Thought Leaders
In addition to the national, provincial and state leaders, the Collaboratory has enlisted the support of some of the world’s leading education scholars and change leaders, including:
Allison Skerrett
Director of Teacher Education, University of Texas at Austin.
Amanda Datnow
Professor at the University of California, San Diego
Andy Hargreaves
ARC President & Director of Chenine at the University of Ottawa
Beatriz Pont
Directorate for Education and Skills, OECD
Carol Campbell
Head of School/Dean and Personal Chair of Education at Moray House School of Education and Sport, University of Edinburgh.
Dennis Shirley
Professor of Education at the Lynch School of Education at Boston College.
Graham HC Donaldson
Honorary professor at the University of Glasgow
Henry Braun
Boisi Professor of Education and Public Policy, Boston College
Jeannie Oakes
American Educational Research Association (AERA) President
Joel Westheimer
University Research Chair, Democracy and Education, University of Ottawa.
Jonathan Jansen
Senior Professor, University of the Free State, South Africa
Ken Robinson
International education expert, advisor and author
Mel Ainscow
Professor involved with multiple universities
Michael Fullan
Worldwide expert in Whole System Change in Education
Pak Tee Ng
Nanyang Technological University
Pasi Sahlberg
Finnish education policy expert and prize-winning author
Pedro Antonio Noguera
Dean, Rossier School of Education, University of Southern California
Robert Jenkins
UNICEF
UNICEF Chief, Education
Marc Brackett
Professor in the Child Study Center of Yale University
Steve Munby
Author and consultant
Vicky Colbert
Colombia´s Fundación Escuela Nueva Founder and Director and 2013 WISE Prize Laureate
Lily Eskelsen García
Vice president of Education International (EI) for North America and the Caribbean
Yngve Lindvig
ARC Co-Founder and LearnLab CEO
LINDA DARLING-HAMMOND
Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education Emeritus at Stanford University and President of the Learning Policy Institute
DYLAN WILIAM
Emeritus Professor of Educational Assessment at University College London
JENNIFER GORE
Director of the Teachers and Teaching Research Centre at the University of Newcastle in Australia
DAVID EDWARDS
General Secretary of Education International, the voice of teachers and other education employees around the world
LEE ELLIOTT MAJOR
Professor of Social Mobility, University of Exeter
MARY GORDON
Founder and President of Roots of Empathy