ALBERT SHANKER INSTITUE Unions Shaping Good Schools: Where Every Child Graduates; Every Diploma Reflects Achievement June 4-5, 2007
PARTICIPANTS
Paul E. Almeida President, AFL-CIO Department for Professional Employees
Karen Aronowitz President, United Teachers of Dade
Brian Baker Professional Issues Director, Texas Federation of Teachers
Barbara Byrd-Bennett School Executive-in-Residence, Cleveland State University; former chief executive officer, Cleveland, Ohio, Municipal School District
Colleen Callahan Director of Professional Issues, Rhode Island Federation of Teachers and Health Professionals
Leo Casey Special Representative for High Schools, United Federation of Teachers
Kathleen Cashin Regional Superintendent, Region 5, New York City
Jean Clements President, Hillsborough Classroom Teachers Association
David K. Cohen John Dewey Collegiate Professor of Education and Professor of Public Policy, University of Michigan.
Toni Cortese Executive Vice President, American Federation of Teachers,
Rudolph Crew Superintendent, Miami-Dade County Public Schools
Thomas R. Donahue Past President, AFL-CIO
Bob Edwards Host, The Bob Edwards Show; Interim National President, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists
Marian Flickinger President, Norfolk Federation of Teachers
Benjamin Frisbie Chair, NYSUT Committee on Teacher Centers; Member, NYSUT Board of Directors
Nanciann Gatta Assistant Superintendent, Niles Twp. High School District 219
Milton Goldberg Former Director, Office of Research, U.S. Department of Education
1 Sam Holtzman President, Warwick Teachers Union
Rena Honea Director, Alliance-AFT Education Center, Inc.
Sol Hurwitz Past President, Committee for Economic Development
Susan Moore Johnson Carl H. Pforzheimer, Jr. Professor of Teaching & Learning, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Richard Kahlenberg Senior Fellow, Century Foundation
Ted Kirsch President, Philadelphia Federation of Teachers, Local 3
Nat LaCour Secretary-Treasurer, American Federation of Teachers
Francine Lawrence President, Toledo Federation of Teachers, Local 250
Sam Leiken (Board meeting/Dinner) Council on Competitiveness
Michael Maccoby President, The Maccoby Group
Herb Magidson Former Vice-President, American Federation of Teachers
Edward McElroy President, American Federation of Teachers
Rick Muir President, Anderson Federation of Teachers/Indiana Federation of Teachers
Dan Montgomery President, North Suburban Teachers Union, Local 1274
Diane Ravitch Research Professor of Education. New York University; Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
Mary Cathryn Ricker President, St. Paul Federation of Teachers
Laura Rico President, ABC Federation of Teachers, Local 2317, Hawaiian Gardens, CA
Gary Smuts Superintendent, ABC Unified School District
Katharine Strunk Stanford University School of Education
John Tarka 2 President, Pittsburgh Federation of Teachers
Adam Urbanski President, Rochester Teachers Association
Randi Weingarten President, United Federation of Teachers (UFT),
Suzanne M. Wilson Chair, Department of Teacher Education, Michigan State University
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American Federation of Teachers Staff Kris Kemmerer John Mitchell Howard Nelson
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