Roster of Participants
2018 Winter Commissioners Meeting Roster of Participants
November 27, 2018
ALABAMA Stephanie Bell Alabama State Board of Education Jim Purcell State Commission on Higher Education
ALASKA Nancy Norman Norman Consultant Services
ARIZONA Josh Barnett NIET Janice Palmer Helios Education Foundation
ARKANSAS Terri Hardy TNH Educational Consulting, Inc.
CALIFORNIA Tressa Pankovits AVID Center Gavin Payne GPC Advisors Ilene Straus California State Board of Education Erika Webb-Hughes Pearson Education Shirley Weber California Assembly Terry Whitney College Board
COLORADO Katy Anthes Colorado Department of Education Jennifer Norford Marzano Research Denise Pearson SHEEO Gerrit Westervelt WestEd
CONNECTICUT Ellen Cohn Connecticut Department of Education Dianna Wentzell Connecticut Department of Education
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DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Carissa Miller Council of Chief State School Officers Rory O'Sullivan Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Nancy Segal Educational Testing Service Joan Wodiska National Conference of State Legislatures
FLORIDA Anne Schiano MetaMetrics
GEORGIA Kenneth Bergman AdvancED/Measured Progress Heather Kinsey AdvancED Stephen L. Pruitt SREB
HAWAII Joan Husted Education Institute of Hawaii Donna Kim Hawaii State Senate Alan Oshima Hawaiian Electric Company
IDAHO Wendy Horman Idaho House of Representatives Marilyn Whitney Office of the Idaho Governor Luci Willits Curriculum Associates
ILLINOIS Sean Ryan HMH Tony Smith Illinois State Board of Education
INDIANA Julia Watkins NWEA
IOWA Linda Fandel Office of Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds Cindy Winckler Iowa State Legislature Ryan Wise Iowa Department of Education
KANSAS Diane DeBacker Kansas Department of Commerce Will Krebs Project Lead The Way
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KENTUCKY Amanda Ellis Kentucky Department of Education Aaron Thompson Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education
LOUISIANA Erin Bendily Louisiana Department of Education Patrick Dobard New Schools for New Orleans Douglas Harris Tulane University- Education Research Alliance for New Orleans Kim Hunter Reed Louisiana Board of Regents Patrice Pujol NIET Donald Songy Office of the Louisiana Governor
MARYLAND Bill Ferguson Maryland General Assembly Kate Hetherington Howard Community College Adrienne Jones House of Delegates Andy Plattner Plattner Communications Gregory Schuckman University of Central Florida
MASSACHUSETTS Paul Toner Teach Plus Donna Traynham Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
MICHIGAN Peyton Rodriguez NWEA
MINNESOTA Sondra Erickson Minnesota House of Representatives Jeff Peterson Questar Assessment Inc. Charles Wiger Minnesota State Senate
MISSISSIPPI Phil Bryant State of Mississippi Alfred Rankins Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning Pat Ross Office of the Mississippi Governor Laurie Smith Office of the Mississippi Governor Alex Williams Office of the Mississippi Governor
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MONTANA Elsie Arntzen Montana Office of Public Instruction Alison Harmon Montana State University Siri Smillie Montana Governor's Office
NEBRASKA Matthew Blomstedt Nebraska Department of Education John Bonaiuto Nebraska Assn. of School Boards
NEVADA Carolyn Edwards Clark County School District Brian Mitchell State of Nevada- Governor's Office of Science, Innovation & Technology
NEW JERSEY Cary Booker Office of the New Jersey Governor Bobbi Newman American Institutes for Research Shirley Turner New Jersey Senate
NEW MEXICO Barbara Damron New Mexico Higher Education Department Alan Morgan High Desert Government Relations, Inc. Joseph Shepard Western New Mexico University Bill Soules New Mexico Senate
NEW YORK Jessie Lyons Scholastic Alexander Mayer MDRC Michael Woods Questar Assessment
NORTH CAROLINA Geoff Coltrane Office of the North Carolina Governor Malbert Smith MetaMetrics Eric Snider North Carolina State Board of Education Margie Vandeven SAS Mike Ward The MEWs Educational Consulting/ Rep. of Renaissance
NORTH DAKOTA Kirsten Baesler North Dakota Department of Public Instruction
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Mark Hagerott North Dakota University System Donald Schaible North Dakota Senator
OHIO Lillian Pace KnowledgeWorks Terrance Sullivan KnowledgeWorks
OKLAHOMA Tony Hutchison Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education
OREGON Ben Cannon Oregon Higher Education Coordinating Commission
PENNSYLVANIA Trish Brennan-Gac American Institutes for Research Sarah Galbally Pennsylvania Governor's Office Pedro Rivera Pennsylvania Department of Education David Volkman Pennsylvania Department of Education
TENNESSEE Dolores Gresham Tennessee State Senate Tammy Grissom Tennessee School Boards Association
TEXAS Melanie Diaz Boston Consulting Group Evan Erdberg Proximity Learning Inc. Lisa Brady Gill Edmentum, Inc. Richard Rhodes Austin Community College District David Saba Teachers of Tomorrow Larry Taylor Texas Senate Education Committee Uri Treisman The University of Texas, Charles A. Dana Center Royce West Texas State Senate
UTAH David Buhler Utah System of Higher Education Allen Clarkson Western Governors University Tami Pyfer Office of the Utah Governor
VIRGINIA Kristen Amundson National Association of State Boards of Education
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Peter Blake State Council of Higher Education for Virginia James Lane Virginia Department of Education Atif Qarni Office of the Virginia Governor Patricia Wright MetaMetrics, inc.
WASHINGTON Paula O'Gorman Renaissance
WEST VIRGINIA Amelia Courts The Education Alliance Steven Paine West Virginia Department of Education Robert Plymale West Virginia State Senate
WISCONSIN John Reinemann Wisconsin Higher Educational Aids Board
WYOMING Jillian Balow Wyoming Department of Education Kathy Vetter Wyoming Education Association
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