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In 2007, leaders in education, afterschool and business serving on the C.S. Mott Foundation New Day for Learning Advisory Board issued the New Day for Learning report to catalyze conversations, raise awareness and spark solutions for creating a comprehensive, seamless approach to learning in the U.S.
- Milton Chen, executive director, The George Lucas Educational Foundation
- An-Me Chung, program officer, C.S. Mott Foundation
- Christopher T. Cross, chairman, Cross and Joftus
- Vincent L. Ferrandino, former executive director, National Association of Elementary School Principals
- Lisa Fowler, special assistant to the city manager, City of Pasadena
- Milton Goldberg, educational consultant
- Judith Johnson, superintendent, Peekskill City School District
- Michelle Kim, director of strategic planning, Tiger Woods Foundation
- Donna Klein, President/CEO, Corporate Voices for Working Families
- Paul H. Koehler, director, Policy Center at WestEd
- Rhonda Lauer, chief executive officer, Foundations, Inc.
- Michael T. Nettles, senior vice president, Policy Evaluation and Research Center,
Educational Testing Service - Delia Pompa, vice president, education, National Council of La Raza
- Warren Simmons, director, Annenberg Institute for School Reform
- Deborah Lowe Vandell, chair, Department of Education, University of California, Irvine
- Carmen Vega-Rivera, director, Say Yes to Education, NYC Chapter
- Joyce Walters, Director, Global Community Investing, Global Corporate Citizenship, The Boeing Company
- Rob Weil, deputy director, Educational Issues, American Federation of Teachers
- Susan Tave Zelman, Senior Vice President for Education and Children's Content
Corporation for Public Broadcasting
MILTON CHEN, Ph.D. Executive Director
The George Lucas Educational Foundation, San Rafael, CA
Dr. Milton Chen is executive director of The George Lucas Educational Foundation
(GLEF), a nonprofit operating foundation founded by the filmmaker in 1991 that
publishes a multimedia website, magazine, and documentary films on 21st Century
schools. Before joining GLEF in 1998, Milton was the founding director of the
KQED Center for Education & Lifelong Learning (PBS) in San Francisco, providing educational TV programming
and outreach services for schools, families and the community. Milton is the
author and editor of more than 30 books, chapters and articles on educational
media, including The Smart Parents Guide to Kids TV (KQED Books) and Edutopia: Success Stories for Learning in the Digital Age (Jossey-Bass). Milton received an A.B. in social studies from Harvard College
and an M.A. and Ph.D. in communication research from Stanford University. He
has been an assistant professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education
and a research director at Sesame Workshop. In 2007-2008, he will be a Fulbright
New Century Scholar working with an international group on diversity and access
issues in education globally.
C.S. Mott Foundation, Flint, MI
An-Me Chung is a program officer at the C. S. Mott Foundation. Her grantmaking portfolio, Learning Beyond the Classroom, focuses on expanding school-based/school-linked afterschool opportunities and school-community partnerships. The overall grantmaking goal is to sustain quality afterschool programs that complement the school-day and support developmentally appropriate outcomes, especially for traditionally underserved children and youth and their families.
Before joining the Foundation, An-Me collaborated with the U.S. Department of Education and the Mott Foundation on the 21st CCLC Initiative. As an associate director at the National Institute on Out-of-School Time (NIOST), Centers for Research on Women, Wellesley College, she directed the Save the Children Out-of-School Time Rural Initiative where she designed and implemented program improvement and evaluation for Save the Children out-of-school time programs. In addition, she also initiated service as a strategy in out-of-school time in collaboration with the Corporation of National Service. Other past work includes conducting a multi-site evaluation of full-service schools/site-based managed school reform models; assessment of a statewide child care training system; and conducting a statewide survey research project on prevention activities for children and youth.
An-Me Chung received her B.S. from Washington University in St. Louis, a Ph.D. in sociology from Yale University, and completed a post-doctorate fellowship at Columbia University.
Cross and Joftus, LLC, Danville, CA
Christopher T. Cross is chairman of Cross & Joftus, LLC, an education-policy consulting firm. He is also a senior fellow with the Center for Education Policy and a Distinguished Senior Fellow with the Education Commission of the States. In addition, Chris serves as a consultant to the Broad Foundation and the C.S. Mott Foundation. He is also a member of the advisory board for the School Evaluation Service program of Standard and Poor's.
From 1994 to 2002 he served as president and chief executive officer of the Council for Basic Education (CBE). Before joining CBE, Chris served as Director of the Education Initiative of The Business Roundtable and as Assistant Secretary for Educational Research and Improvement in the U.S. Department of Education. From 1994-1997, he served as president of the Maryland State Board of Education. He was a member of the National Education Commission on Time and Learning.
Chris' book (Political Education: National Policy Comes of Age) on the people and events that have shaped federal K-12 education policy from the time of the Eisenhower administration through the passage last year of the 2001 amendments to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act was published in November 2003 by Teachers College Press. Chris has a B.A. from Whittier College and a M.A. in Government from California State University, Los Angeles.
National Association of Elementary School Principals, Alexandria, VA
Dr. Vincent L. Ferrandino is the executive director of the National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP), which serves 28,500 elementary and middle-level principals in the United States, Canada and overseas. As executive director at NAESP, Dr. Ferrandino has expanded the organization's services for urban and middle-level principals and has introduced programs in the international educational arena. He has created new resources for principals including the standards publication, Leading Learning Communities: What Principals Should Know and Be Able To Do; the book series, Essentials for Principals; a monthly electronic newsletter for members; and a quarterly report for state affiliates.
Formerly the executive director and CEO of the New England Association of Schools and Colleges, Vince served his home state of Connecticut as its commissioner of education, as superintendent of schools in Weston, and as superintendent of Regional School District #6, where he also had been a principal. He served as a teacher, unit principal and assistant principal in West Nyack and Mamaroneck, N.Y., and as chairman of the Board of Governors for the U.S. Department of Education's Regional Laboratory at Brown University. He currently serves as president of the Association for the Advancement of International Education.
Vince received a B.A. from Amherst College, and an M.S. and Ed.D. from the University of Bridgeport.
City of Pasadena, CA
Lisa Fowler is Special Assistant to the City Manager in the City of Pasadena, California, and serves as the City's liaison to the Pasadena Unified School District. Lisa has made presentations about the successful ventures between the City of Pasadena and the Pasadena Unified School District to the California League of Cities, Mayors and Council Members Division, Cities Counties & Schools (CCS) Partnership, the Afterschool Network, Foundations, Inc. and the Nation League of Cities. Before this position, Lisa served eight years as a school board member for Pasadena Unified including two years as president. During her tenure, the voters in the school district approved a $240 million bond for facility upgrades and improvements. From 1982 until 1990, Lisa served on the Sierra Madre City Council, a small city east of Pasadena, and was Mayor 1986-1987.
Lisa received her B.A. from Pomona College in Claremont California and her M.A. in Management from The Peter F. Drucker Executive School of Management, Claremont Graduate School.
Arlington, VA
Milton Goldberg is a recognized leader and consultant on education policy, research and practice. Recently, he served as Distinguished Senior Fellow with the Education Commission of the States (ECS). From 1995 – 2002, Milton was executive vice president of the National Alliance of Business (NAB), an organization of business leaders dedicated to the improvement of American education. Before NAB, he was director of the Office of Research in the U. S. Department of Education. In 1994, Milt was the executive director of the congressionally created National Education Commission on Time and Learning. The Time Commission released the report, Prisoners of Time, which explored ways to improve student learning in and out of school. In 1983, he was the executive director of the National Commission on Excellence in Education which issued the landmark report, A Nation at Risk - a report generally credited with starting the nation-wide education reform movement.
He serves on the boards of the George Lucas Education Foundation; the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards; the Albert Shanker Institute; the National Center for Adult Literacy at the University of Pennsylvania; and Jones International University.
Milton began his career as teacher and administrator with the Philadelphia Public Schools. He received a bachelor's and master's degree in English Literature and a Doctorate in Education in curriculum and instruction, all from Temple University.
Peekskill City School District, Peekskill, NY
Judith Johnson was named Superintendent of Schools in the Peekskill City School District on September 1, 2001, becoming the first woman and African-American to serve as the city's school superintendent. Her goal, to demonstrate that culturally and economically diverse school districts can educate all students to high standards, led to the creation of a city-wide task force comprised of teachers, parents, government officials and residents who signed on to create and support a five-year strategic plan that would guide educational renaissance.
Her Peekskill accomplishments include the acquisition of more than 5 million dollars in grant awards to support instructional reform, community passage of a historic $59 million bond referendum that includes the construction of a new middle school, nine state of art high school science labs, a new high school media center, implementation of a technology upgrade plan that provides internet service using wireless laptop labs to support classroom instruction and structural upgrades in all the schools. The district has launched an Extensive Extended Day Program, and in an effort to expand parent engagement, has begun offering Family University Program for parents and residents.
Before coming to Peekskill, she was appointed by Secretary Richard Riley to serve as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education and later as Acting Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education. Previously, Judith served in five NYS school districts, most recently as the Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction in White Plains, New York. In this role, she was the district and state representative to the New Standards project, a national initiative to establish standards-based reform practices in classrooms.
She received the 2002 Congressional Black Caucus Education Brain Trust Award; and the 2003 Kappa Alpha Psi recognition as an outstanding educator. Judith has a B.A. from Brooklyn College, an M.A. from New York University, and a professional diploma from SUNY, New Paltz. She is a doctoral student at Teachers College, Columbia University.
Tiger Woods Foundation, Los Alamitos, CA
Michelle Kim is the director of strategic planning for the Tiger Woods Foundation (TWF), a non-profit organization founded in 1996. Before joining TWF, Michelle served as the Global HR Director of Strategic Services, Products, and CRM at Accenture, LLP, a premier technology and management consulting firm. Before joining Accenture, Michelle managed national accounts at Wunderman Cato Johnson, a subsidiary of Young & Rubicam. During her career, Michelle operated her own consultancy practice advising Silicon Valley start-ups on improving business processes and market expansion strategies.
Corporate Voices for Working Families, Washington, D.C.
Donna Klein is President and CEO of Corporate Voices for Working Families, a nonprofit coalition of leading corporate partners committed to building bipartisan public and private sector support for national and regional public policy issues that strengthen working families. During her 20 years as Vice President at Marriott International, Donna created work life strategy programs and initiated Marriott's Women's Leadership Initiative with a focus on the development and retention of minority and women talent.
She is past chair of The Conference Board's WorkLife Leadership Council, a member of The Conference Board's Diversity Council and is advisory council member of Boston College's Work and Family Roundtable. Donna is also a founder and past co-chair of The Employer Group, a partnership of employers engaged in identifying quality of life solutions for hourly workers. She is an advisory board member of The Berger Institute for Work, Family & Children, Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, CA, and a member of the Family & Children Committee of the National Academy of Science, Washington, D.C. Donna also serves on the advisory board of Bright Horizons Family Solutions, Boston, Massachusetts, and the advisory council of the Southern Institute on Children and Families.
Policy Center at WestEd Phoenix, AZ
Paul Koehler is the Director of the Policy Center at WestEd. In that position, he is responsible for providing information and services to the policymakers in the WestEd region including: Arizona, California, Nevada and Utah. In this position since 2000, he is responsible for providing information and services to the policymakers in the four-state region. He works directly with state superintendents, state department of education staffs, Governors, Legislators and education leaders in these states. He also serves as the Director of the Southwest Regional Comprehensive Center (SWCC), which works with leadership and staff of the state departments of education in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah.
In January of 2003, Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano named Paul as her policy advisor on education. He works in this position on a part-time consulting basis and provides consultation, assistance, advice and research to the Governor on matters relevant to improving the effectiveness of Arizona's K-12 public education system.
Foundations, Inc., Moorestown, NJ
Rhonda Lauer is the CEO of Foundations Inc., a nonprofit organization serving children, families and communities by expanding the use of content-based enrichment programs during non-school hours. The organization provides technical assistance and operates programs in many states, including sites in Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey and Florida.
Rhonda has been a public school educator for 30 years. She was a teacher, principal, administrator and associate superintendent for the School District of Philadelphia. She also served as superintendent of schools for the Southeast Delco School District in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, and was a member of the faculty at Chestnut Hill College. Rhonda is a frequent speaker and lecturer on school reform, labor negotiations and community, parent and business partnerships. She serves on a number of local educational advisory boards and committees, including the board of the Camden, NJ, LEAP Academy Charter School and the advisory committee of Philadelphia Futures.
Rhonda has received numerous awards for her service to public education, including the 2001 Whitney M. Young Jr. Service Award, presented by the Boy Scouts of America.
Policy Evaluation and Research Center, Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ
Michael T. Nettles is the Edmund W. Gordon Chair for Policy Evaluation and Research at the Educational Testing Service.
He has a national reputation as a policy researcher on educational assessment, student performance and achievement, educational equity, and higher education finance policy. Michael has published widely, and his publications reflect his broad interest in public policy, student and faculty access, opportunity, achievement and educational assessment at both the K-12 and postsecondary levels. His civic responsibilities as a board member or officer of various organizations include the Association for the Study of Higher Education, the College Board of Trustees and the National Assessment Governing Board.
Before returning to ETS in July of 2003, Michael had been a professor of Education at the University of Michigan since 1992. From 1996 to 1999, he served as the first executive director of the Fredrick D. Patterson Research Institute of the United Negro College Fund. In that role he published the three-volume African American Education Data Book series and Two Decades of Progress - the most comprehensive books of facts about the educational status and condition of African Americans in the United States ever produced.
Last year, Michael completed his tenure of two terms on the National Assessment Governing Board, which oversees the U.S. Department of Education's National Assessment of Educational Progress, where he has served as a vice chair. He also was a member of the College Board's Board of Trustees, where he chaired the College Board Research and Development Committee. And he served as vice president for Assessment for the University of Tennessee System, Knoxville, Tenn., and as assistant director for Academic Affairs at the Tennessee Higher Education Commission in Nashville.
Michael received his B.S. and M.A. in political science from the University of Tennessee and received his Ph.D. in Higher Education from Iowa State University.
National Council of La Raza, Washington, D.C.
As Vice President for Education at the National Council of La Raza, Delia has oversight of education programs including charter schools, early college high schools, education partnerships and pre-kindergarten and early childhood education efforts.
Previously, she was the Executive Director at the National Association for Bilingual Education and the Director of the Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Language Affairs at the U.S. Department of Education.
Delia began her career as a bilingual kindergarten teacher and Title VII teacher-training project instructor and has held positions in the Houston Independent School District, at the Texas Education Agency and at the Children's Defense Fund.
Annenberg Institute for School Reform, Brown University, Providence, RI
Warren Simmons directs the Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University. He serves on boards and advisory groups of numerous education reform organizations including the Public Education Network, the Cross City Campaign for Urban School Reform, the Merck Institute, the National Center on Education and the Economy and the Rhode Island Children's Crusade.
Before joining the Institute in 1998, Warren headed the Philadelphia Education Fund, a nonprofit organization that played a key role in helping the School District of Philadelphia fund, develop and implement new academic standards, content-based professional development, standards-based curriculum resources and comprehensive school reform as part of the district's Children Achieving reform agenda during David Hornbeck's tenure as the superintendent.
Over his twenty-five year career in education, Warren has worked on urban education issues from several vantage points. As a grant maker at the National Institute of Education and the Annie E. Casey Foundation, he developed and funded initiatives on youth and adult literacy, community development and urban school reform. As Director of Equity Initiatives for the New Standards Project, a coalition of 17 states and 6 school districts, he led teams of researchers and practitioners who designed a performance-based assessment system to advance curricular and instructional reforms. His local experience includes serving as special assistant to the superintendent of schools in Prince George's County, Maryland, where he designed and implemented reforms that improved the achievement of disadvantaged students.
Warren received his B.A. in psychology from Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, and earned a Ph.D. in psychology from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
Department of Education, University of California, Irvine, California
Deborah Lowe Vandell is the Chair of the Department of Education at the University of California, Irvine where she holds a joint appointment in the Department of Psychology and Social Behavior. Before these appointments, Deborah was the Sears Bascom Professor of Education at the University of Wisconsin, Madison where she held appointments in Educational Psychology, Human Development and Family Studies and Psychology.
The author of more than 130 articles, Deborah's research has focused on the effects of developmental contexts (early child care, schools, after-school programs, families, neighborhoods) on children's social, behavioral, and academic functioning. As one of the principal investigators with the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development, she has conducted an intensive study of the development of 1300 children from birth through age 15 years. This work is viewed by many social scientists as one of the most comprehensive studies of the short-term and long-term effects of early child care and the family to date. For the last 20 years, Deborah also has studied the effects of after-school programs, extracurricular activities and self-care with a particular focus on low-income children of color. This body of work is widely cited as evidence of the benefits after-school programs and activities.
Deborah received the faculty distinguished achievement award in the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin and a distinguished teaching award at the University of Texas at Dallas. She is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and the American Psychological Society.
Say Yes to Education, NYC Chapter, New York, NY
Carmen Vega-Rivera is currently the Director of the New York City Chapter of Say Yes to Education (Say Yes), a sponsorship and academic intervention program that works with inner-city students who are confronting enormous educational and social challenges. Say Yes currently operates chapters in Philadelphia, Hartford and Cambridge, and has recently launched its program in New York City, operating programs in five schools in central and east Harlem and serving more than 300 families.
Carmen entered into the national spotlight as a leading spokesperson both for after-school and arts education. Through her years of advocacy, training and advisory activities, she has been responsible for helping to bring the arts into after-school programs throughout New York City. She has taught in New York City's Henry Street Settlement, consulted with the New York City Department of Education's trilingual/ bilingual program and was the Associate Director of the Bronx Museum of the Arts.
Before joining Say Yes, Carmen worked as Executive Director of East Harlem Tutorial Program (EHTP), a nationally-recognized model non-profit that provides education, social services and employment programs to thousands of youth and families in East Harlem. She is a founding member and chair of the Partnership for After School Education (PASE), a large consortium of community-based youth agencies. She is also a senior consultant and advisor for PASE on all national after-school initiatives, with extensive involvement in such cities as San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Atlanta, Miami, Dallas and others.
The Boeing Company
As Director of Global Community Investing for Boeing Global Corporate Citizenship, Joyce serves as the Subject Matter Industry Expert and has overall responsibility for building the company's community investment programs in education. She provides program subject matter expertise, philosophy and strategic direction and interfaces with a network of U.S. and international community investors who act on behalf of The Boeing Company.
Prior to joining the Global Corporate Citizenship team, Walters served as Community Investment Manager in Washington State. In this position, she managed company investments in early learning and K-12 education, and served as the team leader for the Northwest region community investment team. Walters served on the Washington Learns Early Learning/K-12 Transition and Early Learning Finance/Access study teams, and the Governor's K-12 Math Study Group.
Walters joined The Boeing Company in 1988 and brings over 17 years of experience in community investing, employee involvement, public-private partnerships, and managing business/education partnerships. In her role at the company, she launched the company's charitable investments in early learning in 2001.
In addition, she has served as a member of Boeing's Northwest Technical Excellence Leadership Team, represented Boeing on the Museum of Flight's education steering committee and is a former board member for the South Pierce County Chamber of Commerce and Special Olympics games management team. She has also served as a board member for Washington Aerospace Scholars and was a steering committee member for Thrive by Five Washington and Washington Leadership and Assistance for Science Education Reform (LASER).
Currently, Joyce represents Boeing on the Conference Board's Business and Education Council and serves on the company's Higher Education Integration Board and the External Technical Affiliates Integration Board. She also serves on the American Society for Engineering Education task force drafting K-12 Engineering/Engineering Technology Standards and serves on the Time, Learning and Afterschool Task Force.
She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Antioch University and is completing a Master's degree in Organizational Leadership at Gonzaga University.
American Federation of Teachers, Washington, D.C.
Rob Weil is Deputy Director for the Educational Issues Department of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT). In 2001 he joined the national office of the AFT and is responsible for urban education, including implementing school improvement efforts at the district, school and classroom level. He works in all areas of reform, with emphasis on the Elementary and Secondary Education Act; school-focused improvement; professional development, including AFT's Educational Research and Dissemination Program; and all issues related to teacher quality. Weil taught high school in Douglas County, Colorado, for 20 years. He helped develop and implement numerous improvement efforts, including the school district's performance pay plan for teachers. Now in its 13th year, the compensation plan has become the model for hundreds of school districts around the country. In 1995 he was elected president of the Douglas County Federation of Teachers, which represents approximately 3,000 kindergarten through 12th-grade teachers.
Corporation for Public Broadcasting Washington, D.C.
Susan Zelman joined Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) as Senior Vice President for Education and Children's Content in September 2008. Dr. Zelman will develop and oversee the vision, focus and related strategy for CPB's education and children's content initiatives and manage CPB's administration of the Department of Education's Ready To Learn grant.
Previously, Dr. Zelman was the Superintendent of Public Instruction with the Ohio Department of Education since 1999. During that time she has advanced Ohio's educational system from midway among states to seventh this year in Education Week's annual Quality Counts Report.
National and state results show that under her leadership, average student scores on state tests have increased and high school students now outperform national SAT and ACT averages. The Goldman Sachs Foundation recently named Ohio a winner of its Prize for Excellence in International Education, citing innovative programs that prepare Ohio students for the 21st century global marketplace.
Dr. Zelman has held executive posts at the Missouri and Massachusetts departments of education and chaired the Department of Education at Emmanuel College in Boston. She held a five-year appointment with the Education Technology Center of the Harvard Graduate School of Education and was the recipient of the National Science Research Opportunity Award for Women through Columbia Teachers College.
Gannett Newspapers named Dr. Zelman as one of the 10 most powerful and influential women in Ohio state government. She holds a Ph.D. in education from the University of Michigan.
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