“Jal Mehta is an associate professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He is the author of The Allure of Order: High Hopes, Dashed Expectations and the Troubled Quest to Remake American Schooling and the co-editor of The Futures of School Reform. He is currently working on two projects: In Search of Deeper Learning, a contemporary study of schools, systems, and nations that are seeking to produce ambitious instruction; and The Chastened Dream, a history of the effort to link social science with social policy to achieve social progress. John Paull, a long-time educator, naturalist, and writer, started his teaching career during the Open Education Era in England. Later he created and ran a University of Colorado alternative teacher credentialing program. He currently collaborates with the Denver public schools, offering ‘I’m a Scientist’ hands-on workshops for teachers, students and parents. A former teacher of children and teacher of teachers, John’s latest book, ‘Through my eyes: on becoming a teacher’, describes how he learned to motivate and engage his students by bringing the delights and mysteries of the outdoors in.”
