sociologist whose scholarship and research focus on the ways in which schools are influenced by social and economic conditions, as well as by demographic trends in local, regional and global contexts.
Linda Darling-Hammond, President of the Learning Policy Institute, is Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education Emeritus at Stanford University where she is Faculty Director of the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education. Her research and policy work focus on issues of educational equity, teaching quality, and school reform.
Dr. Peter M. Senge, a Senior Lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Founding Chair of the Society for Organizational Learning North America. Dr. Senge has lectured extensively throughout the world, translating the abstract ideas of systems theory into tools for better understanding of economic and organizational change. His areas of special interest focus on decentralizing the role of leadership in organizations so as to enhance the capacity of all people to work productively toward common goals.
Susan Decker, a Senior Governance Consultant for BoardSource. Based in Indiana, Decker has extensive experience in leadership development and nonprofit governance and management. She conducts training and consulting on nonprofit board governance, board development and leadership for a wide range of nonprofit organizations, and has particular expertise in working with organizations in social and human services, higher education and the volunteer sector. Susan also serves as the Director of the Master of Leadership Development program at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College.
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David Plank, the Executive Director of Policy Analysis for California Education. Before joining PACE, Plank was Professor at Michigan State University, where he founded and directed the Education Policy Center. He is the author or editor of six books, including the AERA Handbook on Educational Policy Research. His current interests include the role of the state in education and the relationship between academic research and public policy. >>Download presentation slides
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