UNI Education Summit

New date! New format!

The third Education Summit at the University of Northern Iowa has moved to the fall with an all-new format to help encourage education front-liners, policy makers and researchers to engage in meaningful conversations about the new edge of education.

The event will kick off on Monday, Nov. 14. Throughout the day, four nationally-prominent leaders in various aspects of education will give keynote addresses. Following each keynote will be round table discussions where attendees have the chance to go more in depth on the topics and exchange ideas with peers and other education stakeholders.

Keynote speakers include:

Robert Bullough will discuss the successful partnership program he developed in Utah involving state legislators, district superintendents, university professors, principals and teachers. Bullough is professor of teacher education and associate director of the Center for the Improvement of Teacher Education and Schooling, McKay School of Education, and a fellow in the Humanities Center, Brigham Young University. He is widely published and cited in the research literature.

Dale Baker will speak on her research concerning the under-representation of women in science. Baker is fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Educational Research Association. She is a former co-editor of the lead journal in science education, the Journal of Research in Science Teaching and also serves on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Learning Technology and the Journal of Engineering Education. She co-authored Letting Girls Speak Out About Science, which was selected for the JRST issue which featured the most influential research in the past 40 years of the journal.

Deborah Reed will discuss improving reading in the state of Iowa. Reed is director of the Iowa Reading Research Center and an Associate Professor in the College of Education at the University of Iowa. She has published more than 30 peer-reviewed journal articles, authored three books, and created numerous professional development programs on reading instruction.

Debra Reece will present on issues relating to diversity in education. Reese is Pueblo Indian from Nambe Pueblo in northern New Mexico. She is a book reviewer for Horn Book Inc. and Multicultural Review, and has taught children's literature at the University of Illinois College of Education. Reece conducts workshops designed to help participants gain awareness about issues such as stereotyping, insider/outsider perspective, and appropriation of stories.

Events will wrap up on Tuesday, Nov. 15, with a discussion among Iowa state legislators and education scholars from the Iowa Academy of Education concerning priorities for the future of Iowa

The summit will run 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday, Nov. 14, and 9-11:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 15.

For more information about the conference, please go to the website.