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   * Gary Stager
   * Sylvia Martinez




GARY STAGER

“Some people think outside of the box. Gary is unaware of the box’s existence.”
Dr. David Thornburg
Futurist

Gary working with students in Virginia


DID YOU KNOW?

 * Gary led professional development in the world’s first laptop schools (1990)
 * Gary designed one of the first online masters degree programs
 * Gary created an alternative learning environment for at-risk students inside
   a prison for teens
 * Gary earned a Ph.D. in Science and Mathematics Education
 * Gary was part of a team that won the 2007 Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz
   Recording
 * Gary was invited by Fondazione Reggio Children to lead a public seminar on
   education in Reggio Emilia, Italy

Gary Stager is a recognized pioneer in 1:1 computing, online learning, and
computer science for all students. He has taught learners from preschool through
the doctoral level and spent 38 years helping teachers around the world embrace
technology as way of amplifying the potential of each student.

Gary is a popular keynote speaker known across the globe for his fearless
advocacy on behalf of teachers and children. Educators leave his presentations
energized and empowered to change their practice and the world of the kids they
serve.

SHORT BIO

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.



LEARN MORE ABOUT GARY

 * Longer biography & detailed expertise
 * Video library (including four TEDx talks)
 * Publications by Gary Stager
 * Reviews of Dr. Stager’s work
 * Publicity photos
 * Gary Stager’s blog
 * The Daily Papert

 

EXPERTISE

 * Coding in K-12 classrooms
 * The maker movement
 * S.T.E.M.
 * Early Childhood Education, including the Reggio Emilia Approach
 * 1:1 computing
 * At-risk learners
 * School reform
 * Teacher education
 * The politics of public education
 * Schools where kids love to learn
 * Parenting in the digital age
 * Ending the school to prison pipeline

 

AWARDS AND RECOGNITION

 * 1998 recipient of the Outstanding Educator Award by the New Jersey
   Educational Computing Consortium
 * Converge Magazine named Gary a “shaper of our future and inventor of our
   destiny.” (1999)
 * Best columnist finalist – Association of Education Publishers Distinguished
   Achievement Awards. (2006)
 * The National School Boards Association recognized Dr. Stager with the
   distinction of “20 Leaders to Watch” (2007)
 * Gary was the new media producer for The Brian Lynch/Eddie Palmeri Project –
   Simpatíco, 2007 Grammy Award Winner for Best Latin Jazz Album of the Year.
   The album also won the a similar award from the Jazz Journalists Association.
   Collaborator on a project by Brian Lynch which was also nominated for a
   Grammy Award in 2017.
 * Tech & Learning Magazine named Gary Stager as “one of today’s leaders who are
   changing the landscape of edtech through innovation and leadership.” (2010)
 * CUE presented Gary with its Technology in Learning Leadership Award. (2012)
   Prior winners include George Lucas, Guy Kawasaki, and Marc Andreesen.
 * Keynote speaker at the 2017 WISE Conference in Doha, Qatar
 * Keynote speaker at the 2017 Transforming Education Conference for Humanity
   sponsored by UNESCO and the Mahatma Gandhi Institute in Visakhapatnam, India
 * Entered into the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) EdTech Time Capsule,
   the culmination of a national crowdsourcing project that sought to identify
   the top 25 products, people and developments that transformed education
   through technology over the last 25 years. (2017)

 

PRESS

Gary has appeared in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, NPR’s All Things
Considered, Nature, The Chronicle of High Education, Parade Magazine, Wired, The
Huffington Post, Edutopia, Scholastic Administrator, District
Administration, Technology and Learning, Education Week, American School Boards
Journal, California School Business Magazine, Educational Leadership, Learning
and Leading with Technology, Technology and Learning, ASCD Education Update,
KQED Mindshift, Converge, Logo Exchange, eSchool News, The Age (Melbourne
Australia), Education HQ (Australia) Crikey (Australia), as well as public radio
(US), the ABC (Australia), Canberra Times (Australia) Sunraysia Daily
(Australia), and Peruvian television.

INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE

Gary has worked, studied, or spoken in Australia, Canada, China, India, Finland,
Hong Kong, Brazil, Mexico, Peru, New Zealand, Poland, England, Lithuania,
Bulgaria, Spain, Costa Rica, Slovakia, France, Thailand, Italy, Austria, Turkey,
The Netherlands, Denmark, South Africa, Singapore, Belgium, Philippines, Qatar,
Egypt, and across the United States.

CLIENTS INCLUDE

Intel, Apple, LEGO, Toshiba, Microsoft, Disney, Universal Studios, Logo Computer
Systems, Inc., Tom Snyder Productions, Claris, ICT Qatar, Fundacion Omar Dengo
(Costa Rica), Generation YES, Victoria Department of Education,  New South Wales
Department of Education, Queensland Department of Education, Australian Capital
Territory Department of Education, Compaq, One Laptop Per Child, Telefonica
(Peru), and countless schools and school districts around the world.



Gary Stager is a unique speaker who never fails to entertain, inform, and
inspire. Gary’s offers a unique combination of intellect and wit that provokes
conversation and smiles alike. He is a committed educator who comes to a
conference ready to roll up his sleeves and work. Gary can have audiences on
their feet cheering at a keynote and a half hour later be fielding questions and
presenting his latest ideas in a breakout session or at a conference reception.
He is straight talking, fearless, and a visionary educational leader who ‘tells
it as it is’. Gary’s presence has always brought our conference to another,
higher, level.
Pete Reilly
President, NYSCATE





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