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Dr. Gisèle Huff is the executive director of the Jaquelin Hume Foundation in San Francisco. After a decade in the business world, she earned a Ph.D. in political science, with a concentration in political philosophy, at Columbia University. She has taught at Golden Gate University, San Francisco University High School and Dominican College. While at University High School, she served as the director of development for twelve years. She currently serves as chairman of the Board of Directors of Innosight Institute and as treasurer on the Board of Directors of the State Policy Network. She is a member of the Advisory Board for Harvard University's Program on Education Policy, of the advisory committee for the National Charter School Research Project at the Center on Reinventing Public Education and served as a member of the Executive Committee of the Digital Learning Council. She is the 2003 recipient of the Thomas A. Roe Award, which is presented annually to a person who has contributed significantly to the field of state-level public policy.
Dr. Kemi Jona is a Research Associate Professor of Learning Sciences and Computer Science at Northwestern University where he leads research and development projects in curriculum design, learning technology, online science and virtual labs, and web-based patient education and outreach. He is Director of Northwestern’s Office of STEM Education Partnerships (OSEP, osep.northwestern.edu), an organization he help to found with the support of the Office of Research and School of Education. OSEP partners with faculty across the university to support the education and outreach efforts associated with grant-funded research. In the first 18 months, OSEP has participated in over $150 million of grant activity and has produced a proposal funding success rate above that of the university average. Dr. Jona also serves the university as a learning strategist for the School of Continuing Studies, advising them on the design of their online professional masters and non-credit programs.
Dwight D. Jones serves as the superintendent of the Clark County School District. He previously served as the Commissioner of Education for Colorado. During his tenure he helped rewrite the state's content standards and is revising the state assessment; his administration has created a replicable longitudinal student growth model and streamlined the state's accountability system. He also initiated the Schools of Innovation status, allowing schools to seek waivers from certain district requirements for greater autonomy. Mr. Jones began his career as an elementary school teacher in Junction City, Kansas, before rising through the ranks as assistant principal, principal, and superintendent. He previously served as a superintendent and assistant superintendent for the Fountain-Fort Carson School District in Colorado, as operational vice president of Edison Schools in Maryland, Kansas, and Missouri; and as assistant superintendent of Wichita Public School in Kansas. Under his leadership the Fountain-Fort Carson School District was recognized as the number one district in the state for narrowing the achievement gap for low socioeconomic status and minority students. As the operational vice president for Edison Schools, he opened three reconstituted, 100-percent minority schools in Baltimore City, Maryland.
Linda Pittenger serves on the executive leadership team of the Council of Chief State School Officers as Director of the Innovation Lab Network. She was appointed to that position in July 2011. Prior to that time, she supported the Network as a consultant to the Council. The Innovation Lab Network is a group of states designing and testing elements of a transformed education system. Linda served as interim Chief Operating Officer for the Council from May – September 2010 and as Interim Strategic Initiative Director for Next Generation Learning from November 2008 – June 2009. Linda retired from the Kentucky Department of Education (KDE), as Director of Secondary and Virtual Learning, in May 2008. During her career at KDE, she started the Kentucky Virtual Schools, coordinated Kentucky’s Refocusing Secondary Education initiative, helped establish Kentucky’s National Math and Science Initiative and worked closely with the Statewide P16 Council. Linda has a strong interest in personalizing learning through performance-based pathways and using data and evidence of student work to support good decision-making by and about students. She led implementation of web-based individual learning plans for all secondary students in Kentucky. She is a founding and current Board member of the North American Council for Online Learning (iNACOL and an Advisor to the National Repository of Online Content. Upon retirement, Ms. Pittenger also worked as a consultant with the Kentucky Community and Technical College System where she advised on P16 college and work readiness initiatives and the development of online transitional content for under-prepared students.
Mickey Revenaugh is a co-founder and Vice President at Connections Academy, a leading national provider of virtual public school curriculum, technology, and school management services. Previously, she helped launch the E-rate program to wire every school and library to the Internet, and served as education technology magazine editor at Scholastic.
Tom Vander Ark is CEO of Open Education Solutions, a blended learning service providers. He is a partner in Learn Capital, an education venture fund, and a partner Getting Smart, an education advocacy firm. He is author of Getting Smart: How Digital Learning is Changing the World. Tom was the first Executive Director of Education at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and one of the first non-traditional public school superintendents.
Julie E. Young pioneered the launch of the Florida Virtual School (FLVS), in 1997 with a goal of developing and providing access to high quality, online courses to students throughout the State of Florida. Today her vision has become an award-winning leading provider of Internet-based courseware for middle and high school students in Florida and around the globe.
Ms. Young is an educator, an educational administrator, e-Learning advocate, industry expert in technology-supported instruction and an impassioned leader. As the President and CEO of Florida Virtual School, she directs the work of the 350 plus education faculty, courseware developers, web design specialists and technology support personnel. Government affairs and policy direction play an important part of her role.
Young is the winner of the prestigious 1999 USDLA Most Outstanding Achievement by an Individual Award for K-12, and was inducted into the USDLA "Hall of Fame" in 2003. She was honored as one of the first National Net Day Heroes. She has received the 2002 eSchool News Tech-Savvy Superintendent Award, and the Medallion of the Alliance from the Global Alliance for Transnational Education.