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Keynote
Speaker
Location: Cox
Convention Center, Arena
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Preparing Students for a Changing World by Integrating Academics and CTE
The skills, knowledge, and attitudes 21st century learners bring to our schools and the skills, knowledge, and attitudes they will need to be successful in the technological, globally driven world in which they will live and work have changed dramatically. Ray McNulty will describe what schools must do to meet these challenges. The most successful high schools have responded by making CTE and academic education a seamless system, thus preparing students very well for academic and workplace success.
Raymond J. McNulty is
Senior Vice President of the International Center for Leadership in
Education. Prior to joining the International Center, he was a senior
fellow at the Bill & Melinda
Gates Foundation, where he worked with leading educators from around
the country to reinvent our nation's high schools. Ray also is a past
president of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
(ASCD).
An educator since 1973, Ray has been a teacher, vice principal, principal,
and superintendent. From 2001-03, he served as Vermont's education
commissioner. During his tenure, Ray focused on aligning the Department
of Education's work on three key issues: early education, educator
quality, and secondary school reform
Ray has presented at the state, national, and international levels
on the need for school systems to accept the challenges that lie ahead.
He is committed to raising performance standards for both teachers
and students and to building solid connections between schools and
their communities. Ray believes strongly that education systems cannot
wait for the children and challenges to arrive at school; rather, schools
need to reach out and help forge solutions.