Chris Unger
You Can Change Education
I currently teach in the Doctor of Education program at Northeastern University and co-lead Northeastern University’s NExT initiative, a global experiential learning educator network and former Principal Investigator at the world renowned Harvard University’s Project Zero, an educational think tank creating and investigating ground-breaking educational programs and research
My current focus is on inspiring and empowering educators and education leaders to disrupt the status quo of teaching, learning, and schooling through the pursuit of innovation and entrepreneurial activity in schools, school systems, and communities. I started my efforts at the first US federally-funded research organization at Harvard University investigating how new technologies could impact student learning in math, science, and computing education. I then led, co-directed, and directed a number of initiatives at Harvard’s Project Zero, an educational think tank and research organization, including contributing to the seminal work on teaching for understanding, co-directing and supporting several education initiatives in Colombia, and leading several school development efforts in the US. Subsequently I worked with the Seattle Public Schools in their high school redesign efforts, and then worked at Brown University in the redesign of high schools throughout New England, New York, New Jersey, and the support of several state departments of education along the East Coast in their statewide systems of school and district improvement. Since then, I have been at Northeastern University where I focus on supporting educators to be change agents in their communities, education entrepreneurship, the rethinking of teaching, learning, and schooling, and experiential learning in K12, higher education, organizations, and communities.
Today I am zeroing in on the widespread showcasing of innovative teaching, learning, and schooling practices and the development of innovation in schools, school systems, and communities. At the heart of these efforts is empowering educators to think and act entrepreneurially, to “think big” but “start small” in their efforts, to create the conditions and practices of inventiveness and creativity within schools but also accessing the inventiveness of others across schools and school systems. Through my work with several schools and school systems, I have the opportunity to develop a variety of strategic activities that can help propel a school into an ongoing pursuit of inventiveness and innovation, drawing from the passions, interests, and inventiveness of its staff, including drawing from a wide-array of examples of innovation and how innovation is led in schools.
I am currently working on two books that showcase leading edge innovations in schooling and how education ecosystems could progressively and effectively foster and support the growth of entrepreneurial activity across the US.
Recent publications:
The Need for Revolutionary Networks – in Getting Smart
The Superhero School of Philadelphia – in Getting Smart
J-term at Lyndon Institute – in Getting Smart
A podcast where I share much of what I do … and why I do it:
http://capsnetwork.buzzsprout.com/728390/3371404-episode-11-reimagining
You Can Change Education
I currently teach in the Doctor of Education program at Northeastern University and co-lead Northeastern University’s NExT initiative, a global experiential learning educator network and former Principal Investigator at the world renowned Harvard University’s Project Zero, an educational think tank creating and investigating ground-breaking educational programs and research
My current focus is on inspiring and empowering educators and education leaders to disrupt the status quo of teaching, learning, and schooling through the pursuit of innovation and entrepreneurial activity in schools, school systems, and communities. I started my efforts at the first US federally-funded research organization at Harvard University investigating how new technologies could impact student learning in math, science, and computing education. I then led, co-directed, and directed a number of initiatives at Harvard’s Project Zero, an educational think tank and research organization, including contributing to the seminal work on teaching for understanding, co-directing and supporting several education initiatives in Colombia, and leading several school development efforts in the US. Subsequently I worked with the Seattle Public Schools in their high school redesign efforts, and then worked at Brown University in the redesign of high schools throughout New England, New York, New Jersey, and the support of several state departments of education along the East Coast in their statewide systems of school and district improvement. Since then, I have been at Northeastern University where I focus on supporting educators to be change agents in their communities, education entrepreneurship, the rethinking of teaching, learning, and schooling, and experiential learning in K12, higher education, organizations, and communities.
Today I am zeroing in on the widespread showcasing of innovative teaching, learning, and schooling practices and the development of innovation in schools, school systems, and communities. At the heart of these efforts is empowering educators to think and act entrepreneurially, to “think big” but “start small” in their efforts, to create the conditions and practices of inventiveness and creativity within schools but also accessing the inventiveness of others across schools and school systems. Through my work with several schools and school systems, I have the opportunity to develop a variety of strategic activities that can help propel a school into an ongoing pursuit of inventiveness and innovation, drawing from the passions, interests, and inventiveness of its staff, including drawing from a wide-array of examples of innovation and how innovation is led in schools.
I am currently working on two books that showcase leading edge innovations in schooling and how education ecosystems could progressively and effectively foster and support the growth of entrepreneurial activity across the US.
Recent publications:
The Need for Revolutionary Networks – in Getting Smart
The Superhero School of Philadelphia – in Getting Smart
J-term at Lyndon Institute – in Getting Smart
A podcast where I share much of what I do … and why I do it:
http://capsnetwork.buzzsprout.com/728390/3371404-episode-11-reimagining