Monday, February 11, 2013

Texas Capitol Auditorium (E1.004)

7:45 a.m. - 12 Noon 7:30-7:45 Registration 7:45-7:46 Call to Order Bill Stotesbery, KLRU-TV Austin 7:46-7:55 Welcome and Introduction Bernie Francis, Chairman of Texas Business Leadership Council’s Education Task Force

7:55-8:15 The Louisiana Model John White, Louisiana Superintendent of Education

8:15-8:40 Ground-Breaking Policies: What Other States are Doing

Moderator: John White, Louisiana, Superintendent of Education

Panelists: Robyn Bagley, Utah Lisa Duty, Ohio 8:40-9:00 Partners in Education: How School Districts are Working with Technology Innovators – A Quick Overview

Moderator: Bill Stotesbery, KLRU-TV Austin

Panel: District, service center, and key support respresentatives 9:00-9:25 Next Steps: Moving Ahead Michael Horn, Co-founder of Innosight with Online Policy Institute, Co-author of national best-seller Disrupting Class

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9:25-10:00 A New Model for Texas

Moderator: Bill Stotesbery, KLRU-TV Austin

Panelists: Sen. Dan Patrick, Chairman, Texas Senate Education Committee

Sen. Leticia Van de Putte, Chair, Interim Online Learning Committee

Rep. Jimmie Don Aycock, Chairman, Texas House Public Education Committee

Rep. Mark Strama, Texas House of Representatives

10:00-10:40 Partners in Education: How School Districts Are Working with Technology Innovators

Moderator: Salem Abraham, Vice President, Canadian ISD School Board

Panel: District, service center, agency, and key support respresentatives

10:40-11:00 Increasing Efficiency, Tom Greaves, Co-founder of Project RED, Effectiveness & Quality Co-author of America’s Digital Schools reports

11:00-11:30 Closing Remarks Bill Stotesbery, KLRU-TV, Austin and Audience Q&A

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Introducing Today’s Presenters  

John White

John White began his career as an English teacher in New Jersey. After working with Teach For America, including as Executive Director of TFA-Chicago, John was asked by NYC Chancellor Joel Klein to join his senior leadership team. As Deputy Chancellor of Talent, Labor, and Innovation, White launched the Innovation Zone, a network of 100 21st Century schools using technology to personalize learning. White became Superintendent of the Louisiana Recovery School District in 2011, where he launched his "12 commitments” including overhauling failing schools in the RSD and establishing a unified enrollment system. White was named State Superintendent of education in 2012 and soon thereafter launched Louisiana Believes, a plan to put every child on the path toward college and career.

Michael Horn

Michael B. Horn is the co-founder and executive director of the education practice of Innosight Institute, a non-profit think tank devoted to applying the theories of disruptive innovation to solve problems in the social sector. In this capacity, Horn leads a team that educates policymakers and the public on how to encourage innovation in education. In 2008, Horn co-authored Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns (McGraw-Hill) with Harvard Business School Professor Clayton M. Christensen and Curtis W. Johnson. BusinessWeek named the book one of the 10 Best Innovation & Design Books of 2008. Tech&Learning magazine named Horn to its list of the 100 most important people in the creation and advancement of the use of technology in education.

Tom Greaves

Tom Greaves has 43 years of experience in the computer industry and has participated in the development and marketing of over 200 award-winning educational software and hardware products. Mr. Greaves, along with co-author Jeanne Hayes, authored the America’s Digital Schools reports, syndicated studies of the top 2,500 U.S. school districts. These surveys provide valuable insight into the future of the digital school from the

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Today’s Presenters, Continued

perspective of superintendents and curriculum and technology directors. Currently, Mr. Greaves is co-leading the implementation phase of Project RED, a 1000 school study focused on the hypothesis that properly implemented educational technology can contribute to dramatic improvements in student achievement as well as being revenue positive at the state level.

Lisa Duty, Ph.D.

As Senior Director of Innovation at KnowledgeWorks, Lisa Duty most recently created and led the Ohio Digital Learning Campaign, resulting in digital learning policies supporting an array of online and blended options for all students – including whole-school blended models across public and charter-public school lines. Lisa defined and supported the establishment of the Ohio Digital Learning Task Force in law, helping craft its original framework and strategy to support the expansion of digital learning. She is currently designing and piloting a new school model that fuses blended learning with collective impact. Dubbed “Oasis,” the pilot debuted in EdWeek September 2012.

Robyn Bagley

Robyn Bagley serves as Board Chair for Parents for Choice in Education, a grassroots advocacy and policy organization responsible for authoring and successfully advocating for the passage of the Statewide Online Education Program, Utah's premier Digital Learning law. Invited by Jeb Bush, Robyn served on the Digital Learning Council convened in 2011. She is a member of Governor Gary R. Herbert's Education Excellence Commission. Robyn also served on the Board of the Utah Association of Public Charter Schools and is both a founding and governing board member of online and blended learning charter schools.

 

 

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