Summit Presenter Q&A with Jaime Casap, Chief Education Evangelist at Google
Our annual NewSchools Summit is coming up on May 6, 2015. In the coming weeks, we will feature posts on some of our exciting presenters. Next up is Jaime Casap, a leader at Google for Education. One of Jaime’s passions is to challenge the education technology field to diversify its ranks. Our Summit session “Race, technology and […]
Summit Presenter Q&A with Tom Chi, Google X Co-Founder
Our annual NewSchools Summit is coming up soon, on May 6
Announcing Summit 2015 Opening Speaker: Brené Brown
We are honored to announce that Brené Brown will join us as the opening plenary speaker at Summit 2015 on May 6. Brené has spent the past decade s
Summit 2014: Keep the Conversation Going
“Mr. Say ain’t nothin’. Mr. Do is the man.” — Junebug Jabbo Jones This year at Summit, 205 organizations who care deeply about education have committed to diversifying their leadership. To push forward with this important work we’ve created a forum for those of you who have made this commitment as well as for those of you who might be compelled […]
Live From Summit 2014: From Talk to Action: Increasing the Diversity of Education Leadership
Dr. Howard Fuller, Distinguished Professor of Education at Marquette University, introduced the closing plenary of Summit 2014. Dr. Fuller highlighted the important distinction between ed reform as a movement that is done to communities of color and ed reform as a movement that is driven by people of color. If the education reform movement is […]
Live From Summit 2014: Reimagining Urban School Districts
With 95% of public schools students in the United States attending traditional district schools, it is imperative that we find a way to improve school districts more rapidly, especially in urban areas where students are most at risk. Cami Anderson, the Chancellor of Newark Public Schools in New Jersey, and Paul Hill from the Center […]
Live from Summit 2014: Winning the Fight for Higher Standards
Patrick McCarthy of the ExxonMobil foundation introduced our Summit 2014 session on educational standards. As a taxpayer and an employer, ExxonMobi
Live From Summit 2014: When common ground is not enough
“I put children first,” a simple philosophy from Dr. David Hampton, on how he is able to bring his community along with him in the effort improve educational options for kids in his community. In Crossing Over Jordan, Hampton and Reverend Kendrick Curry from the Pennsylvania Avenue Baptist Church, shared how education reformers can better connect with their faith communities in order to build a community foundation for transforming education.
John King in Conversation with Joanne Weiss
Joanne Weiss, former chief of staff to the Secretary of Education, interviewed John King, Commissioner of Education of the State of New York, about
Live From Summit 2014: Reading Reconsidered
When it comes to teaching literacy, content and skills (like decoding specific words and citing their definitions) are inseparable. In a live session at NewSchools Summit, Doug Lemov (Uncommon Schools), Kyla Johnson Trammell (Oakland Unified School District), and Roberto Pondiscio (Democracy Prep) surfaced the above example and discussed the key approaches to elevating the rigor of reading instruction.