Thank you for agreeing to serve as a Facilitator at the Stanford 2010 Business of Education Symposium!
The evening promises to be filled with lively discussions around the opportunities for cooperation and collaboration between the business and education worlds. We encourage you to take advantage of the roundtable discussions and networking reception to meet other guests and explore their interests and experience in both business and education.
The Symposium is scheduled for Tuesday, May 11, from 5:00 – 9:00 p.m. in the Vidalakis Dining Hall at
Schwab Residential Center. Symposium attendees will include current Stanford students from the
Graduate School of Business and the School of Education as well as Stanford alumni, faculty, and staff, and members of the general public.
Your Facilitator Welcome Materials include a detailed agenda, logistical information, our Keynote speaker biography, and a complete list of our roundtable Facilitators and topics.
Thank you again for your participation in the Symposium; we are looking forward to a wonderful event!
Your Symposium Co-Chairs,
Elizabeth Ivester
MBA/MA 2010 Candidate
Christopher Ruszkowski
MA 2010 Candidate

5:00 – 5:30 p.m.
5:30 – 5:50 p.m.
5:50 – 6:35 p.m.
6:40 – 7:25 p.m.
7:30 – 8:10 p.m.
8:15 – 8:55 p.m.
8:55 – 9:00 p.m.
Registration
Opening Remarks by Scott Morgan, Founder and CEO of Education Pioneers
1 st Roundtable Discussion
2 nd Roundtable Discussion (Facilitators remain at tables, attendees rotate)
Networking Reception and Buffet Dinner
Keynote Address
Closing Remarks
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Event Information:
Please plan to arrive at the Symposium by 5:00 p.m. After you check-in at Vidalakis Courtyard, you will be directed to the Littlefield Reading Room where you will meet the other Facilitators before the event begins. Programming in Vidalakis Dining Hall will begin promptly at 5:30 p.m.
Location & Parking:
Vidalakis Dining Hall is located in the Schwab Residential Center at 680 Serra Street, Stanford, CA, 94305.
Parking Lots near Graduate
School of Business
Parking Lot near Maples
Pavilion
Parking Structure 6
(beneath Wilbur Field)
Parking:
Parking in all A, C and P campus lots is free after 4 p.m. Parking options are circled in red on the map above. Please note that the walk from Parking Structure 6 to Schwab takes approximately 10 minutes.
Dress Code: Business Casual
Leadership Team Contact Information:
Elizabeth Ivester
Ivester_elizabeth@gsb.stanford.edu
(215) 510-9655
Christopher Ruszkowski cnr@stanford.edu
(612) 702-6508
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Jon Schnur is Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of New Leaders for New
Schools, a national non-profit organization with one mission: driving high levels of learning and achievement for every student by attracting and preparing outstanding leaders and supporting the performance of the urban public schools they lead at scale. Since co-founding New Leaders, he has led the development of the organization’s strategy, management team and board, core values, performance metrics, partnerships, and fundraising. From September 2008 to
June 2009, Jon took leave from New Leaders for New Schools, serving as an advisor to Barack Obama's Presidential campaign, a member of the Presidential
Transition Team, and a Senior Advisor to U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.
To achieve its mission and goals, New Leaders for New Schools focuses on two primary activities. First,
New Leaders for New Schools recruits, selects, trains, develops, and supports outstanding new principals in twelve communities in partnership with large urban school districts as well as charter schools. Second,
New Leaders for New Schools uses its program as a "laboratory" to create evidence, tools, and policy recommendations to help partner states, school systems, and schools improve student achievement through a new principalship model – especially through systems and policies focused on principal effectiveness to drive better student achievement and teacher effectiveness.
New Leaders for New
Schools partners with major urban school systems and charter schools in 12 communities: Baltimore,
MD, California’s Bay Area, Chicago, Charlotte, NC, Jefferson Parish, LA, Memphis, TN, Newark, NJ, New
Orleans, New York City, Prince Georges County, MD, and Washington, DC.
Currently, over 640 New
Leaders serve more than 220,000 students - more students than are served by all but a handful of urban school systems across America.
New Leaders for New Schools has received important national awards and recognition. This past fall
NLNS was the first non-profit organization ever to win the Innovations in American Government Award from the Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the John F. Kennedy School of
Government at Harvard University. New Leaders for New Schools is one of a handful of non-profit organizations to be rated as one of best in the nation by Fast Company five years in a row. NLNS and Mr.
Schnur have been named "Innovator of the Year" by both by Time Magazine and the Progressive Policy
Institute, and won "Organization of the Year" and "Change Agent of the Year" awards in education by the NewSchools Venture Fund.
New Leaders for New Schools has enjoyed broad, bipartisan support locally and nationally. During the Bush Administration NLNS was one of only 6 programs – and the only national program – highlighted in a “Best Practice Guide to School Leadership” by the U.S. Department of Education being distributed to all 50 states nationally.
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Before founding New Leaders for New Schools, Jon served as Special Assistant to Secretary of Education
Richard Riley, President Clinton's White House Associate Director for Educational Policy, and Senior
Advisor on Education to Vice President Gore. He has developed national education policies from preschool to higher education with special focus on teacher and educator quality, reforming urban school systems, charter schools, after-school programs, and early learning and preschools.
Jon graduated from a public high school in Wisconsin before attending Princeton University, graduating with honors. He completed his graduate coursework at Harvard's Business School, Graduate School of
Education, and Kennedy School. Last September, Jon's wife Elisa delivered their third child - Philip
Nathan Schnur - who was joyfully welcomed into the world by his parents, his 5-year old brother
Matthew, his 2-year old sister Elizabeth, and other family and friends.
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Lisa Barrett, Partner, The New Teacher Project
Why it’s So Hard to Get Teacher Evaluation Systems Right
Eugine Chung, Engagement Manager, McKinsey & Company
Strategic Planning: Learnings from Supporting Superintendents as a Management Consultant
Becky Crowe Hill, Sloan Fellow, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Encouraging Collaboration in Education (To Be Confirmed)
Brendan Cullen, VP Strategic Growth & Development, Education Pioneers
Data-Driven Decision Making Outside the Classroom
Carolyn Davies, Consultant, Boston Consulting Group
Performance Management Systems: Targeting Responses and Interventions
Scott Ellis, Executive Director, New Teacher Center
Being a Translator: Speaking both Business and Education
Lindsay Fox, Consultant, FSG Social Impact Advisors
Developing a Corporate Philanthropy Strategy in Education
Jessica Graham, Director of Civic Engagement, Citizen Schools
Jessie Arora, Operations Manager, Citizen Schools
Closing the Achievement Gap: Leveraging Corporate Partnerships
Carrie Hahnel, Director of Policy and Research, The Education Trust – West
California Students: College- and Career-Ready for All (To Be Confirmed)
Janet Harman, President and Founder, KDK-Harman Foundation
Breaking the Cycle of Poverty through Philanthropy
Grace Hoagland, Director of Leadership Programs, Stanford University School of Education
Beyond the Rhetoric: Leadership, Equity and Success at Apollo High School
Dave Hoverman, Senior Principal, Parthenon
Evaluating Investment Opportunities in For-Profit Higher Education
Adam Royalty, K-12 Lab Designer, Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford (d.school)
Design Thinking in Education: a Process for Innovation
Ash Solar, Project Manager, Office of Strategic Projects, Oakland Unified School District
The 21 st Century Workforce: Implications for District Human Capital Strategy
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Lisa Spinali, Executive Director, San Francisco Education Fund
Fueling Educational Reform: Building Strategies that Get Results
Kevin Stone, Education Entrepreneur
Technology Innovation in Education
Peter Taylor, Chief Financial Officer, UC Berkeley
Financial Management in Higher Education
Ric Zappa, Principal, KIPP Summit Academy
The Challenges of Charters Schools: Assets and Liabilities
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