Gary Stager, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Gary Stager is a veteran teacher educator with more than 40 years experience. Full biographical information, awards, research interests, and CV at http://professorgarystager.comVideo Library: http://cmkfutures.com/gary-stager-video-library/In addition to being a popular keynote speaker at some of the world’s most prestigious education conferences, Gary Stager is a journalist, teacher educator, consultant, professor, software developer, publisher, and school administrator. An elementary teacher by training, he has taught students from preschool through doctoral studies. In 1990, Dr. Stager led professional development in the world’s first laptop schools and played a major role in the early days of online education. Gary is the founder of the Constructing Modern Knowledge summer institute for educators.Dr. Stager is co-author of Invent To Learn – Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom, called the “bible of the maker movement in schools,” by Larry Magid of CBS and The San Jose Mercury News.When Jean Piaget wanted to better understand how children learn mathematics, he hired Seymour Papert. When Dr. Papert wanted to create a high-tech alternative learning environment for incarcerated at-risk teens, he hired Gary Stager. This work was the basis for Gary’s doctoral dissertation and documented Papert’s most-recent institutional research project.Dr. Stager’s work has earned a Ph.D. in Science and Mathematics Education and he collaborated on a project that won a Grammy Award. Recently, Gary was invited by Fondazione Reggio Children to lead a public seminar on education in Reggio Emilia, Italy.Gary is also on the advisory board of the NSF-funded project, BJC4NYC: Bringing a Rigorous Computer Science Principles Course to the Largest School System in the US. Dr. Stager also maintains the world’s largest archive of text and multimedia by Seymour Papert at The Daily Papert.Dr. Stager is also the publisher of more than a dozen books at Constructing Modern Knowledge Press (compress) and Cymbal Press (cymbalpress.com)Expertise:Progressive education Online educationConstructionism Educating at-risk learnersProject-based learning The Reggio Emilia ApproachThe life and work of Seymour Papert Teacher educationRobotics, coding, programming, and engineering for children The maker movementSoftware design Writing and publishingEvent organization Public speakingSchool reform S.T.E.M. / S.T.E.A.M.Parenting in the digital age Ending the school to prison pipelineSchool design Education leadershipArts advocacy Jazz and improvisation