Education reformers convene in New Haven
Monday, April 8, 2013
Last Thursday and Friday, New Haven’s Omni Hotel and Shubert Theater became home to hundreds of education reformers from around the country.
The seventh annual Yale School of Management Education Leadership Conference brought in roughly 700 attendees from organizations like Democrats for Education Reform, the KIPP Foundation, Teach for America, City Year and Achievement First. The two days included five discussion panels, two of which were keynote events featuring officials such as Providence, R.I., Mayor Angel Taveras and Louisiana State Superintendent of Education John White. The panels held during the conference, which this year centered on “Inspiring Transformational Change,” focused on topics including parental involvement in community education transformation, the role of technology in personalized learning, how to use New Orleans as a model for change and how to reach students of all socioeconomic backgrounds.
The conference’s first panel, moderated by Connecticut’s Commissioner of Education Stefan Pryor, focused on how Connecticut can begin to implement its recently passed education reform bill. The bill will create the Commissioner’s Network of Turnaround Schools, which will use top educational
