Global Education Leaders Speak at School of the Future World Summit

School administrators and policy-makers from more than 30 countries are gathering in Seattle, Wash. for the fourth annual School of the Future World Summit. The theme "What's Possible" will enable more than 250 participants to facilitate a global discussion on what schools in the future can look like by examining the areas of instruction, organization design, technology, the challenges of implementing new policy and emerging trends everyone faces as they prepare students for the 21st-century global workforce.

Summit participants will explore the evolving role of technology as a disruptor and accelerator in education and address factors that enable sustained change and transformative innovation in classrooms. Attendees will learn from education, business and policy leaders who will discuss what's possible with systems, processes and integrated technology, specifically in this time of a global economic crunch.

Speakers at the event include U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, Michael Horn, co-author of Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns, Tony Wagner, author of The Global Achievement Gap, as well as educational leaders from different countries.

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