with co-producers Ashoka, The Brookings Institution, Christensen Institute, Teach For All, and World Bank
Join changemakers from around the globe to learn how education innovations arise, succeed, and become vehicles for change.
Attend "How Innovations Flourish" virtually from June 8-10. Registration is free.
11:00AM-12:00PM
Young Changemakers
Student voice is crucial in innovation and changemaking. In this session, we offer a global perspective on innovation through four impressive Ashoka Young Changemakers from India, Singapore, the Middle East, and the United States. They will share their experiences using changemaking skills and make a direct connection to education systems that enabled their growth.FEATURING Garvita Gulhati (Ashoka Young Changemaker, India), Midria Pereira (Ashoka Young Changemaker, Brazil), Aaryani Sahay, (Ashoka Young Changemaker, India), Faye Simanjuntak (Ashoka Young Changemaker, Indonesia)
12:00PM-1:00PM
How International EdTech is Breaking Barriers and Advancing Equity
In the past year, a host of tragic events converged that underscored challenges related to race, equity, and social justice. As these unprecedented events unfolded, several international Edtech accelerators, joining forces with entrepreneurs and policymakers, got busy doing what they do best: ideating, collaborating, and innovating on ways to transform learning for why with an eye towards equity. Hear from international accelerators, industry leaders, and entrepreneurs about how they are building ecosystems and designing solutions that offer equitable access, experiences, and outcomes for all learners.FEATURING John Gamba (Catalyst @ Penn GSE), Tamas Haiman (Supercharger Ventures), Edna Martinson (Boddle Learning), Addi Mavengere (Learning Factory), Arun Subramanian (AWS), Manish Upadhyay (LIQVID)
1:00PM-2:00PM
The Purpose of Education (and How to Assess It)
In the face of deep polarization, growing inequities, and other challenges facing countries around the world, one of the most important things we can do is to involve our communities in co-creating a vision for the future and reflecting on its implications for the purpose of education. FEATURING Alberto Carvalho* (Miami-Dade County Public Schools), Michael Golden (Catalyst @ Penn GSE), Wendy Kopp* (Teach for All), Andreas Schleicher* (OECD)
2:00PM-3:00PM
Beyond the COVID Pandemic: Leading Europe and Central Asia Forward
Emerging evidence of actual COVID-19 learning loss and its likely implications for the future of the generation currently in school show that it is essential to mitigate the long-term effects of the pandemic as much as possible. This panel will address the efforts and actions needed to mitigate learning losses and build the school of the future across Europe and Central Asia.FEATURING Nuno Crato (Iniciativa Educação), Zhomart Karambayev (Kazakhstan Ministry of Education and Science), Harry Patrinos (World Bank), Sherzod Shermatov (Minister for Education, Uzbekistan)
3:00PM-4:00PM
Interaction and Collaboration in Learning
Theoretical work by McGraw Prize winner Michelene Chi provides an account for what has been known for a long time—more interactive and collaborative learning experiences are not only more engaging, they are also better for learning. In this conversation, key leaders in the learning sciences will discuss the latest scientific findings around interaction and collaboration during learning, and how these findings can be applied in real-world education, whether virtual or in person.FEATURING Michelene Chi* (Arizona State University), Nia Dowell (University of California, Irvine), Robert Feldman (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Nikol Rummel (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
4:00PM-5:00PM
Open Networking
Connect after the presentations to continue the conversation.
10:00AM-11:00AM
Explore the Expo
11:00AM-12:00PM
Seizing the COVID-19 Disruption to Transform Use of EdTech to Accelerate Learning and Reduce Inequality of Educational Opportunity
This session will bring together researchers, EdTech entrepreneurs, and education practitioners to discuss how the school closures related to the pandemic may create an unprecedented opportunity to transform how EdTech is used for learning, focusing on K-12 education and serving the most marginalized students. A key question for the panel is how can we work together to address the digital divide to ensure access to quality education through technology for the most disadvantaged populations across the world?FEATURING Victoria Collis (EdTech Hub), Gus Schmedlen, Nicol Turner Lee (Brookings Institution), Emiliana Vegas (Brookings Institution), Daniel Wagner (University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education)
12:00PM-1:00PM
How Disruptive Innovation is Transforming Education
Hear from three disrupters on how they are improving the world through disruptive innovation in education. Learn their secrets to success in a conversation moderated by Julia Freeland Fisher, Director of Education at the Christensen Institute, a nonprofit co-founded by Dr. Clayton Christensen, who first coined the term disruptive innovation in an effort to describe innovations that radically expand access and affordability to fundamentally change industries.FEATURING Julia Freeland Fisher (Christensen Institute), Alexandra Bernadotte (Beyond 12), Larry Rosenstock* (High Tech High), Julie Young* (Arizona State University)
1:00PM-2:00PM
Building Collective Learning in Education Is Our Best Hope for a Peaceful, Just, and Sustainable World
Inherited models and systems of teaching and learning are inhibiting the potential of children around the world to grow as creative, problem-solving leaders who can address the existential challenges of humanity. We can learn our way, together, to a new paradigm of education. Leveraging network learning to reimagine education is our best hope for a peaceful, just, and sustainable world.FEATURING Steven Farr (Teach For All), Shaheen Mistri (Teach For India)
2:00PM-3:00PM
DBEI in Educator Preparation and Professional Development
We are living in a historical turning point. The world is changing at a rapidly increasing rate and sophisticated skills are required to keep up with the changes and meet the demands for inclusion and equity in education. This session helps education innovators visualize a path for reaching a more equitable and inclusive society through educator preparation and professional development. We explore successful innovations in policy, practice, research, and entrepreneurship in the United States and around the world to achieve diversity, belonging, inclusion, and equity in the U.S. education system.FEATURING Ed Brockenbrough (University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education), Amalia Dache (University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education), Pam Grossman (University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education), Ellen Moir* (New Teacher Center)
3:00PM-4:00PM
Key Principles for Scaling Education Innovations
This session will introduce a few key scaling principles from the work of Millions Learning and other scaling-related research efforts, and engage with session participants to consider the application of key scaling principles to their education work and research. FEATURING Patrick Hannahan (Brookings Institution), Brad Olsen (Brookings Institution)
4:00PM-5:00PM
Sparking Ideas, Scaling Impact
Over the past 12 years, thousands of education start-ups from 50 countries have competed for millions of dollars in cash and prizes in the Milken-Penn GSE Education Business Plan Competition. Two former winners, Michelle Brown from Commonlit and Emily Foote from Instructure Practice, will discuss their journey as women-owned founders who have converted transformative ideas into scalable solutions that now serve tens of millions of learners world-wide. Hear about what inspired them to start their social-impact ventures, how they navigated early stages of venture development, and how they scaled their ventures (and in one case exited to a major player in the learning management systems space). FEATURING Michelle Brown (CommonLit), Kelly Cassaro (Generation), Emily Foote (Osage Venture Partners), John Gamba (Catalyst @ Penn GSE), Gema Jara (CommonLit)
10:00AM-11:00AM
Explore the Expo
11:00AM-12:00PM
Disrupting Opportunity Gaps: Innovative Designs for Fostering Relationships and Expanding Networks
After a year marred by social distance and disconnection, strategically investing in students’ access to and ability to mobilize relationships will be critical to both meeting students’ immediate needs and addressing long-standing opportunity gaps. In this session, researchers from the Clayton Christensen Institute will present their latest research on 5 steps to ensuring your students have access to the networks they need to thrive. Along the way, participants will have the opportunity to hear about emerging designs, tools, and measures that can shore up students networks and will prototype new solutions to identifying and scaling students’ stock of positive and diverse relationships.FEATURING Mahnaz Charania (Christensen Institute), Julia Freeland Fisher (Christensen Institute)
12:00PM-1:00PM
Innovative Pedagogies for Learning
With our growing knowledge of how and why people learn, we are able to design new approaches that put students in the center in vibrant blended-learning environments to support and promote equity. Meet education leaders who are taking this work to scale.FEATURING Jane Chadsey (Educurious), Richard Culatta (International Society for Technology in Education), Linda Darling-Hammond* (Learning Policy Institute), Michael Golden (Catalyst @ Penn GSE), Chris Lehmann* (Science Leadership Academy)
1:00PM-2:00PM
Harnessing Innovation to Leapfrog in Education
This session will explore the concept of leapfrogging, the idea of harnessing innovation to rapidly accelerate education progress, as researched by the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution. Participants will learn about the leapfrog pathway, a framework to help education decision-makers improve access to quality, 21st-century education so that all children have the breadth of skills to thrive in a changing world. Following an overview of the framework, participants will break into small groups to workshop the framework and put it into their own context. FEATURING Rebecca Winthrop (Brookings Institution), Mubuso Zamchiya (Luminos Fund), Lauren Ziegler (Brookings Institution)
2:00PM-3:00PM
Artificial Intelligence and Adaptive Learning
A combination of artificial intelligence and learning design has yielded a new generation of adaptive learning systems that can recognize learner knowledge and engagement and use this information to create better opportunities for learning. In this conversation, key leaders in the learning sciences will discuss the state of the art in the field, what is currently available at scale for learners, and what the future may hold for the next generation of learners and learning.FEATURING Ryan Baker (University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education), Art Graesser* (University of Memphis), Rose Luckin (UCL Knowledge Lab LONDON), Ma. Mercedes (Didith) T. Rodrigo (Ateneo de Manila)
3:00PM-4:00PM
Penn Deans Leading In Crisis
The COVID-19 pandemic and political and social unrest of the past year highlighted the importance of crisis leadership. The Chinese word for crisis is comprised of two characters that signify danger and opportunity, and Winston Churchill famously quipped, “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” Hear from University of Pennsylvania Deans James (Wharton) and Grossman (Graduate School of Education) about leading through crises and creating opportunities from them.FEATURING Pam Grossman (University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education), Erika James (University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School)