ROSTER OF PARTICIPANTS Denver Marriott City Center Denver, CO Presented by the Education Commission of the States Education Commision of the States 2015 National Forum on Education Policy June 29 – July 1, 2015 Denver, CO ALABAMA ARIZONA Stephanie Bell Elvy Barton Member Senior Policy Advisor Alabama State Board of Education AZ House of Representatives Sally Howell Ashley Berg Executive Director Executive Director of Policy Development & Alabama Association of School Boards Government Relations Arizona Department Eric Mackey Executive Director Michael Madden School Superintendents of Alabama Assistant Legislative Research Analyst Arizona House of Representatives Lisa Woodard Governmental Affairs Director Janice Palmer School Superintendents of Alabama Director of Governmental Relations & Public Affairs ALASKA AZ School Boards Association Lynn Gattis Samuel Stone Representative Executive Director Alaska Legislture Civics Education Initiative Mike Hanley Aaron Wonders Commissioner Research Analyst State Department of Education AZ House of Representatives Nancy Norman ARKANSAS Education Consultant Norman Consultant Services Ginny Blankenship Legislative Analyst Deena Paramo Arkansas Bureau of Legislative Research Superintendent of Schools Matanuska Susitna Borough School District Joyce Elliott Senator Gary Stevens Arkansas Senate Senator Alaska State Senate Terri Hardy President TNH Educational Consulting, Inc. Kenneth James Delaine Eastin Senior Advisor Former Supt. of Public Instruction BloomBoard, Inc State of CA Ouida Newton Jane Foley 2015 Arkansas Teacher of the Year Senior Vice President, Milken Educator Poyen High School Awards Milken Family Foundation ARMED FORCES EUROPE Julia Gonzales Sarah Loomis Director, Government Relations Instructional Technology Coach Amplify DoDEA Judith Heiman CALIFORNIA Principal Fiscal & Policy Analyst Ruth Chung Wei California Legislative Analyst's Office Director of Assessment Research & Gisele Huff Development Executive Director Stanford University Jaquelin Hume Foundation Chris Cross Erika Hughes Chairman Director of Corporate Affairs Çross & Joftus Pearson Jannelle Kubinec Janine Ingram Senior Program Director Vice President of Philanthropic Partnerships WestEd MIND Research Institute Thomas Arnett Kenneth Kapphahn Education Research Fellow Fiscal Analyst Clayton Christensen Institute Legislative Analyst's Office Becca Bracy Knight Michael Kirst Executive Director President The Broad Center for the Management of California State Board Of Education School Systems Kelly LaMar J. Kirk Brown Thank America's Teachers Director of Science and STEM Farmers Insurance Integration/Innovation San Joaquin County Office of Education Jason Lange CEO/Co-Founder William Cirone BloomBoard County Superintendent of Schools Santa Barbara County Education Office Silver McDonald Chief Commercial Officer Andrew Coulson BrightBytes Chief Strategist and Vice President of Data and Evaluation Gavin Payne MIND Research Institute Director, US Policy, Advocacy & Communications Julie Bell Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Education Group Director NCSL Alejandra Rincon Book author Jane Best Undocumented Immigrants and Higher Chief Strategy Officer Education McREL International Kristin Ruff Amanda Bickel Director of Business Development Chief Legislative Analyst Metrix Advisors Joint Budget Committee, Colorado General Assembly Harold Stanislaw Professor of Psychology Marianne Boeke California State University, Stanislaus Senior Research Associate NCHEMS Shirley Weber Assemblymember Cody Buchanan California State Legislature Community Partnership Specialist Colorado Department of Education Daniel Zavala State Policy Director Lorna Candler StudentsFirst Director Colorado Division of Private Occupational Richard Zeiger Schools Associate Superintendent California Department of Education Adina Chapman Director of Higher Education Policy Analysis COLORADO The College Board Josh Abram Steffanie Clothier Senior Fiscal Analyst Senior Policy Director Legislative Council of the Colorado General Alliance for Early Success Assembly Michael Cohen Chris Ammons Manager of Assessment Support Research Analyst Denver Public Schools CO Department of Higher Education Brita Darling Cherise Anderson Senior Staff Attorney Teacher Colorado Office of Legislative Legal Douglas County, Colorado School District Services John Armstrong Heather DeLange Information Analyst Academic Policy Officer State Higher Education Executive Officers Colorado Department of Higher Education Beth Bean Sunny Deye Chief Research Officer Program Principal CO Department of Higher Education National Conference of State Legislatures Marco Dorado Patrick Lane Project Manager Rhonda Epper WICHE Chief Student & Academic Affairs Officer Kelly Latterman Colorado Department of Higher Education Research Analyst II Michelle Exstrom National Conference of State Legislatures Education Program Director Sarah Leibrandt National Conference of State Legislatures Project Coordinator Alicia Garcia Western Interstate Commission for Higher Senior Policy Analyst and REL Midwest Education Deputy Director David Longanecker American Institutes for Research President Lisa Gezelter Western Interstate Commission for Higher Research Analyst Education Colorado Legislative Council Chanda Lowrance Eric Gorski Student Reporter Metropolitan State University of Denver The Denver Post Joel Moore Chelsea Henkel Senior Legislative Editor Colorado Policy Analyst Colorado Office of Legislative Legal Stand for Children Services Marshall Hill Inta Morris Executive Director Chief Advocacy and Outreach Officer National Council for State Authorization Colorado Department of Higher Education Reciprocity Agreements (NC-SARA) Laura Mutton Suzanne Hultin School Accountability Committee Chair Policy Specialist Mountain Vista High School National Conference of State Legislatures John Myers Dwight Jones Vice President Superintendent in Residence APA Consulting Discovery Communications Robert Palaich Stephen M. Jordan, Ph.D. President President Augenblick, Palaich and Associates Metropolitan State University of Denver Jeanette Patterson Rachel Kurtz-Phelan Fellow Research Analyst EPFP Fellow Colorado Legislative Council Staff Julie Pelegrin Jennifer Landrum Assistant Director President and CEO Colorado Office of Legislative Legal Denver Preschool Program Services Lori Pidick Christine Tharaldson Director of Development & Communications Manager, Global Accounts PEBC HelmsBriscoe Jennifer Price Daniel Thatcher Director of External Affairs Senior Policy Specialist AT&T National Conference of State Legislatures Barth Quenzer Kathleen Thirkell Instructional Curriculum Specialist Math Chairman Denver Public Schools Lewis-Palmer High School Vanessa Quintana Nancy Todd Program Consultant Senator Colorado Department of Education State of Colorado Andrew Rauch Evy Valencia Lead Finance Analyst Policy Advisor Colorado Department of Higher Education Office of Governor Hickenlooper Yesenia Robles Lauren Victor Staff Writer Talent Research and Policy Analyst The Denver Post CO Department of Higher Education Casey Sacks Ashley Wallace Grant Project Manager Education Program Manager Colorado Community College System National Conference of State Legislatures Ann Schimke Jeff Wasden Reporter/Community Editor President Chalkbeat Colorado Colorado Business Roundtable Karen Schimke Madeleine Webster Research Analyst II Christina Sedney National Conference of State Legislatures Project Coordinator Western Interstate Commission for Higher Dustin Weeden Education Policy Specialist National Conference of State Legislators Sara Shelton Director of Civic Engagement Initiatives Cyrus Weinberger The Civic Canopy Principal Red Hawk Elementary, St. Vrain Valley Jennifer Sobanet School District Chief Operating Officer Colorado Dept. of Higher Education Matthew Weyer Policy Specialist Amber Tafoya National Conference of State Legislatures Director of External Affairs AT&T Julie Whitacre Director of Government Affairs Colorado Education Association Terry Whitney DELEWARE Director, Government Relations College Board Kim Anderson Director, Benchmarking College- and Lucinda Willits Career-Readiness Standards Deputy Executive Director SREB Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium Jenna Bucsak Shelley Woodson Program Officer Deputy Director, Scholarship Initiative Rodel Foundation of Delaware Colorado Department of Higher Education Christopher Ruszkowski Simon Workman Chief Officer, Teacher & Leader Associate Effectiveness Unit APA Consulting Delaware Department of Education Katie Zaback Megan Szabo Senior Policy Analyst Teacher of the Year SHEEO Delaware Terrance Adams FLORIDA Associate Legislative Analyst Connecticut General Assembly, Office of Christie Bassett Legislative Research 2015 Florida Teacher of the Year Highlands Grove Elementary CONNECTICUT Archie Cubarrubia James Comer Vice Provost for Institutional Effectiveness Maurice Falk Professor of Child Psychiatry Miami Dade College Yale Child Study Center Ester de Jong John Moran Professor Principal Analyst University of Florida Connecticut General Assembly Thomas Furlong Desi Nesmith Policy Consultant Principal St. Petersburg College Bloomfield Public Schools Emma Humphries Ray Rossomando Civic Engagement Coordinator Research and Policy Development Bob Graham Center for Public Service | CEA University of Florida Kelli Wells Gregroy Marshall Executive Director Alignment Director GE Foundation Florida Department of Education Hayley Zinn Rowthorn Jon Rogers Director of Literacy, Assessment and Director,