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Tony Wagner

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... Read full bio

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Office Pranks: Can They Make Workers More Creative?
Time, May 9, 2012
...to lob water balloons at the firm’s windows. (MORE: Paul: How to Increase Your Powers of Observation) Tony Wagner, the co-director of the Change Leadership Group at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, sees pranks as an expression of a vital need....
New Book by Harvard Educator Praises Olin as Model of Educational Innovation
CBS2.com, May 1, 2012
...College of Engineering as a model for innovation in higher education. The book, (Scribner, April 2012), is by Tony Wagner, co-director of the Change Leadership Group at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. The just-released volume explores what...
What We Learned at the Skillshare Conference
The Next Web, April 24, 2012
...is active learning necessary but also using the knowledge you have acquired once out of the classroom. As Tony Wagner, co-founder of Change Management Group at Harvard University, said, “The world doesn’t care what you know. What the world cares...
Last Chance: Superintendent's Book Club, Glass Art
Kensington Patch, April 24, 2012
...s deadlines. Superintendent's Book Club You have a couple hours to finish The Global Achievement Gap by Tony Wagner. Montgomery County Public Schools Superintendent Joshua Starr will host his third book club tonight at 7 p.m. at Carver Educational...
Homa Sabet Tavangar: Parenting 2.0: Raising a Compassionate, Innovative Citizen of the World, Not the 'Next Steve Jobs
Huffington Post, April 23, 2012
...A new book, Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World , by Harvard's Tony Wagner, who made a splash with The Global Achievement Gap (which serves as a terrific companion to the new book), offers surprising insight. As we...
The X Factor: What You Need For Innovation
AskMen US, April 17, 2012
...Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World (Scribner), by Tony Wagner, is in stores April 17th. This is an excerpt from Chapter One: A Primer on Innovation. Research shows that human beings are born with an innate desire...
Superintendent Starr To Host Final Book Club April 24
Potomac Patch, April 16, 2012
...Superintendent Joshua Starr will host his third book club event April 24, discussing The Global Achievement Gap by Tony Wagner . The discussion starts at 7 p.m. at the  Carver Educational Services Center , and it will be broadcast on MCPS TV. ...
One thing we can do is stop
AsiaSource, April 24, 2012
...student's acquisition and demonstration of skills. We're looking to the result, not the process. I enjoyed Tony Wagner's talk. I think that the AMI Montessori method actually encourages and supports all 7 of the skills Wagner speaks of in his talk. This...
Homa Sabet Tavangar: Parenting 2.0: Raising a Compassionate, Innovative Citizen of the World, Not the 'Next Steve Jobs
Huffington Post, April 23, 2012
...A new book, Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World , by Harvard's Tony Wagner, who made a splash with The Global Achievement Gap (which serves as a terrific companion to the new book), offers surprising insight. As we...
Duxbury school volunteer chosen for ‘Mom Congress’ on education
Boston Globe, April 22, 2012
...parents and teachers keep current with top educational thinking, the Parent Connection brought nationally known educator and author Tony Wagner to Duxbury earlier this month to speak on ?Teaching Our Kids How to Think vs. What to Think: Why Even the Best...
Upcoming Community Events starting April 21, 2012
Fayette Daily News, April 20, 2012
...for shop is $30 and pre-registration is required....to register call 770-599-0051 or visit www.fcft.net/ACOFAuditions. Dr. Tony Wagner, a national leader in education reform, will speak during a Town Hall meeting on April 26 at Starr’s Mill High...
Can Innovation Skills Be Learned?
Edutopia, April 20, 2012
...Tony Wagner (@DrTonyWagner on Twitter) is the founder and former co-director of the Change Leadership Group at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and author of Creating Innovators: The Making of...
Education Reform Lecture with Tony Wagner Tonight
East Windsor Patch, April 19, 2012
...Speaker Tony Wagner will talk to parents and teachers of public and independent schools on revolutionary ideas about education reform Thursday night at Peddie School . “I think both parents and teachers need...
Fostering innovation in public education
Examiner.com, April 18, 2012
...asserted that Public schools must become incubators of innovative and gifted minds.� Just a few days ago, Tony Wagner writing for the Wall Street Journal, wrote that interviews with “scores of innovators, their parents, teachers and employers” had...