Santiago is involved in multiple efforts to liberate learning in school networks, districts, and education systems in the United States, Canada, Latin America, Africa, and Australia. As an educator and organizer, Santiago worked for over a decade to promote grassroots educational change initiatives in Mexican public schools serving historically marginalized communities. His academic work explores how effective pedagogies for deep learning can spread at scale. His most recent book is Liberating Learning: Educational Change as Social Movement. Santiago holds an Ed. M in International Education Policy and Ed. D on Education Policy, Leadership and Instructional Practice from Harvard. He completed postdoctoral studies and has been a visiting scholar at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. He lives in Toronto with his wife and their two boys.
Julie Stern
Julie Stern is a four-time, best selling author with two decades experience facilitating adult learning. She supports educators and parents with tools to empower young people and to make sense of complexity and use their learning to promote sustainability, equity, and well-being. Through keynotes, online courses, consulting, and writing, Julie teaches others how to become pattern seekers - recognizing the deeper patterns of the world - so that they can be who they want to be and build the type of world they want to live in. Her publications include Learning that Transfers, Visible Learning for Social Studies, The On-Your-Feet-Guide to Learning Transfer and Tools for Teaching Conceptual Understanding, Elementary and Secondary. Julie moves internationally every few years with her husband, a US diplomat, and her two children.
Santiago is involved in multiple efforts to liberate learning in school networks, districts, and education systems in the United States, Canada, Latin America, Africa, and Australia. As an educator and organizer, Santiago worked for over a decade to promote grassroots educational change initiatives in Mexican public schools serving historically marginalized communities. His academic work explores how effective pedagogies for deep learning can spread at scale. His most recent book is Liberating Learning: Educational Change as Social Movement. Santiago holds an Ed. M in International Education Policy and Ed. D on Education Policy, Leadership and Instructional Practice from Harvard. He completed postdoctoral studies and has been a visiting scholar at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. He lives in Toronto with his wife and their two boys.
Julie Stern is a four-time, best selling author with two decades experience facilitating adult learning. She supports educators and parents with tools to empower young people and to make sense of complexity and use their learning to promote sustainability, equity, and well-being. Through keynotes, online courses, consulting, and writing, Julie teaches others how to become pattern seekers - recognizing the deeper patterns of the world - so that they can be who they want to be and build the type of world they want to live in. Her publications include Learning that Transfers, Visible Learning for Social Studies, The On-Your-Feet-Guide to Learning Transfer and Tools for Teaching Conceptual Understanding, Elementary and Secondary. Julie moves internationally every few years with her husband, a US diplomat, and her two children.