GFE Annual Conference Program

View some of the session handouts from the conference:

 
Monday, October 20, 2008

Developing a Diverse and Skilled Workforce: Lessons from the New Jersey Abbott Preschool Experience
Julia Coffman, Consultant | Melinda Green, Consultant | Barbara Reisman, Schumann Fund for New Jersey

• Developing a Diverse and Skilled Workforce presentation

Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns 2008
Clayton Christensen, Harvard Business School

• Clayton Christensen presentation

Organized Communities, Stronger Schools: The Promise and practice of Community Organizing as a Tool for Improving Schools
Christine Doby, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation | Kavitha Mediratta, Annenberg Institute for School reform | John Rogers, University of California-Los Angeles

• Kavitha Mediratta presentation
• John Rogers presentation
  
• Annenberg Institute for Reform executive summary

Redesigning Developmental Education: From Remediation to Acceleration
Elaine Baker, Colorado Lumina Initiative for Performance | Pamela Burdman, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation | Diego Navarro, Cabrillo College | Raymund Paredes, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board

• Digital Bridge Academy presentation

Restoring Hope: Detroit's Making the Grade Initiative
Kristen McDonald, The Skillman Foundation | Sharif Shakrani, Education Policy Center

• Good Schools Making the Grade presentation

Roadmap to Afterschool for All: Assessing Current Investments and Mapping Future Needs
An-Me Chung, C.S. Mott Foundation | Jennifer Rinehart, Afterschool Alliance | Victoria Wegener, The Finance Project

• Jennifer Rinehart presentation
• Victoria Wegener presentation

Tuesday, October 21, 2008 

Getting to Graduation: Investment Strategies to Increase Rates of Students Graduating Ready for College and Life
Tonya Allen, The Skillman Foundation | Chris Sturgis, MetisNet | Carmita Vaughan, Office of High Schools and High School Programs for Chicago Public Schools 

• Chris Sturgis presentation
• Chris Sturgis and Multiple Pathways to Graduation Workgroup presentation
• OHSP presentation
• NYC Department of Education presentation

Rebuilding the Village: The Community School Strategy
Martin Blank, Institute for Educational Leadership  | Rhonnel Sotelo, Stuart Foundation | Lisa Villarreal, The San Francisco Foundation

• Community Schools: Connecting School and Community to Support Student Success 
• Rebuilding the Village presentation
• Stuart Foundation Community Schools: Practice to Inform & Influence Policy

The Role of Community Colleges in Promoting Immigrant Integration
Christopher Connell, CC Editorial Services | JoAnn Crandall, University of Maryland | Israel Mendoza, Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges

• To view report, go to http://www.gcir.org/publications/gcirpubs/college

Success for Students in STEM: Creating In-School Interest & Engagement through Afterschool
Diane Miller, St. Louis Science Center | Ron Ottinger, Noyce Foundation | Maryann Stimmer, The After-School Corporation | Robert Tai, Curry School of Education, University of Virginia

• Science in After-School
• Engagement, Capacity and Continuity: An Overview of a Trilogy for Student Success 
• Planning Early for Careers in Science

Windows of Opportunity: Using Public/Private Partnerships to Expand Early Childhood Education
Susan Gallo, Mayor's Office for Education and Children | James Mejia, Denver Preschool Program | Lisa Roy, Center for the Study of Social Policy

• Windows of Opportunity...

 
Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Beginning with the End in Mind: A Grantmaker's Guide to Evaluation
Mike Bangser, Consultant

• Demystifying Evaluation presentation
  

Gimme Shelter: Working with Your Superintendent Through Good Times and Bad
Juliet Eurich, Alvin and Fanny B. Thalheimer Foundation | David Ferrero, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | Klare Shaw, Barr Foundation

• Urban city profiles session handout