Teaching & Learning Celebration . Featured Speakers

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