Yale ELC 2019: Never Standing Still - Leading Through Uncertainty: Full Schedule

OUR MISSION
The Yale School of Management Education Leadership Conference exists to create a forum for leaders in education reform. We seek to create a constructive dialogue about how leadership skills applied to the education sector can be used to solve the most pressing and complex challenges in public education.

ABOUT: YALE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT EDUCATION LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE
From its modest beginnings in 2007, The Yale School of Management Education Leadership Conference has grown to be a nationally recognized forum for education reform. The ELC is an annual two-day conference focused on convening the nation’s leaders in education reform. Through panels, networking, conversations, and workshops, our speakers, attendees, presenters, and keynotes create a community that helps build urgency in working toward student success and system-wide progress.

The ELC is sponsored and run by the Yale School of Management Education Club. Each year, 20+ Yale School of Management students work from early in the school year to conceptualize, plan, and realize the spring conference. The 2019 conference will mark our 13th anniversary.

10:15am EDT

The Future of Refugee Education

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Georgia has resettled 37,000 refugees in the past 25 years. The majority of those refugees were resettled in DeKalb County. This panel will explore what the education journey looks like for refugee students and offer perspectives from DeKalb County about how to best serve the unique needs of refugee students.

Moderators

Joe Luft

Executive Director, Internationals Network

Joe Luft is Executive Director of Internationals Network for Public Schools. As Executive Director, Joe leads a national team of passionate educators and advocates for educational equity for multilingual learners. Joe has spent his career in public education and the nonprofit sector... Read More →

Speakers

Babba Jaden

Student, Elms College

Originally from Ethiopia by way of South Sudan, Babba Jaden worked his way through hundreds of tests and soccer practices to become a part of the Fugees Academy Class of 2016, the first group of students to graduate from the Fugees Academy. He is currently a CIT major in his junior... Read More →

Wahid Khaleqad

Student, Elms College

Originally from Afghanistan, Wahid Khaleqdad started at Fugees Academy in the sixth grade. Wahid graduated from Fugees Academy class of 2017 and is now a sophomore at Elms College. Wahid served as a member of AmeriCorps and assisted Fugees Academy in their after-school tutoring program... Read More →

Julie Allen

Principal/CEO, International Community School

Julie Allen leads the International Community School, a K-5 public charter school in Decatur, GA, which aims to model for the world what rigorous and holistic education of refugee, immigrant, and local students should be. ICS accomplishes this mission by using the International Baccalaureate... Read More →

Luma Mufleh

CEO, Fugees Family, Inc.

Luma Mufleh is the CEO and Founding Director of Fugees Family, Inc., a nonprofit organization that uses the power of soccer, education, and community to empower refugee children to successfully integrate into the United States. Luma is a 2016 Top 10 CNN Hero whose story has been featured... Read More →

Friday April 5, 2019 10:15am - 11:30am EDT
Temple

Breakout Session

1:15pm EDT

Systems of Oppression in Education Reform

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Do education reform efforts perpetuate the systems of oppression they're designed to dismantle? Over the past few years, discussions around improving the field haven't scratched below the surface. Do we need more people of color leading? Yes. But what else?

In this session, participants will debate issues around representation, outcomes, money, and power in education and explore ways to do right by communities.

From the moderator: attendees should be prepared to be uncomfortable.

Moderators

Jamilah Prince-Stewart

Executive Director, FaithActs for Education

Jamilah is a native of New Haven, Connecticut and graduate of Yale University. After graduation, Jamilah worked at Hartford Youth Scholars Foundation as the Placement Manager, where she placed inner-city middle school students into independent secondary schools around the country... Read More →

Speakers

Tenicka Boyd

Senior Advisor to the President, Color of Change

Please note: in this session, Tenicka Boyd is representing her own views, not those of her employer, Color of Change.Tenicka Boyd is the Senior Advisor to the President of Color Of Change, where she serves on the leadership team as a strategic thought partner to the President. Prior... Read More →

Duanecia Evans

Senior Managing Director of Black Community Alliances, Teach for America

Born and raised in Harlem, New York, Duanecia Evans leads as Senior Managing Director on Teach For America's national Public Partnerships Team. Duanecia's portfolio of partnerships specifically focuses on strengthening opportunities within the Black community. Duanecia has ensured... Read More →

Subira Gordon

Executive Director, ConnCAN

Subira Gordon was born and raised in Jamaica, in a small rural community with a 2 percent literacy rate. Her mother was one of the few people who could read, and Subira quickly realized the value of schooling, as her mother was often asked to assist neighbors with undertakings that... Read More →

Barbara López

Director, Make the Road CT

Originally from California, Barbara is a first generation American. Barbara learned about the importance of her community from her Guatemalan parents, who came to the United States in search of a better life. Barbara received a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from the University of... Read More →

Friday April 5, 2019 1:15pm - 2:30pm EDT
Temple

Breakout Session

2:45pm EDT

Teacher Quality: What We Know and What We Need to Know

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Prof. Biasi will discuss her recent research reported in her current working papers: "The Labor Market for Teachers Under Different Pay Schemes," and "School Finance Equalization Increases Intergenerational Mobility: Evidence from a Simulated Instruments Approach."

For a sneak preview of the working papers that will be discussed during this session, please see: https://www.barbarabiasi.com/research.html

Speakers

Barbara Biasi

Yale School of Management

Barbara Biasi’s research is in the areas of labor economics and applied microeconomics, with a focus on education and creativity. Some of her recent research investigates the effects of changes in teachers’ pay on teachers’ labor markets and the effects of school finance equalization... Read More →

Friday April 5, 2019 2:45pm - 4:00pm EDT
Temple

Breakout Session