Workshop Faculty

June Ahn

June Ahn

University of California • Irvine
June Ahn is an Associate Professor at UC Irvine School of Education and a member of the Connected Learning Lab at UCI. He conducts research on the design, implementation, and evaluation of learning technologies. He is interested in designing and understanding sociotechnical systems - or how social, cultural, and institutional factors intersect with the affordances of new technologies - to create enhanced and equitable learning opportunities for all learners. His...
Philip Bell

Philip Bell

University of Washington
Philip Bell is a Professor of Education at the University of Washington Seattle and holds the Shauna C. Larson Chair in Learning Sciences. He pursues a cognitive and cultural program of research about how people learn about science and technology in ways that are personally consequential to them both in and out of school. His current work involves design-based research on novel learning experiences and resources that promote educational equity...
Daniel Gallagher

Daniel Gallagher

Shoreline Public Schools
Daniel Gallagher is Director of Career and Technical Education at Shoreline Public Schools. He has cultivated several productive research-practice partnerships, most recently serving as co-Principal Investigator for two NSF DRK-12 projects and as Principal Investigator of a Washington State Math-Science Partnership (MSP). In the MSP, multiple school districts, STEM professionals, a regional PD provider, and science education researchers are co-developing resources supporting implementation of the NGSS Science and Engineering Practices.
Alicia Grunow

Alicia Grunow

Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
Alicia Grunow is a senior partner and director of the improvement science and analytics groups at Carnegie. In that role, she oversees the core capacities that support all networked improvement communities: analytics, developmental evaluation, design and development, program technologies and improvement research. Before coming to Carnegie, Alicia was an instructor in Stanford鈥檚 Teacher Education Program (STEP), where she taught practices to support the academic achievement of English language learners. She...
Kylie Peppler

Kylie Peppler Kylie Peppler

University of California • Irvine
Kylie Peppler is an associate professor of learning sciences in Informatics & Education at the University of California, Irvine. Her research focuses on the intersection of arts, computational technologies and interest-driven learning. In addition to serving as the Director of the Creativity Labs, Peppler is the Chief Learning Officer at Collective Shift/LRNG, the former lead of the MacArthur Foundation鈥檚 Make-to-Learn initiative, and a member of the 2016 and 2017 National...
Nichole Pinkard

Nichole Pinkard

Northwestern University
Nichole Pinkard is an associate professor of learning sciences in the School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University. She is the founder of Digital Youth Network, co-founder of Inquirium LLC and Remix Learning, home of iRemix, a social learning platform that connects youth鈥檚 learning opportunities in school, home, and beyond. In collaboration with the Chicago Public Library, Dr. Pinkard helped found YOUmedia, a public learning space that immerses...
Jennifer Lin Russell

Jennifer Lin Russell

University of Pittsburgh
Jennifer Lin Russell is an associate professor of Learning Sciences and Policy in the School of Education and a research scientist at the Learning Research and Development Center (LRDC) at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research examines policy and other educational improvement initiatives through an organizational perspective. Her recent work examines two primary issues: (1) how schools create social and organizational structures that support reform; and (2) how inter-organizational collaborations...

Workshop Organizers

Tiffany Clark

Tiffany Clark

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Tiffany Clark is a research scientist at the 精品SM在线影片 School of Education. She is committed to broadening participation and building the field's capacity to carry out effective research-practice partnerships to improve learning opportunities for all youth. She engages in educational research, evaluation, and consulting activities and serves as an advisor to several non-profit organizations including the Woodland Park Zoo and United Way of King County. Tiffany received...
Barry Fishman

Barry Fishman

University of Michigan
Barry Fishman is Professor of Learning Technologies in the University of Michigan School of Information and School of Education. His research focuses on: video games as models for learning environments, teacher learning and the role of technology in supporting teacher learning, and the development of usable, scalable, and sustainable learning innovations through design-based implementation research. He is the creator of GradeCraft , a game-inspired learning management system, and principal investigator...
Bill Penuel

Bill Penuel

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Bill Penuel is Professor of Educational Psychology & Learning Sciences at the 精品SM在线影片. His research focuses on teacher learning and organizational processes that shape the implementation of educational policies, school curricula, and afterschool programs. He examines learning and development from sociocultural, social capital, and complex social systems perspectives. One strand of his research focuses on designs for teacher professional development in Earth science education. A second strand...