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Focusing Business Leaders on the Important Role of Public Education Focusing business leaders on the important role of public education for the future of North Carolina and engaging them in using their leadership to build support for sustaining and improving North Carolina’s system of public schools. Sponsors Agenda Wednesday, May 30, 2012 Setting the Stage for Education Changes 5:45 – 6:30 p.m. Welcome Reception (Ballroom 1 – Pre-function Area) 6:30 – 6:45 p.m. Welcome & Introductions (Ballroom 1) Leslie Winner, Director, Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation 6:45 – 7:20 p.m. Dinner Served (Ballroom 1) 7:00 – 7:20 p.m. A View into the Future Stan Kelly, Lead Regional President, Carolinas Community Banking, Wells Fargo & Company Thom Tillis, Speaker, N.C. House of Representatives 7:20 – 8:20 p.m. Setting a Course for Excellence: An Exchange of Perspectives Moderated by: Anita Brown-Graham, Executive Director, Institute for Emerging Issues James Holshouser, Governor, State of North Carolina (1973-1977) James B. Hunt, Jr., Governor, State of North Carolina (1977-85; 1993-2001) Bill Bates, Chief of Staff, Council on Competitiveness and Executive Director, Global Federation of Competitiveness Councils, Jon Schnur, Executive Chairman & Co-Founder of America Achieves Closing & Wrap Up 8:20 – 8:30 p.m. Stan Kelly and Leslie Winner Thoughts From the Top Introduction by: Gov. James Holshouser Agenda Beverly Perdue, Governor, State of North Carolina Thursday, May 31, 2012 A Conversation with North Carolina’s Education Leadership 7:00 – 8:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast (Ballroom 1 – Pre-function Area) Moderated by: Ann Goodnight, Director, Community Relations, SAS Institute Inc. 8:00 – 8:10 a.m. Welcome (Ballroom 1) June St.Clair Atkinson, State Superintendent, N.C. Department of Public Instruction Gov. James B. Hunt, Jr Bill Harrison, Chairman, N.C. Board of Education Tom Ross, President, The University of North Carolina 8:10 – 8:35 a.m. Strengthening Our Education System Sharon Morrissey, Senior Vice President and Chief Academic Officer, Introduction by: Gov. James Holshouser N.C. Community College System Phil Berger, President Pro Tempore, N.C. General Assembly LUNCH – Disrupting Class, Again (Ballroom 1) 8:35 – 8:55 a.m. ate of Public Education and My Bottom Line Introduction by: Jim Whitehurst, President and CEO, Red Hat Brad Wilson, President and CEO, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina Michael Horn, Executive Director, Innosight Institute Education Practice and Co-Author 8:55 – 9:35 a.m. A Changing North Carolina: Education Attainment, of Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns Demographic Trends and New Employer Needs Introduction by: Judith Rizzo, Director, James B. Hunt, Jr. Institute BREAK (Ballroom 1 – Pre-function Area) for Educational Leadership and Policy Ways Other States are Moving Ahead Jim Johnson, Director, Urban Investment Strategies Center, Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Moderated by: Diane Adams, Executive Vice President of Culture and Talent, Allscripts Private Enterprise; William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Linda Noonan, Executive Director, Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education Jamie Woodson, President and CEO, Tennessee S.C.O.R.E 9:35 – 10:15 a.m. Driven by the Numbers: An Examination of Education Introduction by: Tricia Willoughby, Executive Director, North Carolina Business Discussion: A Model of Engagement for North Carolina Committee for Education Facilitated by John McArthur, Executive Vice President, Progress Energy and Cynthia Marshall, President, AT&T North Carolina J.B. Buxton, Founder & Executive Director, Education Innovations Group Positioning North Carolina to Finish First: 10:15 – 10:30 a.m. BREAK (Ballroom 1 – Pre-function Area) Recognizing the Need for Leadership Introduction by: Gov. James B. Hunt, Jr. 10:30 – 11:00 a.m Driven by the Changed Context Introduction by: Gov. James B. Hunt, Jr. Linda Darling Hammond, Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education, School of Education, Stanford University Common Core State Standards for K-12 Students (video) Response by: Sam Houston, President and CEO, N.C. Science, Discussion: Getting Going Mathematics & Technology Education Center Facilitated by: Leslie Winner 11:00 – 11:25 a.m. Opportunities and Challenges from a Local Perspective Closing Remarks Introduction by: Leslie Winner James Holshouser & Gov. James B. Hunt, Jr. Maurice “Mo” Green, Superintendent, Guilford County Schools Phil Berger Speakers North Carolina Senate Phil Berger is the President Pro Tempore of the North Carolina Senate, Diane Adams and the first Republican Senate leader in more than a century. He Allscripts represents the state’s 26th Senate district, which includes Guilford and Rockingham counties. Senator Berger was first elected in 2000. Diane Adams leads Culture and Talent for Allscripts. Her team is Senator Berger earned a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Averett focused on recruiting, developing and recognizing the very best talent College, and a law degree from Wake Forest University. He lives with while building a culture of passionate, engaged team members. As his wife, Pat, in Eden, where he practices law. He has three children – the Executive Vice President of Culture and Talent for Allscripts, Diane Kevin, Phil Jr., and Ashley – and four grandchildren. is accountable for shaping the human resources vision, culture, talent and executive development strategies that will enable the company Anita Brown-Graham to meet rapidly-changing business and market requirements. The Institute for Emerging Issues Culture and Talent team is focused on building a high-performance environment where people, learning and fun are the priorities. Anita Brown-Graham joined the Institute for Emerging Issues (IEI) as director in January 2007. Housed at NC State University, IEI is June St. Clair Atkinson a public policy organization committed to North Carolina’s future Department of Public Instruction competitiveness. Anita leads the organization in galvanizing public, private, and nonprofit sector leaders around emerging issues in June St. Clair Atkinson is the first woman elected State health, education, environments, and the economy. Her role is to Superintendent of the Public Schools in North Carolina build consensus for public policy change. She works with diverse and has served in this position since August 2005. As State and often fractious constituencies and, through collaboration and Superintendent, Dr. Atkinson oversees almost 1.5 million students in innovation, Anita has helped IEI accomplish impressive outcomes. over 2,500 public schools. She has more than 35 years of experience in education. During her career, she has served as a chief consultant J.B. Buxton and director in the areas of business education, career and technical Education Innovations Group education, and instructional services within the NCDPI. A former business education teacher, Dr. Atkinson has been involved in John B. (J.B.) Buxton is the founding principal of the Education instruction and curriculum development throughout her career. Innovations Group, a consulting practice focused on state education strategies for improving PreK-12 and postsecondary Bill Bates public education. Buxton works with groups such as the Bill & Council on Competitiveness Melinda Gates Foundation, the Southern Regional Education Board, the US Department of Education, Complete College America, William Bates is Chief of Staff of the Council on Competitiveness state departments of education, and nonprofit organizations on and Executive Director of the Global Federation of Competitiveness such issues as school turnaround, teacher effectiveness, change Councils. As Chief of Staff, Bill provides policy analysis and strategic management and implementation, and college completion. Prior consultation to the president & CEO and serves as a member to starting the Education Innovations Group, Buxton served as the of the senior leadership team. As the Executive Director of the Deputy State Superintendent of the North Carolina Department of Global Federation of Competitiveness Councils, a network of over Public Instruction. 30 competitiveness councils from around the world, he manages the U.S. Council’s role as secretariat to the GFCC and serves as the principal point of contact to the member organizations of the Global Federation. Linda Darling-Hammond Bill Harrison Stanford University North Carolina Board of Education Linda Darling-Hammond is Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Dr. Bill Harrison is the chairman of the North Carolina Board Education at Stanford University where she has launched the of Education and serves as Governor Bev Perdue’s advisor for Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education and the School education transformation. Dr. Harrison was appointed to the Redesign Network and served as faculty sponsor for the Stanford State Board of Education in March 2009 and appointed in Teacher Education Program. She is a former president of the September 2010 to chair the Governor’s Education Transformation American Educational Research Association and member of the Commission, which oversees the state’s implementation of the National Academy of Education. In 2006, this report was named federal Race to the Top grant. In addition to more than 11 years as one of the most influential affecting U.S. education and Darling- superintendent of Cumberland County Schools, he also served as Hammond was named one of the nation’s ten most influential
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