Dr. Tony Wagner
CREATING INNOVATORS
Keynote Address for the Innovative Education Summit
The American Education system has become obsolete.
It needs reinventing, not reforming.
Saturday, April 11th 9:30 am
Johnson Chapel, Amherst College
Dr. Tony Wagner has consulted widely to schools,
districts, and foundations all around the world. He was the
founder and co-director of the Change Leadership Group
at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, spent
twelve years as a high school teacher, K-8 principal,
university professor in teacher education, and was the
founding executive director of Educators for Social
Responsibility. Tony has written numerous articles and
five books on education, the newest being Creating
Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will
Change the World, collaborated with noted filmmaker
Robert Compton to create a documentary on the Finnish
school system, and served as the educational adviser to
the film Most Likely to Succeed, which premiered at
Sundance this year.
