Andrew Calkins

Experience

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  Scholastic

  Jan 1980 - Jan 1984

  Editor, Electronic Learning Magazine

  Helped to create and utlimately led Scholastic's first publication in educational technology.

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  Scholastic Inc.

  Jan 1996 - Jan 1998

  Executive Director, Reading Together Initiative

  Rejoined Scholastic to lead a range of sponsored education initiatives, including the national Reading Together initiative and, later, Scholastic's contract with the National Science Foundation to produce materials for National Science and Technology Week.

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  Mass Insight Education & Research Institute

  Jan 1999 - Jan 2009

  Senior Vice President

  Lead author and developer of The Turnaround Challenge, Mass Insight's influential 2007 report offering an analysis and framework for turning around under-performing public schools: using school turnaround, in fact, as a catalyst for the redesign of basic school and district functions, approaches, structures, and operating habits. Go to www.massinsight.org for more.

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  Stupski Foundaton

  Apr 2009 - Mar 2011

  Senior Program Officer

  Managing a range of initiatives as part of the Stupski Foundation's effort to advance what it called NxGL: Next Generation learning. I was one of about ten people called in to craft the foundation's strategy "reboot" after its first decade and $100M spent in support of district management improvement -- which was viewed as overly incremental as a reform strategy.

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  Next Generation Learning Challenges

  Apr 2011 - now

  Next Generation Learning Challenges is an initiative managed by the not-for-profit organization EDUCAUSE with funding from the Gates and Hewlett Foundations. Its goal is to help lead the redesign of American public education to enable our young people to meet the challenges of life, citizenship, and careers in the 21st century. Its founding assumption is that this redesign process will involve the use of technology as a form of disruptive innovation. NGLC is not about technology, per se -- it's about better, more personalized, more meaningful education and better outcomes for kids. But technology has brought about the redesign and reinvention of other sectors of society... and that process is already happening in public education. The question is: how can we ensure that technology's impacts are as positive as they have the potential to be. Show less

  • Co-Director

    Jun 2021 - now

  • Director

    Apr 2011 - Jun 2021