Preparing Educators For A Dynamic Tomorrow
I am an educator, philosopher, and entrepreneur working at the intersection of humanistic values and frontier technology.
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Areas of Interest
How do we preserve what matters while navigating what’s coming?
Citizenship
What makes a good citizen? How can we make civic society a more productive forum for change?
Education
What is the purpose of education? How can we solve challenges facing educators?
Basic Rights
What do we need to do to ensure that basic rights are universally protected for everyone?
Humanities
How can we ensure that the humanities are valued for their vital role in a healthy democracy?
Entrepreneurship
What are the best ways to encourage innovation to solve problems, both individual and societal?
Humanity
What makes life worth living and how can we encourage, protect, and nourish that for everyone?
Exploring These Questions
Podcast
Margin of Thought is a podcast where I feature wide-ranging conversations with educators, civic leaders, technologists, academics, and students to explore those questions. Each season centers on a key tension in modern life that affects how we raise and educate our children.
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Newsletter
The Margins is a newsletter where I think through my guiding questions in public. You’ll find reflections on ed tech ethics, the philosophy of parenting, civic education, and the legitimacy crisis facing schools. Sometimes I’ll analyze a case study. Sometimes I’ll just be working something out.
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Books
Ethical Ed Tech
Educators across the world are facing a crisis about how to adapt to growing technological influence over our classrooms and lives. The way forward? Going backwards to our roots through dialogue.
The core argument: ethical technology implementation requires community alignment across three domains—philosophy (what we value), policy (what we commit to), and practice (what we do).
AI & The Future Of Education
Among teachers, there is a cloud of rumors, confusion, and fear surrounding the rise of artificial intelligence. AI and the Future of Education is a timely response to this general state of panic, showing you that AI can be a tool to leverage, not a threat to teaching and learning.
Formats & Translations: Audiobook (Tantor Media, 2024), Arabic, Simplified Chinese, Turkish, Vietnamese
Projects
Building a responsible, ethical, human-centered future for educational technology.
Dedicated to civics education that prepares students to tackle future challenges.
Scaling critical thinking instruction at educational institutions around the world.
PedagogyFutures
PedagogyFutures is our nonprofit arm that delivers educator workshops, online courses, and in-depth training to prepare teachers and schools for the future of learning. From AI literacy programs to creative curriculum co-design, PedagogyFutures empowers educators to thrive in modern classrooms.
The organization has reached over 50,000 teachers through professional development courses, lesson plans, workshops, research, guidebooks, and classroom tools. Courses are accredited for graduate-level credit by Southern New Hampshire University and approved for state PD credit in 7 states.
Visit Site →Academy 4 Social Civics
At Academy 4 Social Civics, we empower students through interdisciplinary curricula to become informed, compassionate, and action-oriented civic leaders who are capable of addressing the pressing challenges of today and tomorrow.
A4SC provides curricula, teacher resources, and student programs that have reached over 7,500 students worldwide. The video library covers 250+ topics with over two million views.
Visit Site →Thinker
Developed in response to documented skill deficits and discourse breakdowns, Thinker is a non-profit coalition of scholars and ed tech leaders working to scale critical thinking instruction at education institutions around the world.
We work with universities including Georgia State, Notre Dame, NYU, UBC, and UT Austin. The platform uses argument mapping to make the logical structure of arguments visible, producing measurable gains in critical thinking.
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