The Future of Smart Ulcca Joshi Hansen | Grantmakers for Education

We don’t often equate “leadership” with the words: rest, reflect, heal, and dream. Dr. Gislaine Ngounou does. Meet a leader who does and shares how it changes how she thinks about education.

“Look for the helpers” - this reminder is one of the many gifts offered to us by the children’s television personality Mister Rogers. Fred Rogers believed that a vision of peace is not just the absence of war or conflict; it requires building new ways of being grounded in love and compassion. He invited children and their adults to consider that they were part of building this kinder, more compassionate world. And he used his neighborhood - the onset version as well as his hometown of Pittsburgh - to illustrate what it meant to make these ideas real.

Join us for a conversation with Gregg Behr, Executive Director of the Grable Foundation in his hometown of Pittsburg, PA. Gregg is also co-author of the wonderful book “When you Wonder, You’re Learning: Mr. Rogers’ Enduring Lessons for Raising Creative, Curious, Caring Kids.” The book explores how the principles that informed Rogers’ TV show can be extended to create contexts in which young people and families can experience their communities as learning ecosystems.

Imagine an education system built around the concept of human flourishing. How would that push us to broaden our definitions of success and allow us to build on the assets and strengths of young people? Join us for conversation with Kenji Treanor, Vice President of Strategy, Partnerships and Learning at the Stuart Foundation about the role philanthropy can play as an enabler of new educational policies and approaches that move us in this direction.

Recorded during this year's Grantmakers for Education Annual Conference, Elizabeth (Liz) Thompson of The CAFE Group and The 1954 Project moderates a panel of Black leaders, Jamyle Cannon, Sharif El-Mekki and Saamra Mekuria-Grillo, who share the dreams they hold for the future and the essential role philanthropy must play in making their vision a reality.

A plenary discussion moderated by Ulcca Joshi Hansen during the Grantmakers for Education Annual Conference with Pamela Cantor of Turnaround for Children, Bob Hughes of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and James Shelton, former deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Education, will draw on their vast experience in educational equity to share their visions for an education system that can truly serve tomorrow's learners.

Join us to learn about how the Honors Living and Learning Community at Rutgers Newark is interrogating the structures and systems in K-12 and higher education that fail to recognize the brilliance and talent of so many students.