Profiles
Steve Barr
Steve Barr founded Green Dot Public Schools in 1999 with the vision of transforming secondary education in California by creating a number of high-performing charter high schools using available public dollars. Under Steve’s leadership, Green Dot became the leading change agent in the region ...
James Dierke
James Dierke is a 36 year veteran of the San Francisco public schools. In addition to being principal of Visitacion Valley Middle School in San Francisco. Dierke is President of the United Administrators of San Francisco (UASF), AFSA Local 3 and AFSA National Vice President.
David T.C. Ellis
David E. Ellis, the founder and director of the High School for Recording Arts (“Hip Hop High”), was born and raised in St. Paul Minnesota, and is a graduate of the St. Paul Open School. Mr. Ellis established himself in the music business in the mid-eighties as the first rap recording artist to release a record in Minnesota, the “Twin City Rap”.
Randall Fielding
Randall Fielding, AIA, is the Chairman and Founding Partner of Fielding Nair International, LLC (FNI), an award-winning school planning and design firm with offices in Minneapolis, Tampa, Madison and Melbourne, Australia. The firm has consultations in 23 states around the U.S. and 26 countries. Randy oversees FNI’s primary mission to improve learning by serving as a world leader ...
Stephen Heppell
Stephen Heppell heads his own policy, research and practice consultancy, Heppell.net, at the virtual heart of a network of innovative collaborators worldwide, working together on a diverse range of 21st century focused projects from school design through software development to national policy.
Jean Johnson and Notschool.net
Jean Johnson has worked in the education field for 25 years following a spell in industry. She began her teaching career in East London schools working with difficult and disaffected teenagers. In 1993 she began working with new technologies and was one of the first teachers to pilot the use of the internet in schools. She was part of the early developer group of schools for Oracle’s ...
Doug McCurry
Doug McCurry is the Superintendent and co-CEO of Achievement First. Mr. McCurry was one of the founders of Amistad Academy, serving as the school's instructional leader for three years. In his teaching roles at Amistad Academy, Mr. McCurry achieved outstanding results. His math students achieved 100 percent proficiency on the Connecticut Mastery Test, and ...
George McKenna
George McKenna was born and reared in New Orleans, Louisiana, where he distinguished himself as a scholar and multi-sport athlete and where the seeds of his civil and human rights activism were nurtured. Upon receiving a Bachelor’s Degree in mathematics from Xavier University, at the age of 20, he was awarded a teaching fellowship to Loyola University, Chicago, where he earned an M.A. in mathematics.
Alan November
Alan November is an international leader in education technology. He began his career as an oceanography teacher and dorm counselor at an island reform school for boys in Boston Harbor. He has been director of an alternative high school, computer coordinator, technology consultant, and university lecturer. He has helped schools, governments and ...
Larry Rosenstock
Larry Rosenstock taught carpentry for eleven years, after law school, in urban high schools in Boston andCambridge. He served as staff attorney for two years at the Harvard Center for Law and Education, and was a lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education for five years. Rosenstock was principal of the Rindge School of Technical Arts, and ...
Elliot Soloway and Cathie Norris
Elliot Soloway is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor at the University of Michigan and professor in the School of Information, the School of Education, and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
For 14 years, Cathie Norris was a high school mathematics and computer science teacher before moving to the University of North Texas ...
Yong Zhao
Yong Zhao is the University Distinguished Professor of Education at Michigan State University, where he also serves as the founding director of the Center for Teaching and Technology as well as the US-China Center for Research on Educational Excellence. He is a fellow of the International Academy for Education and currently serves on ...