Kenneth Bernard, Jr., 13th Congressional District, Georgia Board of Regents, speaks at the 3rd annual UGA State of Education in Georgia Conference on Sept 30, 2010. Seated on the panel are (L-R) Kathy Ashe, State Rep., District 5 6 (D-Atlanta), Wanda Barrs, Chair, Georgia State Board of Education; Gary Price, Managing Partner, Pricewaterhouse Coopers; and Lynne Weisenbach, Vice Chancellor of the University of Georgia Board of Regents (moderator).
Huckaby, Levine to speak at UGA State of Education Conference
The fourth annual two-day event also features more than a dozen UGA faculty members and other experts presenting and discussing trends and issues related to P-16 education in nine breakout sessions.
Michael Childs | September 2nd, 2011 | Published in Dean's Office, Features
A participant in the 2010 State of Education in Georgia Conference asks the panel a question.
Hank Huckaby, the new chancellor of the University System of Georgia and Arthur Levine, former president of Teachers College, Columbia University, are among the speakers at the University of Georgia College of Education’s fourth annual State of Education Conference Sept. 15-16.
National educational reform advocate Andrew Rotherham and Georgia State School Superintendent John Barge will also speak at the conference.
The two-day event also features more than a dozen UGA faculty members and other experts presenting and discussing trends and issues related to P-16 education in nine breakout sessions.
Levine
Levine, a leading national voice in efforts to improve teacher preparation programs, has served as president of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation since 2006. He was president and professor of education at Teachers College, Columbia University from 1994-2006. Before that, he was as a faculty member and chair of the Institute for Educational Management at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (1989-1994), president of Bradford College (1982-89), and senior fellow at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and Carnegie Council on Policy Studies in Higher Education (1975-82).
Levine will speak at 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, Sept. 15 in Mahler Auditorium.
Barge
Barge (EdD ’04), who earned his doctorate in educational leadership from UGA, was elected State School Superintendent in November 2010. Before that, he served as the Director of Secondary Curriculum & Instruction with the Bartow County School System from 2005-10. He also served as the State Director of Career, Technical and Agriculture Education for the Georgia Department of Education from 2003-04. He served as the opening principal of Chestatee High School in Hall County from June 2001-04.
Earlier in his career, Barge served as a high school English teacher, middle school Spanish teacher, assistant principal and principal. He was recognized as a STAR teacher in 1996 and as Georgia’s Assistant Principal of the Year in 2000. He received Berry College Alumni Association’s Distinguished Achievement Award in 2005.
Barge will speak at 10 a.m. on Thursday, Sept. 15.
Huckaby
Huckaby has a long record of public service to the state of Georgia in many areas of government. He was sworn in this past January to represent Georgia House District 113 as a Republican before being named the USG’s 12th chancellor.
He served at UGA in several capacities including special assistant to the president on a part-time basis from 2006-09, senior vice president of Finance and Administration from 2000-06 and director of the Carl Vinson Institute of Government from 1997-2000. He was director of the Fiscal Research Program at Georgia State University from 1995-97.
Huckaby also has extensive experience in state finance, serving in the Governor’s Office of Planning and Budget, first as a senior policy coordinator from 1973-75, and then as its director, from 1991-95, where he was responsible for overseeing the state budget on behalf of the governor. He also served as the interim chief financial officer for then Gov. Sonny Perdue during Perdue’s transition period.
Huckaby will speak at 2 p.m. on Thursday, Sept 15 in Mahler Auditorium.
Rotherham
Rotherham is co-founder and partner of Bellwether Education, a non-profit organization working to improve educational outcomes for all students and writer of the blog Eduwonk. He writes regularly for a variety of national publications including U.S. News & World Report. He previously served at The White House as Special Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy during the Clinton administration and is a former member of the Virginia Board of Education.
Rotherham will be the keynote speaker at 8:30 a.m. on Friday, Sept. 16 in Mahler Auditorium.
The UGA College of Education began the conference three years ago as a way to bring together teachers, teacher educators, elected officials, civic and business leaders, and concerned citizens to learn more about the top education issues facing the state. The conference is open to the public. Registration cost is $115 for the full conference (all sessions and Thursday luncheon). The agenda and registration information can be found at: http://bit.ly/soe2011.
Michael Childs is the Director of Public Information for the UGA College of Education.