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Gateway Center For Giving Events
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The Gateway Center for Giving presents programs and seminars for its members designed to help grantmakers do their jobs more effectively. Programs open to nonprofits, non-members, associate members, and the general public will be specifically noted.
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Lutheran Foundation of St. Louis (map)
Education Reform: Raising Achievement in Missouri
Join us over breakfast for a conversation about how education reform in Missouri is necessary to raise both student and teacher achievement.
Speakers (Bios Below):
· Joe Knodell- State Coordinator, Missouri Education Reform Roundtable Foundation
· Mike Podgursky- Professor of Economics, University of Missouri Columbia
Please note new location
Where: Lutheran Foundation of St. Louis, 8860 Ladue Road
Come together with your peers at this program to learn about:
- Areas for potential reforms in Missouri including: 1) School choice for students, 2) School and district value-added measurement systems, 3) Market-based pay reforms, and 4) Teacher tenure.
- The barriers to reforming education in Missouri.
- Successful practices that are used in other states to enhance educational quality.
- What is going on in Jefferson City related to education reforms and what funders need to know.
Open to: Grantmaking Members (Free), Grantmaking NonMembers ($50)
Special thanks to Commerce Bank for hosting this breakfast!
Bios:
Joe Knodell- State Coordinator, Missouri Education Reform Roundtable Foundation
Joe Knodell is the former superintendent of Carter and Twin Rivers school districts. Joe grew up in Butler County, Missouri near Lake Wappapello, received degrees from Arkansas State University and Southeast Missouri State, and began teaching in the Greenville R-2 school district in 1969.
He retired from the Twin Rivers superintendence in 1998, and since then has served as Consultant for the Missouri Department of Education, board member on the Missouri Board of Probation and Parole, and served for five years as City Planner for Poplar Bluff, Missouri. Joe also served 18 years as an elected board member of the Board of Trustees of Three Rivers Community College in Poplar Bluff. Joe lives in Poplar Bluff with his wife, Donna, and his son Robert and daughter Kristi live in Jefferson City and Wentzville, respectively.
Mike Podgursky- Professor of Economics, University of Missouri Columbia
Michael Podgursky is Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri – Columbia, where he served as department chair from 1995-2005. His research focuses on the economics of education. He has written many articles in the area, with a primary focus on educator labor markets and human resource policy in schools. His recent research has been focused on the labor market effects of teacher retirement benefit systems. He serves on the board of editors of Education Finance and Policy, Peabody Journal of Education, advisory boards for various statistical agencies and research institutes, and the board of the Missouri Show-Me Institute. He is a co-investigator at the National Center for Performance Incentives at Vanderbilt University, and the Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research at AIR, two national research centers funded by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education, and an Education Fellow at the George W. Bush Institute at Southern Methodist University. He has served as a consultant for school districts, K-12 non-profits, foundations, and governments on school finance and educator compensation.
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