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Presenter Biographies
Larry Cuban
Linda Darling-Hammond
Susanna Loeb
Debra Meyerson
Hayagreeva "Huggy" Rao
Tom Payzant
Larry Cuban
Professor Emeritus, Stanford University School of Education
“Leadership Lessons from Austinand Mapleton”
Larry
Cuban is Professor of Education at Stanford University,
teaching courses in the methods of teaching social
studies, the history of school reform, curriculum,
and instruction, and leadership. He has been faculty
sponsor of the Stanford/Schools Collaborative and Stanford's
Teacher Education Program, a district superintendent,
and a high school social studies teacher.
His major research interests focus on the history of
curriculum and instruction, educational leadership, school reform and
the uses of technology in classrooms. His books include: Oversold
and Underused: Reforming Schools through Technology, 1980-2000 (2001); How
Scholars Trumped Teachers: The Paradox of Constancy and Change in University
Curriculum, Research, and Teaching, 1890-1990 (1999); Tinkering
Towards Utopia (with David Tyack), (1995); The Managerial Imperative:
The Practice of Leadership in Schools (1988); Teachers and
Machines: The Use of Classroom Technology Since 1920 (1986); How
Teachers Taught, 1890-1980 (1984); Urban School Chiefs Under
Fire (1976); To Make a Difference: Teaching in the Inner City (1970).
Linda Darling-Hammond
Stanford University School of Education
Charles Ducommon Professor of Education
Founding Director & Faculty Sponsor, School Redesign Network
“Developing Human Resources for High-Performing Learning Organizations”
Linda
Darling-Hammond is the Charles E. Ducommun Professor
of Education at Stanford University, where she has launched
the Stanford Educational Leadership Institute and the
School Redesign Network. Professor Darling-Hammond has
also served as faculty sponsor for the Stanford Teacher
Education Program. Prior to Stanford, Darling-Hammond
was William F. Russell Professor in the Foundations of
Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. There,
she was the founding Executive Director of the National
Commission for Teaching and America's Future, the blue-ribbon
panel whose 1996 report What Matters Most: Teaching for America's Future,
catalyzed major policy changes across the United States to improve the quality
of teacher education and teaching. Her research, teaching, and policy work focus
on issues of teaching quality, school reform, and educational equity. Among her
more than 200 publications is The Right to Learn, recipient of the American
Educational Research Association's Outstanding Book Award for 1998, and Teaching
as the Learning Profession (co-edited with Gary Sykes), recipient of the
National Staff Development Council's Outstanding Book Award for 2000.
Susanna Loeb
Associate Professor of Education
Associate Professor of Business (by courtesy)
Stanford University
Director, Institute for Research on Education Policy & Practic
Faculty Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research
“Examining the Principals’ Pipeline”
Susanna Loeb specializes in the economics of education and the relationship between schools and federal, state and local policies. She studies resource allocation, looking specifically at how teachers' preferences and teacher preparation policies affect the distribution of teaching quality across schools and how the structure of state finance systems affects the level and distribution of funds to districts. She also studies poverty policies including welfare reform and early-childhood education programs.
Debra Meyerson
Associate Professor, School of Education & Graduate School of Business
Stanford University
“Leading for Learning”
Dr. Debra Meyerson is an Associate Professor at the Stanford University School of Education & Graduate School of Business. Her reasearch focuses on five areas: gender and race relations in organizations, the role of philanthropic organizations as intermediaries in fostering change within educational institutions, leadership and entrepreneurship in education, going to scale in the charter school field, and accessibility and the construction (and destruction) of work-life boundaries through communication technologies.
Tom Payzant
Professor of Practice
Harvard Graduate School of Education
“Leadership Development throughout
the System”
Thomas Payzant is a professor of practice at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Prior to that, he served as superintendent of the Boston Public Schools from October of 1995 until his retirement in June of 2006. Before coming to Boston, he was appointed by President Clinton to serve as assistant secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education with the United States Department of Education. Over the past decade he has led a number of significant systemic reform efforts that have helped narrow the achievement gap and increase student performance on both state and national assessment exams. In addition to his tenure in Boston, Payzant has served as Superintendent of Schools in San Diego, Oklahoma City, Eugene, Oregon, and Springfield, Pennsylvania. Payzant's work has been recognized by educators at the regional and national level. In 1998, he was named Massachusetts Superintendent of the Year. In 2004, he received the Richard R. Green Award for Excellence in Urban Education from the Council on Great City Schools. And Governing Magazine named Payzant one of eight "Public Officials of the Year” in 2005. Payzant also received the McGraw Prize for his leadership of the San Diego school system from 1982 through 1993. Throughout his career, Payzant has not only kept abreast of the professional and research literature, he has contributed to it regularly—a remarkable achievement for the leader of a major urban school system. His essays, book chapters, book prefaces, and book reviews have been directed to both professional educators and policymakers. His curriculum vitae lists 51 publications between 1967 and 2005.
Hayagreeva "Huggy" Rao
Atholl McBean Professor of Organizational Behavior and Human Resources,
Graduate School of Business, Stanford University
“Innovation in Complex Systems”
Hayagreeva
“Huggy” Rao is the Atholl McBean Professor of Organizational
Behavior and Human Resources in the Graduate School
of Business, Stanford University. He was the Richard
L Thomas Distinguished Professor of Leadership and
Organizational Change at the Kellogg School of Management.
In his research, he analyzes the role of social movements, social networks, and social identities as motors of organizational change in organizational fields. He has published widely in the fields of management and sociology.
His teaching specialties include leading organizational change, building customer focused cultures, and organization design. He teaches courses on these topics to MBA and executive audiences. He has consulted with, and conducted executive workshops for, organizations such as Aon Corporation, British Petroleum, CEMEX, General Electric, Hearst Corporation, IBM, Mass Mutual, James Hardie Company, Seyfarth and Shaw. Additionally, he also worked with nonprofit organizations such as the American Cancer Society and governmental organizations such as the FBI and CIA, and the intelligence community.
Among the awards he has received are the Sidney Levy Teaching Award from the Kellogg School of Management and the W. Richard Scott Distinguished Award for Scholarship from the American Sociological Association.
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