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Biography
Dr. Tony Wagner has served as codirector of the Change Leadership Group (CLG) at the Harvard Graduate School of Education since its inception in 2000. An initiative of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, CLG is a research and development center that helps teams to be effective change leaders in schools and districts. He is also on the faculty of the Executive Leadership Program for Educators, a joint initiative of Harvard’s Graduate School of Education, Business School, and Kennedy School of Government. Dr. Wagner consults widely for public and independent schools, districts, and foundations around the country and internationally. He has been senior advisor to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for the past nine years.
Dr. Wagner has worked for more than 35 years in the field of school improvement, and is a frequent keynote speaker and widely published author on education and society. Prior to assuming his current position at Harvard, he was a high school teacher for 12 years, school principal, university professor in teacher education, cofounder and first executive director of Educators for Social Responsibility, project director for the Public Agenda Foundation in New York, and president and CEO of the Institute for Responsive Education. Dr. Wagner earned his master of arts degree in teaching and doctorate in education at Harvard University.
Dr. Wagner’s publications include numerous articles in both education journals and national magazines. He has authored four books: Change Leadership: A Practical Guide to Transforming Our Schools, Making the Grade: Reinventing America’s Schools, How Schools Change: Lessons From Three Communities Revisited and his latest book, The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Our Best Schools Don't Teach the New Survival Skills Our Children Need—And What We Can Do About It.
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