Mentors & 

Role Models

His The Global Achievement Gap does a fair job of explaining how our faith in Three "R's" is rendering our country obsolete.  Check out his 7 Skills talk here.

Brene Brown

John Spencer

John Hattie

Heidi Hayes Jacobs

The author of Curriculum 21: Essential Education for a Changing World is an important voice in the world of educational innovation.  I particularly enjoy how she has declared war on the #2 pencil.

Ingrid Fatell Lee

Designer and author of Joyful: The Surprising Power of Ordinary Things to Create Extraordinary Happiness, Lee has studied the phenomenon of joy across the world through the lens of evolutionary psychology and found that simple changes in our environment can make profound changes to our mindset and behavior.