This forum will shine a spotlight on the collaborative innovations — in classrooms, communities, and state and district leadership — driving bold new approaches to rural education and student success.

Moderator: Paul Reville, Francis Keppel Professor of Practice of Educational Policy and Administration and founding director of the Education Redesign Lab, HGSE; former Secretary of Education, Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Panelists:
• Sanford Johnson, deputy director of advocacy, Mississippi First
• Thomas Kane, Walter H. Gale Professor of Education and Economics, HGSE; faculty director, Center for Education Policy Research (CEPR) and principal investigator, National Center for Rural Education Research Networks (NCERN), Harvard
• Geoff Marietta, Ed.M.’13, Ed.D,’15, entrepreneur-in-residence, University of the Cumberlands; former executive director, Pine Mountain Settlement School, Kentucky
• Mara Tieken, Ed.M,’06, Ed.D.’11, associate professor of education, Bates College; author, Why Rural Schools Matter