McGraw-Hill Education

Special Feature

Discussion:

Critical Trends in

K-12 Education

LeiLani Cauthen,
Center for Digital Education

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Topic: A Discussion on Critical Trends in K-12 Education

Join us for this informative interview with Mr. Peter C. Davis, president of McGraw-Hill Education, as he discusses the digital transformation taking place in the education industry and how it will increasingly affect elementary and high schools nationwide.

Our host LeiLani Cauthen, publisher of ConvergeMag.com, and Mr. Davis also discuss the National Education Technology Plan and Common Core Standards, as Mr. Davis comments on McGraw-Hill Education’s point of view and the company’s strategy to incorporate the technology plan and the standards into assessment and curriculum resources.

Topics in this episode include

• Educational change in Action
• Educational Technology needs
• Response to Intervention (RtI) opportunities
• Impact of the Race to the Top on these trends
• And much more.

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Biographical Background:

Peter C. Davis
President
McGraw-Hill Education
The McGraw-Hill Companies

As President of McGraw-Hill Education, Peter C. Davis is responsible for leading one of the world’s top educational publishers, serving teachers, students and individuals in a range of professions across virtually every aspect of the growing global education market from pre-K through professional learning.

Peter has spearheaded a range of important growth initiatives for McGraw-Hill Education, including developing strategies to help the company’s Pre-K through 12 education group compete effectively in the elementary and high school market, helping improve marketing and sales for its testing and assessment services business, and devising strategies to enter the career educational services markets internationally. He also is leading McGraw-Hill Education’s efforts to develop effective digital learning platforms and tools that are customized to the needs of each student and designed to generate positive learning outcomes at virtually every level of education.

He is on the board of directors of the James B. Hunt, Jr. Institute Foundation for Educational Leadership and Policy, and he is a member of the President’s Policy Council of the Alliance for Excellent Education.

Peter joined The McGraw-Hill Companies in 2006 as Executive Vice President of Global Strategy, where he worked closely with the Corporation’s senior management team to build global business opportunities, strengthen its presence in existing markets, and develop partnerships and new business opportunities for the company’s Education, Financial Services and Information & Media businesses.

Earlier in his career, Peter was a managing director at Novantas LLC and was senior partner at Booz Allen Hamilton, where he led global client relationship development and delivery for the banking, brokerage and asset management segments.

Peter holds a bachelor’s degree from Rutgers College in New Brunswick, NJ, where he was a Henry Rutgers Scholar, and earned his master’s degree in business administration from the Johnson School of Management at Cornell University.

Leilani Cauthen
Publisher, Converge Magazine
VP Sales, Center for Digital Education
divisions of e.Republic, Inc.

LeiLani Cauthen is the Publisher of Converge magazine, a national media and events organization providing context and content for education change using technology for the policy levels in both K-12 and Higher Education. LeiLani manages the Center for Digital Education, helping hundreds of IT companies with sales strategy, research and the Center’s advisory services. In 1987, LeiLani was part of the original team to launch Government Technology magazine for e.Republic, Inc., the first national publication devoted to technology solutions in state and local government. From 2000-late 2003, LeiLani handled marketing and sales at Entrust Software for the eight western States, SLED segment, and worked with individual government agencies, Community Colleges and Universities. LeiLani rejoined e.Republic in the Center for Digital Government in 2003 and was later promoted to Publisher and Vice President of Sales in the Center for Digital Education. LeiLani has more than 18 years of experience in assisting companies to understand, sell and market to state/local government and education, and is a frequent speaker at various market association conferences and vendor sales conferences.

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Interview with Mr. Neil Rochelle, Supt. Iroquois Central School District, Western NY.

Handling H1N1: With Your Community, Media, and Social Media

Handling H1N1: With Your Community, The Media, and Social Media

Neil Rochelle, Superintendent of the Iroquois Central School district in Western New York, provides a riveting account the real needs facing district leaders across the USA and globe today regarding community issues such as H1N1. He discusses the topic, the unfolding of the experience in his district in fall 2009 and the strategies he employed, including social media communication. All of these details are included in this interview with District Leaders Podcast host Dr. Kathleen P. King. Bonus topics include social media decisions, relationships with the State Health Department, and what to do when the experts disagree!

Specific topics include the following issues:

• In the fall 2009, when your district had 500 of 3000 students home sick, why and how did you decide not to close the schools?
• How did you seek to control panic in the school community as H1N1 and other disease related issues were threatening to emerge?
• Where can district leaders turn for assistance and guidance?
• How did you use social media to communicate and build support and which ones did you use?
• What do you suggest superintendents do now and if facing the introduction of the flu into their school district populations?

Special features referenced in this interview:

• Read the community letter which Neil posted on the district website’s front page.
• Visit the H1N1 area of the District website Neil and his team created
• Neil’s Superintendent Community Newsletter

MORE RESOURCES

• Flu.gov
• Center for Disease Control (CDC) regarding H1N1

For more information on this subject or to connect with Neil

• Facebook
• Twitter
• Ning (below)

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Biographical Background

Currently, Neil Rochelle is Superintendent of Schools of Iroquois Central School District. Previously, he was not only superintendent of schools at Keshequa Central School, but prior to that elementary principal at Keshequa Central School.

Having been a teacher for 13 years, he has now been a superintendent for 10 years. His teaching roots are in special education. He also has a specialty in Traumatic Brain Injury and served as a consultant for the NYS Education Department. Before becoming a superintendent he was a Director of Special Education and an Elementary Principal.

Neil states his goals as a superintendent simply,

My goals are simple. Provide the best leadership I can for students to be successful 21st Century Learners. In the long-term, for students to be prepared for college or post-secondary plans and eventually successful in a competitive, global economy.

Neil was born and riased in New York City. He earned his degrees at State University of New York College at Brockport (CAS, Educational Administration) and State University of New York College at Genesco (MSE, Special Education)

Related Web Links:

• Iroquois School District web site
• Iroquois School District superintendent’s page
• Neil’s Superintendent Community Newsletter
• Virtually Iroquois- Neil’s District Ning
  • http://virtuallyiroquois.ning.com/
• Changing High Schools (Neil’s Blog)
  • http://changinghighschools.blogspot.com/

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