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Shaping Education Policies to Better Serve California's Students
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Next, we'll hear from Paymon Zarghami, a board member for the San Jose Unified School District (SJUSD). Since 2013, the SJUSD has increased the overall graduation rate from 81% to 87%, the Latino graduation rate from 73% to 82%, and the African American college eligibility rate from 30% to 44%. Paymon will share the policies that contributed to this progress, including the adoption of a landmark teacher evaluation system.
From 5:30-6:10pm, we'll have a casual networking happy hour for students and our guest speakers. Our speakers will then begin at 6:15.
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Where
Haas Cheit C325
2220 Piedmont Avenue, S430, Berkeley, CA 94720, United States
Speakers
Paymon Zarghami
Board Member
San Jose Unified School District
Paymon Zarghami was elected to the San Jose Unified School District Board, which serves over 30,000 students in San Jose, in 2014. Paymon received his bachelors degree in business administration from Haas. After Berkeley, Paymon joined Teach For America and served as a high school teacher for seven years. After teaching, Paymon worked for Teach For America in San Jos├®, managing school partnerships, teacher recruitment, and teacher development for hundreds of teachers.
Paymon also worked on the business development team at Coursera, the world's largest education technology company with over 28 million learners and most recently joined the business development team at Lingo Live, an e-learning company that provides 1-on-1 coaching for professionals at tech companies seeking to build their business communication skills.
Carrie Hahnel
Deputy Director of Research and Policy
The Education Trust-West
Carrie is deputy director of research and policy at The Education Trust┬¡ÔÇôWest, an advocacy organization committed to closing opportunity and achievement gaps. Since joining the organization in 2010, she has researched current conditions and advanced policy solutions in areas such as school funding, accountability, teacher effectiveness, and public transparency in California. She previously worked for the national charter school network, the KIPP Foundation, as director of research and evaluation. She has also worked for the national afterschool provider Citizen Schools, and for an arts advocacy organization, Americans for the Arts. Her career in education began as an AmeriCorps VISTA, supporting afterschool, tutoring, and arts education programs in Riverside, CA. Carrie holds a B.A. from Carleton College and an Ed.M. from Harvard Graduate School of Education.