Fall Dinner 2012

Location: The Princeton Club Tuesday October 23, 2012 Guest of Honor: Shael Polakow-Suransky Shael Polakow-Suransky is the Chief Academic Officer and Senior Deputy Chancellor of the New York City Department of Education, the largest school system in the nation. Shael oversees all of the DOE’s instructional work, including implementation of the Common Core standards, design and administration of summative and formative assessments, school accountability initiatives, leadership development, and direct operational and instructional support to schools.

Since joining the central office in 2004, Shael has served in several roles, including Deputy Chancellor for Performance and Accountability. Throughout his tenure, Shael has focused on building instructional capacity, using data to evaluate school quality and improve student performance, developing school leaders, and opening new schools.

Shael has worked in New York City public schools since 1994, when he started his career as a teacher of math and social studies in a Harlem middle school. In 2001, he became the founding principal of Bronx International High School.

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