PANEL: Teaching 2030

PANEL: Teaching 2030

With support from MetLife Foundation, Barnett Berry and a team of 12 accomplished teachers have explored an urgent question: What must America do to build a 21st century teaching profession that can fully meet the needs of today’s iGeneration and the millions of students who will enter our public schools between now and the year 2030? Drawing on their book Teaching 2030, Berry and his colleagues will lead an interactive session to share their vision — beginning with an animated story that captures the big ideas of their book, leading to a rich discussion of teaching’s past, present, and future — and what must be done now to elevate the profession that students of today and tomorrow deserve.

BIOGRAPHY

Barnett Berry is the founder and President of the Center for Teaching Quality — a nonprofit dedicated to dramatically increasing student achievement by advancing teaching as a 21st-century, results oriented profession. His new book, Teaching 2030, penned with 12 expert teachers from CTQ’s Teacher Leaders Network, poses a provocative and hopeful future for teaching.

***BOOK SIGNING AT ONSITE BARNES & NOBLE BOOKSTORE TO FOLLOW SESSION (click here for schedule)

Fred Frelow is the Education and Scholarship program officer for the Ford Foundation’s Educational Opportunity and Scholarship Unit. Previously he served as the Director of Early College Initiatives at the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation where he was responsible for managing the development of 14 early college high schools. Prior to joining the Woodrow Wilson, Frelow was Associate Director in the Working Communities division of the Rockefeller Foundation where he was in charge of the continuing development and implementation of the Foundation’s school reform program. He has also served as Director of National Affairs and Associate Director of Urban Initiatives for the National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future at Teachers College, Columbia University; Director of Curriculum for the Nyack, New York public schools; and Director of the US Department of Education’s Magnet School Assistance Project at Louis Armstrong Middle School in Queens, New York.

Emily Vickery is an innovator educator who has worked in a wide variety of settings, from teaching in an economically disadvantaged urban high school to serving as a consultant to a state governor. The constant in her work has been a love of teaching, learning, and technology. Vickery has served on the Alabama Governor’s Council on Education Technology and represented the state of Alabama on a task force for the U.S. Department of Education. From 1997 to 2003, Vickery served as a private educational consultant focusing on technology. Her clients included the governor of the State of Colorado, the Education Commission of the States, and Apple, Inc. In 2009, she accepted the position of 21st-century learning specialist at an innovative parochial school in Florida. There, she supports teachers in curriculum, instruction, assessment, learning management, and the use of digital tools.

Jose Vilson is a math teacher, coach, and data analyst for a public middle school in the Inwood/Washington Heights neighborhood of New York City, as part of the NYC Department of Education. He is beginning his 6th year as a teacher, having finished the New York City Teaching Fellows program in 2007. He is on CTQ’s TeacherSolutions 2030 team, co-authoring the book Teaching 2030: What We Must Do for Our Students and Our Public Schools–Now and in the Future. He has worked on creating professional development for his fellow teachers on such topics as working on goals for the classroom and using the ARIS system, a data management system under the NYC Department of Education. He is also a committed poet, Web designer and developer, mentor, and blogger for the Education section of The Huffington Post, named one of the top 20 teacher blogs by Scholastic Inc.