The @MLTSinHawaii Newsletter
Special Edition: Game Changer Series
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Game Changer Series:
Stephanie Malia Krauss
Stephanie Malia Krauss is a mom with a background in education and social work. Eight years ago, she left her work in schools because she knew that helping students earn a high school diploma was not the same as getting them ready for adulthood. Since then, she has been on a mission to figure out what kids really need to be ready for college, work, and life. Stephanie is the author of Making It: What Today's Kids Need for Tomorrow's World, a senior advisor to Jobs for the Future, and a consultant for the Youth Transition Funders Group.
Game Changer Series:
Linda Darling Hammond
Linda Darling-Hammond, President of Learning Policy Institute, is Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education Emeritus at Stanford University where she is Faculty Director of the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education. Her research and policy work focus on issues of educational equity, teaching quality, and school reform. Her book, The Flat World and Education: How America’s Commitment to Equity will Determine our Future, received the coveted Grawemeyer Award in 2012. Among her most recent books are Getting Teacher Evaluation Right: What Really Matters for Effectiveness and Improvement (2013) and Beyond the Bubble Test: How Performance Assessments Support 21st Century Learning (2014).
Game Changer Series:
Jal Mehta and Sarah Fine
Jal Mehta is a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. His research explores the role of different forms of knowledge in tackling major social and political problems, particularly problems of human improvement. Jal is the author of The Allure of Order: High Hopes, Dashed Expectations and the Troubled Quest to Remake American Schooling (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013). Sarah Fine is an educator and scholar working at the intersection of practice and research. She currently directs the San Diego Teacher Residency, hosted at the High Tech High Graduate School of Education, and also teaches courses in educational leadership at the University of California San Diego. Her recent book, coauthored with Jal Mehta, is In Search of Deeper Learning: The Quest to Transform the American High School. In 2019, the book won the Grawemeyer award in Education.
Game Changer Series:
Pasi Sahlberg
Pasi Sahlberg is Finnish educator and author. He is former Director General at the Finnish Ministry of Education and was a visiting professor at Harvard University's Graduate School of Education in 2014-2016. Pasi is experienced classroom teacher, trainer of teachers and school leaders and advisor to education policy-makers. He is an international speaker and writer on school improvement and educational change. Pasi's many awards include the 2013 Grawemeyer Award in the US and the Rockefeller Foundation's Resident at the Bellagio Center in 2017. His latest books are FinnishED Leadership (2018), and Let the Children Play (2019). He is professor of education policy at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, where he lives with his wife and two sons.
Game Changer Series:
Carlos Moreno
Carlos Moreno has been a teacher, a principal, a director, and now a Chief Executive Officer. But through it all he has been and continues to be an observer and a learner. A proud native New Yorker, Carlos is a passionate educational trailblazer committed to supporting school and district leaders to create high-quality, non-traditional schools designed to tackle systemic issues related to equity in education. He currently serves as Executive Director for Big Picture Learning, a nonprofit organization that, since 1995, has developed over 150 such schools in the United States and throughout the world. He also co-founded and leads the Deeper Learning Equity Fellowship in partnership with the Internationals Network for Public Schools. Carlos holds undergraduate degrees in marketing and business from Johnson & Wales University along with a Master’s Degree in Educational Leadership.