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gener al sessio n spe akers THeSe eNgAgINg SPeAkerS WIll PreSeNT AT THe geNerAl SeSSIoNS. dAN HeATH Thursday, February 26, 9:30–11:00 AM Made to Stick Dan Heath is the coauthor, with his brother Chip, of the book Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die, a Business Week and New York Times bestseller. Amazon.com readers voted Made to Stick into the top 00 books of 2007 and Amazon.com editors named it the #2 business book of the year. Heath has taught and consulted on the topic of “making ideas stick” with organizations such as Microsoft, Macy’s, Nestle, and the American Heart Association. Heath coauthors a monthly column for Fast Company magazine and serves as a consultant to the policy programs at the Aspen Institute. Prior to joining the Aspen Institute, Heath conducted research and wrote case studies for Harvard Business School. More recently, he worked and taught in the executive education division of Duke University. He is also the cofounder of Thinkwell, a startup textbook publishing company in Austin, Texas, which celebrated its 0th anniversary this fall. Heath received a BA from the University of Texas and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He now lives in Raleigh, NC. A proud geeky moment for Heath was his victory in the 2005 New Yorker Cartoon Caption context, beating out 3,000 other entrants. MICHelle rHee Thursday, February 26, 3:00–4:30 PM education reform ducation Alumna of Maumee Valley School (oH) In ( 2007, Michelle Rhee was appointed by District of Columbia Mayor Adrian Fenty to lead DC Public Schools, a district numbering 50,000 students and 44 schools. Chancellor Joel Klein, whose work in New York City’s public schools is a model for effective change, said her appointment was “the choice DC needs, given that, year in and year out, they have not gotten results.” Results drive Rhee. Whether she is developing effective measurements to track student achievement and teacher quality; talking with principals and teachers in one-on-one meetings; developing new measures to hold herself and staff accountable for their roles in student achievement; traveling throughout the community to engage parents and other stakeholders in our schools; establishing partnerships with neighborhood organizations; meeting with business leaders as she transforms a broken organizational structure into one that works; or ensuring that needed repairs are completed, Rhee’s vision rests on results. She had these results in mind when she founded The New Teacher Project (TNTP) in 997, now nationally recognized as a leading program in understanding and developing innovative solutions to new teacher hiring challenges. 4

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