Unexpected Greatness: Mark Roosevelt at TEDxDayton

Currently the president of Antioch College, Mark Roosevelt has spent a vast majority of his career as a public sector "change agent," advocating for changes in education that expand opportunity, rigor and new design models. Most recently, he served as superintendent of Pittsburgh Public Schools (PPS), where he pursued an aggressive improvement agenda called "Excellence for All." Under his leadership, PPS won a $40 million grant to maximize teacher effectiveness, opened innovative new schools, adopted a more rigorous curriculum, and inaugurated a nationally recognized program to recruit, train and support school principals. Mark's talk will be about Abraham Lincoln. He will share his passion for Lincoln, which affects his way of thinking and living.

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