Kevin Kumashiro, Ph.D.
Former Dean & Founder
Center for Anti-Oppressive Education

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Tia T. Mills, Ed.D.
Executive Committee Member
NEA

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Andre Perry, Ph.D.
Senior Fellow
Brookings Institution

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Anne Tapp Jaksa, Ph.D.
Chair
AACTE Board of Directors

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Moderator: Kevin Bushweller
Deputy Managing Editor
Education Week

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What to Expect: 

This high-impact panel convenes leading thinkers and influential voices who challenge the status quo and push the field of educator preparation to imagine what comes next. Together, they will confront the structural barriers that limit progress and explore bold possibilities for building a stronger, more equitable future for the profession.

Together, they’ll tackle big questions:

• What in our current system must be dismantled?
• What bold new designs will shape the future?
• What commitments do we owe to children, communities, and the profession?

This is not a conversation about incremental change. It is a call to reinvention — an opportunity to reimagine educator preparation as innovative, equitable, and fully prepared to meet the challenges and opportunities ahead.