Next conference: March 6-7, 2009, New York City

2008 FEATURED SPEAKERS
Celebration 2008 featured exciting special guests including renowned primatologist Jane Goodall, and ocean explorer Jean-Michel Cousteau. Featured speakers and panels focused on science, global awareness, integration of technology into classrooms, and important questions of educational policy.

Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE
Founder, the Jane Goodall Institute and UN Messenger of Peace
Jean-Michel Cousteau
Ocean Explorer and Environmentalist
Alek Wek
International Supermodel, Entrepreneur, and Author
Megan McCormick
Host, Globe Trekker
History Detectives
Tukufu Zuberi
Gwendolyn Wright
Co-Hosts, PBS History Detectives
Joseph A. Aguerrebere
President and CEO, National Board for Professional Teaching Standards
David Brancaccio
Host and Senior Editor, NOW
Alan Brightman
Senior Policy Director, Special Communities, Yahoo! Inc.
David Bynum
Founding Director, Long Island Group Advancing Science Education (LIGASE), and the Center for Science and Mathematics Education, Stony Brook University
Michael John Carley
Executive Director, GRASP
Majora Carter
Founder, Sustainable South Bronx
Karen Cator
Former Chair, Partnership for 21st Century Skills
Director, Education Leadership and Advocacy, Apple
Milton Chen
Executive Director, The George Lucas Educational Foundation
Jay M. Cohen
Under Secretary for Science and Technology, Department of Homeland Security
Keith Devlin
Mathematician, Stanford University and NPR's "Math Guy"
Becky DuFour
Author & Consultant, Professional Learning Communities
Richard DuFour
Author and Consultant, Professional Learning Communities
Johanna Duncan-Poitier
Senior Deputy Commissioner of Education (P-16), New York State Education Department
Richard Falco
President, Vision Project
Dan Flockhart
Author, Fantasy Sports and Mathematics Series
Marilyn Friend
Professor of Special Education, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Edwin H. Gragert
Executive Director, iEARN-USA
James J. Hennessy
Dean, Graduate School of Education, Fordham University
Maria Hinojosa
Senior Correspondent, NOW
Margaret Honey
Senior Vice President for Strategic Initiatives and Research at Wireless Generation
Richard C. Iannuzzi
President, New York State United teachers (NYSUT)
Robert Glass & Jeffrey Kane
Dean, Global College, Long Island University
Vice President for Academic Affairs, Long Island University
Ken Kay
President, Partnership on 21st Century Skills
Joel Klein
Chancellor, New York City Department of Education
Janice Koch
Professor of Science Education, Hofstra University
President, Association for Science Teacher Education
Mitchell Kriegman
Creator and Executive Producer, It's a Big Big World
Robert Lippincott
Senior Vice President for Education, PBS
James Lochner
USRA Education Scientist and Director of NASA's Imagine the Universe!
Ernest A. Logan
President, Council of School Supervisors and Administrators (CSA)
Timothy Magner
Director, Office of Educational Technology, U.S. Department of Education
Michelle Mann
Senior Group Manager, Corporate Affairs and Community Relations, Adobe
Deborah Meier and Diane Ravitch
Educational Reformer, Writer and Activist Education Historian and Former Assistant U.S. Secretary of Education
Richard Mills
Commissioner, New York State Education Department
Barbara Morgan
Astronaut, NASA Johnson Space Center
Mark Nieker
President, Pearson Foundation
Richard Ognibene
2008 New York State Teacher of the Year
Brett Pierce
Executive Director, Panwapa
Joyce Powell
President, New Jersey Education Association (NJEA)
Michael Pritchard
Motivational Speaker, Expert on Communication, Learning through Laughter
Will Richardson
Learner in Chief, Connective Learning
Linda G. Roberts
Former Director, U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Technology
Sharon Robinson
President and CEO, American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE)
Rafael Pi Roman
Executive Producer and Host, Thirteen/WNET New York
Carl Safina
President & Co-Founder, Blue Ocean Institute
Henry B. Schacht
Managing Director and Senior Advisor, Warburg Pincus LLC
Director, Alcatel-Lucent
Cyndy Scheibe
Executive Director, Project Look Sharp, Ithaca College
Dennis Sparks
Thinking Partners
Jearlyn & Billy Steele
Performers
Will Steger
Polar Explorer and Founder, Will Steger Foundation
Vivien Stewart
Vice President for Education, Asia Society
Bruce Stillman
President, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Elizabeth Streb
Choreographer and Founder, S.L.A.M. (STREB Lab for Action Mechanics)
Carola Suárez-Orozco
Professor of Applied Psychology and Co-Director, Immigration Studies @ NYU
Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco
University Professor and The Courtney Sale Ross University Professor of Globalization and Education, and Co-Director, Immigration Studies @ NYU
Bernie Trilling
Global Director, Education Strategy & Partnerships, Oracle Education Foundation
Marc Tucker
President, National Center on Education and the Economy
Vice-Chairman and Staff Director, New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce
David Warlick
Author and Consultant, The Landmark Project
Randi Weingarten
President, United Federation of Teachers (UFT)
Brenda Welburn
Executive Director, National Association of State Boards of Education (NASBE)
Tom Welch
CEO, President, T Welch Consulting
Dan Werner
Executive Producer, MacNeil/Lehrer Productions
John I. Wilson
Executive Director National Education Association
Judy Woodruff
Senior Correspondent, The News Hour with Jim Lehrer


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