PEAR - Program in Education, Afterschool & Resiliency

5th Annual PEAR Conference
The Whole Child, The Whole Day
Agenda

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Time	Event
8:00-8:30am	Continental Breakfast and Registration
8:30-9:00am	Opening Remarks/Introduction to Conference GIL NOAM, PEAR Conference Chair ANN REALE, MA Commissioner of Early Education and Care
9:00-10:15am	Featured Presentation: SUSAN EATON, Award-winning Journalist and Author The Children in Room E4: American Education on Trial Introduced by NICK DONAHUE, CEO, Nellie Mae Education Foundation
10:15-10:30am	The Charge for the Day
10:30-10:45am	Break

MORNING WORKSHOPS (Concurrent)

10:45am-12:15pm	Leadership on the Line: Closing the Gap Between Aspiration and Reality	School & After-School: Links to Learning	L.I.V.E. Brothers: Honoring the Voices of Youth in Schools	Hip-Hop and Youth: From Violence to Hope	From Violence to Connection: Helping Urban Youth Heal
10:45am-12:15pm	MARTY LINSKY Author and Lecturer, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University	ELLEN GANNETT Director, NIOST DISHON MILLS Afterschool Programs Coordinator, Boston Public Schools	MICHAEL McDONALD Drop-out specialist, Dearborn School, Roxbury & YOUTH in a demonstration of an advisory group	DERRICK ASHONG Actor, Musician, and Educator	ROBERT MACY Director of Community Services, Trauma Center, Boston STACEY LUCCHINO (MODERATOR) Co-Chair PEAR Board and Boston Red Sox

12:15-12:30pm

Break

LUNCH CONVERSATIONS WITH LEADERS

Lunch 12:30-1:45pm	Afterschool in Action: Sports and Movement	The Power of the Arts to Transform Youth	Mental Health and Resilence	Links to National Scene
	MARION KANE CHAIR, Executive Director, Barr Foundation TIM BENSON, MD Research Fellow, Alcohol & Drug Abuse Treatment Program, McLean Hospital NED EAMES President & Founder, Tenacity MEG VAILLANCOURT SVP, Corporate Relations, Boston Red Sox and Executive Director, Red Sox Foundation GREG ZAFF Executive Director & Founder, Squashbusters	DORIS SOMMER CHAIR, Ira Jewell Williams, Jr., Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University DERRICK ASHONG Actor, Musician and Educator LANA JACKSON Arts & Culture Coordinator, Boston After School & Beyond JANNA SCHWARTZ ARTWorks for Kids Program Manager, Swanee Hunt Family Foundation	JOE GOLD, MD CHAIR, Chief Medical Officer and Director of Child and Adolescent Program, McLean Hospital STEVEN GROSS Trauma and Youth Development Specialist, Director, Project Joy CELESTE REID LEE Director of Community Health Programs, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation LAURA PERILLE Executive Director, EdVestors	PETER HOWE CHAIR, Chief Operating Officer, National AfterSchool Association DARA ROSE Program Officer, Wallace Foundation ERIC SCHWARZ President and CEO, Citizen Schools RICK WEISSBOURD Faculty, Harvard Graduate School of Education and Kennedy School of Government and Founder or Co-Founder of ReadBoston and WriteBoston

1:45-2:10pm	THOMAS M. MENINO, Mayor, City of Boston and PEAR Conference Honorary Chair Introduced by Scott L. Rauch, M.D., President, McLean Hospital and Chair, Partners Psychiatry and Mental Health, Professor, Harvard Medical School
2:10-2:15pm	Break

AFTERNOON WORKSHOPS (Concurrent)

2:15-3:45pm

Priming the Imagination

Re-engaging High School Youth

System Change: No Piece of Cake

Building the Public Will

LINDA NATHAN
Co-Director, Boston Arts Academy

ROBERT MACY
Director of Community Services, Trauma Center, Boston

ROBERT ORCHARD
(MODERATOR)
Executive Director, American Repertory Theater, Cambridge

SAM PIHA
Senior Consultant, TEMESCAL Associates, San Francisco

STEPHEN M. PRATT

(MODERATOR) President, Boston After School & Beyond

EVELYN FRANKFORD
Director, EOHHS Schools Initiative

ANNE MCKENZIE
Collaborative
Leader, Lower Pioneer Valley Educational Collaborative

HELENANN CIVIAN
Expanded
Learning Time Program Director, Mass 2020

JOAN CONNOLLY
Superintendent,
Malden Public Schools

PATRICK DUHON
Director, Providence Afterschool Alliance

JAMES CARRINGTON Transportation
Office,
Providence School Department

JANE
FEINBERG
(MODERATOR)
Deputy Director of Field Building, FrameWorks Institute, Washington DC

JENNIFER HAHN
VP, Douglas Gould & Company

GWYNN HUGHES
(MODERATOR)
Executive Director,
Massachusetts Afterschool Partnership,

3:45-5:00pm

Networking Reception with Music from Students

All speakers and topics are subject to change, if necessary.

CONFERENCES

5th Annual PEAR Conference

Schedule

Panel Resources

Resource Rooms

Speakers

Organizers

Advisory Board

Advisory Board

Mayor Thomas Menino
Honorary Chair, Boston, MA

Jonathan Abbot
WGBH

Senator Robert Antonini
Massachusetts State Senator

Alan Bersin
California Secretary of Education

Louis Casagrande
Boston Children's Museum

Commissioner Elizabeth Childs
Department of Mental Health, Boston MA

Michael Contompasis
Boston Public Schools

William Dandridge
Lesley University

Nicholas Donohue
Nellie Mae Education Foundation

Matt Fishman
Partners HealthCare

Gary French
Boston Police Department

Chris Gabrieli
Massachusetts 2020 Foundation

Cinthia Haan
Haan Foundation for Children

Reverend Ray Hammond
Bethel AME Church, Boston, MA

Milton Little, Jr.
United Way of Massachusetts Bay

Stacey Lucchino
PEAR, Boston Red Sox Foundation

Senator Thomas M. McGee
Massachusetts State Senator

Jill Medvedow
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA

Ronay Menschel
Phipps House

Ioannis Miaoulis
Museum of Science, Boston, MA

Earl Phalen
The Bell Foundation

Commissioner Anne Reale
Department of Early Education and Care, Massachusetts

Eric Schwarz
Citizen Schools

Ellen Semenoff
Department of Human Services, Cambridge, mA

John Shattuck
JFK Library Foundation

Commissioner Harry Spence
Department of Social Services, Massachusetts

Representative Marie P. St. Fleur
State Representative

Marylou Sudders
Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children,

Meg Vaillancourt
Red Sox Foundation