Raymond J. McNulty
Dean of the School of Education, SNHU
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Raymond J. McNulty is the Dean for the School of Education at Southern New Hampshire University which Fast Company magazine named the 12th most innovative organization in the world in its World's 50 Most Innovative Companies, and is a Senior Fellow to the International Center for Leadership in Education, having previously served as President. Ray also served as the Chair of the National Dropout Prevention Network and was recently the Chief Learning Officer for Penn Foster a global leader in online education. Prior to joining the International Center, he was a senior fellow at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, where he worked with leading educators on improving our nation's high schools. Ray is a past president of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) and author of
It's Not Us Against Them – Creating the Schools We Need, published in 2009 by the International Center.
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 is a presenter 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.
The Next Chapter of Education
Whether just a hunch or a carefully planned, innovative idea on how to transform education for our students and communities, we can't let day-to-day situations cause us to lose sight of the future of learning. The challenge we face is simple to state, yet difficult to deliver.
We must focus on educating the children we have, in the world we have. Not the children we used to have, in the world we used to have. This session will lay out the challenges, trends and models needed to ensure that our systems and their learners are supported and ready for the world they will live, work and participate in.
Learning Objectives:
- Create an understanding of the essential educational practices emerging today.
- Share knowledge and strategies necessary to move systems away from past learning models.
- Gain an understanding of the trends shaping education today.
- Learn about the characteristics of successful education models emerging in learning systems and communities.