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San Francisco, Ca, Us

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Mursion is the virtual reality environment where professionals practice and master the complex interpersonal skills necessary to be effective in high-stakes professions. Used by a wide range of innovative organizations in healthcare, education, hospitality, finance, and other corporate sectors, Mursion delivers customized virtual reality simulations that recreate the most demanding interpersonal challenges that professionals confront on the job every day. Mursion’s virtual reality platform:- Uses a combination of artificial intelligence and live actors to deliver powerful and personalized simulations.- Provides a wide range of immersive and authentic workplace environments in which to simulate challenging interpersonal on-the-job exchanges.- Forces learners to take risks from which they can learn how to improve their day-to-day performance. While the media has focused on virtual reality as a tool for gaming and other forms of entertainment, virtual reality simulations are on the verge of revolutionizing professional training. Simulated virtual reality role plays offer:- An engaging, efficient, and safe way to learn by doing- Practical experiences to integrate new skills into daily routines- A window into the performance abilities of key staff in global organizations- Easy-to-capture analytics that can inform future training plansWhether a professional needs to practice a challenging interpersonal skill, or is ready to demonstrate his or her mastery of that skill in an authentic form of performance assessment, Mursion is the platform to simulate real- world human interactions that can make or break careers.

San Francisco, California, Us

Building upon a comprehensive performance assessment created by a team of national experts, we work shoulder-to-shoulder with states to design and implement innovative Tier 2 licensing systems. By training and certifying local educators to score authentic work from their peers and aligning the assessment to the essential competencies in the state standards for the teaching profession, we help states reach a shared vision for effective teaching and learning. TeachForward's teacher licensing performance assessment is:- Rigorous: Multiple measures of effectiveness are used to assess teacher capacity, including: video observations of classroom instruction, interactions with parents, curriculum and assessment design, and other artifacts of teacher and student work.- Instructive: Designed to be integrated into existing initial licensure, annual performance evaluation and mentorship/induction systems, our model provides a powerful capacity building experience for both candidates and assessors.- Authentic: Submitted and scored online, performance tasks rely on digital portfolios of a teacher’s real work.- Customizable: Our unique technology platform enables states to implement a customized set of performance tasks aligned to nationally researched and locally defined professional standards.TeachForward currently implements Ohio's Resident Educator Summative Assessment (RESA) for the second tier of Ohio's multi-tiered teacher licensing system. For more information on the RESA visit: www.ohioresa.com.

The Oracle Education Foundation is a nonprofit organization funded by Oracle and staffed by Oracle employees. Our mission is to help young people develop the technical acumen, creative confidence, empathy, and grit to become outstanding designers of solutions to people’s needs and the world’s problems.

Chicago, Il, Us

The Danielson Group advances the principles of the Framework for Teaching by partnering with educators and policy leaders at all levels to strengthen professional practices and promote education policies that elevate teacher development and leadership in service of student learning.

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Achievement Network (ANet) is a nonprofit dedicated to educational equity. We help schools boost student learning with great teaching that’s grounded in standards, informed by data, and built on the successful practices of educators around the country. We believe that every child in America deserves an excellent education and the opportunities it provides. We choose to work in traditionally underserved communities because our mission is to help address the persistent inequity of opportunity in our country. Founded in 2005, ANet now serves over 700 schools educating over 230,000 students in California, Colorado, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Illinois, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, and Tennessee. Our support has consistently helped our partner schools—both district and charter—achieve breakthrough results for their students. ANet has received multiple awards and recognitions, including a prestigious Investing In Innovation (i3) grant from the federal government in 2010, New Schools Venture Fund’s “Organization of the Year” in 2011, and The NonProfit Time’s “Best Nonprofits to Work For” in 2015 and 2016. ANet is a dynamic, values driven, team-oriented organization that is committed to the growth and development of all staff members. Individuals who join ANet have the opportunity to join an exceptional team of colleagues committed to helping schools drive excellent teaching and learning by investing in each other and learning together

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

Open Up Resources is a nonprofit increasing equity in education by making excellent, top-rated curricula freely available to districts as open educational resources.We partner with expert curriculum authors to develop the very best curricula and deliver essential implementation support to districts, from professional development to printing. Districts spend more than $5 billion annually on curricula, yet they struggle from a dearth of high-quality, standards-aligned content.

New York, New York, Us

PresenceLearning's mission is to make all kinds of online therapy practical, affordable and convenient for schools, school districts, and families with special needs children while providing an extraordinary therapy experience for each child.

Stanford, Ca, Us

Advising Understanding Language Project in the Graduate School of Education on new technologies to support teaching and learning.

Oakland, Ca, Us

NewSchools Venture Fund is a is a national nonprofit venture philanthropy working to reimagine public education. Since our founding, in 1998, we have invested nearly $200 million in 200 education ventures. Our investments were instrumental in the creation of nearly 470 new schools with the potential to serve more than 200,000 students, and the development of ed tech products that serve more than 60 million students and their teachers.

Member of the Board of Directors of the OnePurpose School in San Francisco. OnePurpose School will prepare students in high-poverty communities in southeast San Francisco to go to, and graduate from, college. We are creating a great, free, public charter school that provides an exceptional, innovative education, in a city surrounded by innovation. OnePurpose School serves students in the Bayview Community in grades K-3.

Malvern, Pennsylvania, Us

Founded and led Teachscape though the first 11 years of its growth. Raised over $50 million in venture and philanthropic funding for Teachscape and secured ground-breaking partnerships with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Stanford University, SRI International, the New Schools Venture Fund, Intel, McGraw-Hill and the American Federation of Teachers. Served as an advisor to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Measures of Effective Teaching Project.

Austin, Texas, Us

Provided strategic guidance to management team.

Oakland, Ca, Us

Served on Executive, Finance and Branding committees of the board. Provided overall strategic guidance to management team.

New York, Us

As Senior Producer at CBS, he was in charge of establishing leading-edge business opportunities for the network, targeting multi-media production and the education market. He also directed the production of The 20th Century With Mike Wallace, a nightly, one-hour, non-fiction television series for The History Channel produced by CBS

New York, New York, Us

Reported, wrote & produced multi-hour news documentaries, hosted by Peter Jennings. Credits included: While America Watched: The Bosnia Tragedy, (March 30, 1994); House on Fire: America’s Haitian Crisis (July 27, 1994); The Peacekeepers: How the UN Failed in Bosnia (July, 1995); The Apocalypse and Al Gore (January 4, 1996); Rage and Betrayal: The Lives of Tim McVeigh and Terry Nichols, (April 10, 1997); Unfinished Business: The CIA and Saddam Hussein, (June 26, 1997). Awarded the Gold Baton, the highest honor of the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards, for work associated with reporting the war in Bosnia. Awarded the Overseas Press Club Award and an Emmy Award for reporting on the United Nations peacekeeping efforts in Bosnia.