BETTER POLICIES FOR BETTER LIVES The OECD seminar for Norwegian leaders in education improvement Ontario, Canada (7-10 June 2011) Organised in collaboration with the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education Regional and local level Sør Trøndelag County Jorid Midtlyng DRAFT PARTICIPANTS LIST 26 MAY Director of Education Municipality of Trondheim 173 486 inhabitants, third largest city of Norway. Chaired committee on better learning for children, young people and adults with special learning needs. (NOU: 2009:18) +47 91 11 26 42 jorid.midtlyng@trondheim.kommune.no Hilde Hov Head Teacher Blussuvoll lower secondary school, Municipality of Trondheim. 520 pupils, ca 60 employees. +47 92 08 28 72 hilde.hov@trondheim.kommune.no Lasse Arntsen Director Responsible for kindergarten, schools, municipal planning and technical services (water, renovation, roads). Municipality of Malvik. 2000 pupils, 7 schools. + 47 95 14 62 43 Lasse.Arntsen@malvik.kommune.no Ingrid Nord Krogstad Member of Group of guidance personnel and Head Teacher in the Municipality of Malvik +47 95940310 Ingrid.nord.krogstad@malvik.kommune.no
Roy Asle Andreassen +4790753031 RoyAsle.Andreassen@hivolda.no Assistant Professor Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Department of Education and Volda University College, Department for Public Administration and Planning. Pro Dean at Volda University College, Teacher Training Education - Participating in the development and implementing of the Norwegian National School Leader Program at NTNU, Department of Education Member of an academic resource team for the national supervision program for school development (veilederkorpset). Former teacher and head teacher in primary and in secondary school. Hedmark County Anne-Grete Melby +47 95 92 99 86 anne-grete.melby@hamar.kommune.no Sølvi Hallem Director of Education. Responsible for 9 primary schools ( 2100 pupils ) and 3 lower secondary schools ( 1000 pupils ). Municipality of Hamar ( 30.000 inhabitants ) situated in the southeastern part of Norway by the Lake Mjøsa http://www.hamar.kommune.no/ Head Teacher Ajer Lower Secondary School, Municipality of Hamar. 360 pupils, about 50 emloyees. + 47 90 36 17 58 solvi.aas.hallem@hamar.kommune.no Others Svein Erik Fjeld +47 93 23 05 60 Svein-Erik.Fjeld@post.hfk.no Member of The Advisory Team of The Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training. CV : Has many years of experience from the Norwegian public school as a teacher, principal and Director of County Education (Hordaland County Council). Has been in charge of a number of school development projects both in Norway and abroad. Has written a couple of books on school subjects.
BETTER POLICIES FOR BETTER LIVES Unni Hagen Director of Education Programme for Head Teachers, University College of Oslo +47 48293203 Unni.Hagen@lui.hio.no Elaine Munthe +47 40240252 elaine.munthe@uis.no Ingrid Hernes +47 97488980 ingrid.hernes@fmtr.no Professor, University of Stavanger, Department of Education. Chair of group commissioned to follow up the introduction of the new teacher education programs. The main task of the group is to ensure that the reform is implemented in accordance with the Norwegian Parliament's intentions and existing steering documents. Director, Department of Education, County Governor of Troms Has many years of experience as teacher and principal in secondary and primary schools and was leader of an educational Centre for teachers and principals in the city of Tromsø. She was assistant director of brewery and fish business for some years and since 2005 director of education in the county of Troms. Hernes was member of the committee presenting an official report about education for preschool children (NOU 2010:8). Stakeholders, National Level Marianne Aasen Member of Parliament. Chair, Standing Committee on Education, Research and Church Affairs in the Norwegian Parliament. Representing the Labour Party. +47 93082540 Marianne.aasen@stortinget.no
Mimi Bjerkestrand +47 91143609 Mimmi.bjerkestrand@utdanningsforbund.no Haldis Holst +47 91537917 Haldis.holst@utdanningsforbundet.no Jens Garbo Union of Education Norway, elected chair Mimi was elected President of Union of Education Norway in 2009. UEN is the dominating teachers' union in Norway with more than 150 000 members organizing education professionals and leaders from pre-school to higher education. Mimi is educated as a preschool teacher and has served as a union representative on the different levels of the education system. Union of Education Norway, elected vice chair Haldis was elected Vice-President of Union of Education Norway in 2009. Haldis is also the serving Vice-President of Education International from Europe. Haldis is educated as a general teacher with additional university subjects. Union of Education Norway, Secretariat. Political Adviser +4791751408 Jens.garbo@utdanningsforbundet.no Sigrun Vågeng Director General, The Norwegian Association of Local and Regional Authorities (KS) +47 901 25 590 sigrun.vageng@ks.no Jan Sivert Jøsendal +47 94877636 JanSivert.Josendal@ks.no Responsible for Education, The Norwegian Association of Local and Regional Authorities (KS). Work experience: - Teacher - School leader - University of Oslo, lecturer - PwC, consultant - The Norwegian Association of Local and Regional Authorities
BETTER POLICIES FOR BETTER LIVES Jon Walstad Director, National Centre for Mathematics Education. Experience: Teacher (lower an upper secondary school), Lecturer (teacher education), Rector (college of engineering), Director of Academic Affairs (university). +47 918 97 467 Jon.Walstad@matematikksenteret.no Ministry of Education and Research Kristin Halvorsen Minister of Education Lisbet Rugtvedt State Secretary (politician) +47 480 18 012 lr@kd.dep.no Sylvi Bratten Political Adviser (?)(politician) +47 92 853 961 sbr@kd.dep.no
Eli Telhaug Deputy Secretary General, Ministry of Education and Research +47 913 53 286 ete@kd.dep.no Johan Raaum Director General, Department of Education and Training, Ministry of Education and Research, +47 93 44 52 03 jr@kd.dep.no Kjersti Flåten Deputy Director General, Department of Education and Training, Ministry of Education and Research +47 41 14 45 72 kjf@kd.dep.no Alette Schreiner Deputy Director General, Department of Education and Training, Ministry of Education and Research +47 911 52 721 als@kd.dep.no Håkon Kavli Senior Advisor, Department of Education and Training, Ministry of Education and Research +47 90 56 08 10 hka@kd.dep.no
BETTER POLICIES FOR BETTER LIVES Anette Skalde Senior Advisor, Ministry of Education and Research +47 46910484 ans@kd.dep.no Morten Rosenkvist Project leader GNIST (Partnership between government and stakeholders aiming to improve the status of teachers) Ministry of Education and Research +47 92449294 mor@kd.dep.no Directorate of Education Petter Skarheim Director General, Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training +47 900 25 399 Petter.Skarheim@utdanningsdirektoratet.no Dag Thomas Gisholt +47 97 75 89 36 dtg@kd.dep.no Director General, Department of Early childhood Education and Care. From Sept. 1, Director General, Directorate of Education, replacing Petter Skarheim for one year Hege Nilssen Director, Division for Assessment and Analysis Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training +47 986 96 904 Hege.Nilssen@utdanningsdirektoratet.no
Anne-Ma Grønlie Deputy Director General, Department for Schools Development, Directorate for Education and Training +47 41331339 Anne-Ma.Gronlie@utdanningsdirektoratet.no Representatives from OISE Barbara Bodkin Leigh Anne Ingram Limin Jao Ben Levin is Director of Continuing Education at OISE. She was previously a teacher and principal and most recently, a Superintendent in a large school district with responsibility for implementation of all programs and assessments for students from kindergarten to graduation. PhD Student PhD Student Professor, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto (OISE) http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/tps/programs/educ ational_administration_/faculty_staff_/faculty/ _Ben_Levin.html http://webspace.oise.utoronto.ca/~levinben/ ben.levin@utoronto.ca Dianne Thomson Tracy Wang Experts and representatives from the OECD Richard Elmore PhD Student PhD Student Professor of Educational Leadership, Harvard Graduate School of Education. http://www.gse.harvard.edu/faculty_research/p rofiles/profile.shtml?vperson_id=315 richard_elmore@harvard.edu
BETTER POLICIES FOR BETTER LIVES Nancy Hoffman Member of OECD-Norway Steering group and Vice President and Senior Advisor of Jobs for the Future. http://www.jff.org/ nhoffman@jff.org Bernard Hugonnier Deputy Director, Directorate for Education, OECD Bernard.hugonnier@oecd.org Paul Reville Senior Lecturer on Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education. http://www.gse.harvard.edu/faculty_research/p rofiles/profile.shtml?vperson_id=253 Dennis Shirley Member of OECD-Norway Steering group. dennis.shirley@bc.edu
Robert B. Schwartz Professor of Practice of Educational Policy and Administration and Academic Dean. Harvard Graduate School of Education. http://www.gse.harvard.edu/faculty_research/p rofiles/profile.shtml?vperson_id=170 schwarro@gse.harvard.edu Beatriz Pont Senior Analyst, Directorate for Education, OECD Beatriz.pont@oecd.org Diana Toledo Policy Analyst, Directorate for Education, OECD Diana.toledofigueroa@oecd.org