09 Jul Tony Wagner
Speaker: Tony Wagner
Change Leadership, Transforming Education for the 21st Century
Speech Topics Include:
- Reinventing’ America’s Schools
- Starting Points for Reinvention
- Educators Are From Mars; Business Leaders Live on Venus: How Are We Going To Get Down To Earth Together?
- Seeing the School Reform Elephant: What Policymakers Need to Know
- Seeking Higher Moral and Academic Standards: A Response to Character Education
- Strategies for Building Community Partnerships
Tony Wagner spent twelve years as a high school teacher and K-8 principal before joining Harvard, where he eventually became the first Innovation Education Fellow at the Technology and Entrepreneurship Center. That trajectory — from classroom to research to national policy conversations — gives him a perspective on education reform that neither pure academics nor career administrators can match.
From Classroom Teacher to Harvard Innovation Fellow
Before his Harvard appointment, Wagner founded and led the Change Leadership Group at the Harvard Graduate School of Education for more than a decade, consulting to schools, districts, and foundations across the country and internationally. His previous experience also includes university teaching and serving as founding executive director of Educators for Social Responsibility.
Books and Films That Shifted the National Conversation
His book Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World, published by Simon and Schuster, received widespread acclaim and has been translated into multiple languages. His earlier book The Global Achievement Gap became an international bestseller and was also translated into Chinese. He collaborated with filmmaker Robert Compton to produce The Finland Phenomenon, a 60-minute documentary on the world’s most successful school system.
Tony Wagner’s keynote presentations challenge educators and business leaders to confront the gap between what schools currently teach and what students actually need to succeed in a knowledge economy that rewards innovation, critical thinking, and collaboration.
Reinventing’ America’s Schools
Starting Points for Reinvention
Educators Are From Mars; Business Leaders Live on Venus: How Are We Going To Get Down To Earth Together?
Seeing the School Reform Elephant: What Policymakers Need to Know
Seeking Higher Moral and Academic Standards: A Response to Character Education
Strategies for Building Community Partnerships
What is The Aim of Educational Reform?
Are Schools ‘Failing’?
Successful Strategies for Community Involvement
Charter Schools: Policy Implications for Educational Reform
Why School Reform: Making the Case for Change
