Our 2012 keynote speaker, Tony Wagner, quoted frequently in recent column by Thomas Friedman

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/31/opinion/sunday/friedman-need-a-job-invent-it.html?_r=0

Projects Our projects range from the newest ways to use digital technologies in history instruction to how students collaborating across national borders formulate broader interpretations of the world. People Our staff comprises full-time researchers, former history teachers now pursuing their PhDs, and post-doctoral researchers from the U.S. and abroad.

The Rowland Foundation and its Fellows are very much interested in the kind of dialog you mention. An initials step are the workshops that we are offering during the current school year (found on the website). The conference in Burlington served as a major catalyst for the Foundation and the work of our Fellows. Our primary interest is to affect change across schools, beyond the ones we have directly funded. As we "debrief" the conference, we will be asking ourselves the very same question that you posted.