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Radical thought about American education...
Dallas, TX, United States
February 4th, 2012
"Ideas Worth Spreading" about effective educational reform—many of them a bit "radical"...
Confirmed Presenters:
Eahn Martinez
Eighteen-year old "retired" gangleader at Bryan Adams High School.
Aaron Oliver
Former Director of Athletics, KIPP Schools, Houston.
Peter Brown
Architect for alternative schools.
Jenifer Fox
New Head at The Clariden School of Southlake. An interesting recent thought from Ms. Fox, "We have not yet clarified as a nation what the ends of education are and how to ensure students attain those ends. We can side step this issue all we want by blaming teachers, pointing to scores, disarming unions, throwing copious sums of money around but until we decide how we can get students involved in actually performing and demonstrating mastery of and desire to do the kinds of tasks needed for the jobs of the future, then we are wasting our time."
Josh Alan Friedman
Author of autobiographical novel, "Black Cracker". Blues singer / songwriter. Senior Editor, "Screw" magazine, in early '80's.
Buddy Flett
2011 Grammy Award Nominee. Recovering Aphasic.
Salman Kahn
[Via video] Founder of Kahn Academy.
Michael Feinberg
[Via video] Co-founder, KIPP Schools.
Edward Gibson
High-school gang-behavior expert; early affiliation with Blackstone Rangers.
Charles Glover
Founding Executive Director, SW Region, Teach for America. Texas A&M University, Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Patrick J. Connolly
Executive Vice President, Chief Marketing Officer, and 40-year employee of Williams Sonoma Grande Cuisine; Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Christian Yazdanpanah
SparkEd, TEDxSMUKIDS, ExxonMobil Green Team, VCNT.
Andres Ramos
Co-founder, with Krishanu Sengupta, of PolicyPulse, née "educateTX".
James D. Ray
Co-founder, Dallas Kids First.
Phillip Scheldt
Very interesting mind. Somewhat strange. Quite smart.
Roderick MacIlwaine
Purveyor of "Free Advice" on Sundays at White Rock Lake for over 16 years.
Kyle Ross, Ph.D.
Post-doctoral fellowship at UTSW psychiatry. ISS / Gang expert for nearly a decade at Bryan Adams High School.
Alex Hales
Ace TFA Teacher-teacher.
Nancy Yang
Former student—in China.
Scott Michael Smith
Teacher, Texas Can! Academy
Lisa Walker
Meta-reform
Stan Woodward
Early Adopter / Techie / Entrepreneur view of "Ed-Reform Space". "A Hitchhiker's Guide to Ed-Reform"
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