Senior Research Fellow, Learning Policy Institute, Stanford University; Former Expert in Residence at the Harvard Innovation Lab, Harvard University; Former Co-Director, Change Leadership Group, Harvard Graduate School of Education; Board Member, Mastery Transcript Consortium and Better World Ed; Education Advisor to the documentary, Most Likely to Succeed; Author, Mastery: The Future of Learning in Schools and the Workplace (Upcoming 2024), Learning by Heart: An Unconventional Education (2020); Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World (2012), and The Global Achievement Gap (2014); Co-Author, Most Likely to Succeed: Preparing Our Kids for the Innovation Era (2015)

Turbocharge Visionary Brain Power: Equip Students to Improve Their World

Most Likely to Succeed: Preparing Our Kids for the Innovation Era

Senior Research Fellow, Learning Policy Institute, Stanford University; Former Expert in Residence at the Harvard Innovation Lab, Harvard University; Former Co-Director, Change Leadership Group, Harvard Graduate School of Education; Board Member, Mastery Transcript Consortium and Better World Ed; Education Advisor to the documentary, Most Likely to Succeed; Author, Mastery: The Future of Learning in Schools and the Workplace (Upcoming 2024), Learning by Heart: An Unconventional Education (2020); Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World (2012), and The Global Achievement Gap (2014); Co-Author, Most Likely to Succeed: Preparing Our Kids for the Innovation Era (2015)

Joining Character and Scholarship: Beautiful Student Work That Contributes to a Better World

Global Citizenship: Empowering Students to Change the World

Teaching Tomorrow's Change Makers: The Power of Service, Citizenship and Social Change

Empowering Global Students and Citizens

Empowerment through Education: Equipping Today's Students with the Skills Necessary to Become the Leaders, Innovators and Problem-Solvers of Tomorrow

Beyond Wit and Grit: Can We Raise Good Citizens?

Creating the 21st Century Schools and Citizens We Need

What Kind of Citizens? Educating Our Children for the Common Good

Educating for Moral and Civic Purpose

Engaging Parents, Schools and Communities in Support of Positive Youth Development

Revitalizing Civic Learning for Empowering Youth

Children Are Citizens: Engaging Young Children in the Community to Create Powerful Learning

Participation in School and Community-based Organized Activities

Promoting Purpose and Engagement Through Civic Education and Student Voice

Contributing to the Civic Society: The Characteristics Associated with Civic, Community and Cultural Participation Among Adolescents

Using Writing as an Avenue to Empower and Develop Deeper, Higher Thinking

Fostering Complex, Critical and Creative Thinking for the Classroom

The World Becomes What We Teach: Educating a Generation of Solutionaries

Inspiring Engaged Thinking and Innovation in 21st Century Students

Mind, Brain and Education Research: Informed Pathways for Purposeful Teaching, Learning and Thinking

Half-Truths and Lies: The Brain Science of Critical Thinking

Mind, Brain and Education Research: Informed Pathways for Purposeful Teaching, Learning and Thinking

History Teacher; Executive Director, Center for Transformative Teaching and Learning; Co-Designer, NeuroTeach Global and Neuroteach Global Student; Dean of Studies, St. Andrew’s Episcopal School; Co-Author, "Every Educator Needs to Know How the Brain Works" (2020, ASCD Express) and Neuroteach: Brain Science and the Future of Education (2016); Co-Editor, Think Differently and Deeply; who has played and coached soccer, ice hockey, and golf at high school, club and collegiate levels and worked alongside USA National Women’s Soccer Team members at the Julie Foudy Sports Leadership Academy

Student Engagement for Deep Thinking in the 21st Century

Consultant; Former Principal, Instructional Specialist, and Teacher; Adjunct Faculty, Grand Canyon University; Author, 17 Things Resilient Teachers Do: (And 4 Things They Hardly Ever Do) (2020), Retraining New Teachers (2015), and Battling Boredom (2010); Co-Author, The Resilient School Leader (2023, Routledge Eye on Education), Battling Boredom, Part 2 (2018), and 75 Quick and Easy Solutions to Common Classroom Disruptions (2013)

Learning to Choose, Choosing to Learn: The Keys to Student Motivation

Creating Possibilities: Empowering Youth Through Voice, Choice and Entrepreneurship

Motivation to Learn: Promoting Student Voice and Self-Efficiacy

Motivation in Learning: Insights from Multi-Method Approaches

Engaging Students: Creating Classrooms of Choice, Collaboration and Deep Learning

Why Is Interest Powerful for Learning?

Motivation Intervention in Education

Associate Professor of Education, Psychology, and Public Policy, Curry School of Education; Founder and Director, Motivate Lab, University of Virginia; Adjunct Faculty, Department of Graduate Psychology, James Madison University; Fellow, John N. Gardner Institute; Fellow, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching; Co-Author, “Belonging in STEM: Growth Mindset as a Filter of Contextual Cues” (2022, International Journal of Community Well-Being), “A Brief Social Belonging Intervention Improves Academic Outcomes for Minoritized High School Students” (2020, Motivation Science), and “The Promotion and Development of Interest: The Importance 0f Perceived Values” (2017, The Science of Interest)

Using Citizen Science to Engage Students in STEM Education: From Brooks to Biodiversity

Test Your Brain: Engaging Students as Citizen Scientists

Engaging Young Engineers: Teaching Problem Solving and Decision Making Skills

Developing Student's Skills and Interest through Citizen-Science- Inspired Invesigations: From Biology to BirdSleuth

Engaging Citizen Science and Empowering STEM Students and Programs

Changing Moral Minds

Moral Tribes: Emotions, Reason and the Gap Between Us and Them

Humanitarian Neuroscience: Predicting Future Behavior, Education and Criminal Outcomes

Director, MIT’s Integrated Learning Initiative; Grover Hermann Professor of Health Sciences and Technology and Cognitive Neuroscience; Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences; Co-Director, Clinical Research Center; Associate Director, Athinoula A. Martinos Imaging Center, McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Co-Author, “Reward-Related Neural Circuitry in Depressed and Anxious Adolescents: A Human Connectome Project” (2021, Journal of the American Academy), “Mindfulness Supports Emotional Resilience in Children During the COVID-19 Pandemic” (2022, MedRxiv), “Sleep Quality, Duration, and Consistency Are Associated With Better Academic Performance in College Students” (2019, NPI Science of Learning), and “Greater Mindfulness Is Associated With Better Academic Achievement in Middle School” (2019, Mind, Brain, and Education)

Connecting Restorative Justice Practice and Brain Research to School Behavior and Bullying Prevention

Civility, Compassion and Courage: Embracing Your Influence to Be a Change Enterprise