Speakers

Prof. Dr. Paul LeMahieu
Senior Vice President
Carnegie Foundation

Dr. Paul G. LeMahieu is the Senior Vice President at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and is Graduate Faculty in the College of Education at the University of Hawai‘i – Mānoa. LeMahieu served as Superintendent of Education for the State of Hawai‘i, the chief educational and executive officer of the only state system in the United States that is a unitary school district, serving 190,000 students with annual operating and capital budgets totaling over US$1.8 billion. Prior to that, LeMahieu was Director of Research and Evaluation for the National Writing Project at the University of California, Berkeley he also served as Undersecretary for Research and Policy for the State of Delaware. LeMahieu has published extensively on issues as diverse as testing policy and practice; educational accountability,; issues in data analysis and use; staff development; school effectiveness; nontraditional work roles for women; and minority achievement issues. His most recent publications have focused on the adaptation and application of improvement science into educational settings in the form of Networked Improvement Communities -- this work having been summarized in a book that he co-authored, Learning to improve: How America’s schools can get better at getting better (2015). Most recently, he is the lead author of the volume, Working to improve: Seven approaches to quality improvement in education (2017). His current work, Measuring to improve: Practical measurement for improvement in education is due out in 2023 from Harvard Education Press. He has been President of the National Association of Test Directors and Vice President of the American Educational Research Association. He served on the National Academy of Sciences' Board on International Comparative Studies in Education, and Mathematical Sciences Education Board. He is a Founding Director of the Center for the Study of Research on Expertise in Teaching and Learning, served on the National Board on Testing Policy, and the National Board on Professional Teaching Standards. He has received a number of major awards for his contributions to educational theory and practice from the American Educational Research Association, the Evaluation Research Society, the Buros Institute of Measurement, the National Association of Test Directors, and the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. LeMahieu holds degrees from Yale College (AB), Harvard University (EdM), and University of Pittsburgh (PhD), as well as Dip. Hon. from Pinkerton Academy.

Dr. Anthony Bryk
Former President
Carnegie Foundation

Dr. Anthony S. Bryk served as the ninth president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching from 2008 through 2020, where he led the efforts to transform educational research and development, more closely joining researchers and practitioners to improve teaching and learning. He is now president emeritus and a senior fellow. Formerly, he held the Spencer Chair in Organizational Studies in the School of Education and the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University from 2004 until assuming Carnegie's presidency in September 2008. He came to Stanford from the University of Chicago where he founded the Center for Urban School Improvement, (the roots for what is now the Urban Education Institute) that supports improvement efforts in the Chicago Public Schools. He also founded the Consortium on Chicago School Research (now called UChicago Consortium on School Research) that continues to produce a range of studies to advance and assess urban school reform. He is a member of the National Academy of Education and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is one of America's most noted educational researchers. His 1993 book, Catholic Schools and the Common Good, is a classic in the sociology of education. His deep interest in bringing scholarship to bear on improving schooling is reflected in his later volumes, Trust in Schools (2002) and Organizing Schools for Improvement: Lessons from Chicago (2010). In his most recent works, Learning to Improve (2015) and Improvement in Action (2020) Bryk argues that improvement science combined with the power of networks offers a powerful new approach to reach our ever increasing educational aspirations.