Tony Wagner
Tony Wagner
  • Innovation Education Fellow at Harvard
  • Cofoundner of Change Leadership Group
  • Author of "The Global Achievement Gap"

Biography

Tony Wagner recently accepted a position as the first Innovation Education Fellow at the Technology & Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard. Prior to this, he was the founder and co-director of the Change Leadership Group at the Harvard Graduate School of Education for more than a decade.

Tony consults widely to schools, districts, and foundations around the country and internationally. His previous work experience includes twelve years as a high school teacher, K-8 principal, university professor in teacher education, and founding executive director of Educators for Social Responsibility.

Tony is also a frequent speaker at national and international conferences and a widely published author. His work includes numerous articles and five books. Tony’s latest, Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change The World, has just been published by Simon & Schuster. His recent 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 has been a best seller and is being...

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Why Change? Motivating Adult Learning
Reinventing' America's High Schools
The Challenges of Change Leadership
Learning, Leading, and Teaching in the 21st Century
In America today, there is a new Achievement Gap: it is the gap between the new skills that all students...

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Everything was wonderful. Tony was fabulous, his keynote was perfect. He is a very talented public speaker, not always the case for academics in my experience, he delivered his message in a clear and engaging way which the audience really responded to. They walked away inspired and full of ideas. We had wonderful feedback from the audience, no complaints, for over 900 people that’s not bad! It was a pleasure working with you, everyone at Premiere was extremely helpful and pleasant~ Thank you!

Lara Kain, Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction

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