🎙️ Ep 3 · Ed on the Edge | The Education Whisperer: Tom Vander Ark

The Renaissance educator...Vander Ark has been a business leader, foundation head, advisor, investor, and policy architect.

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Tom Vander Ark is an advocate for better learning for everyone. As the CEO of Getting Smart, he provides advisory services to schools, districts, networks, foundations, and learning organizations, guiding them on the path forward.

With a portfolio of over 50 books and papers, including notable works like Getting Smart, Smart Cities, Smart Parents, Better Together, and The Power of Place, Tom has established himself as a prolific author and co-author.

He brings valuable experience as a former public school superintendent and the first Executive Director of Education for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Tom's dedication to education is evident through his involvement on the boards of nonprofits such as Education Board Partners, 4.0 Schools, Digital Learning Institute, eduInnovation, and his advisory roles with One Stone, Teton Science Schools, Whittle School & Studios, and the Mastery Transcript Consortium.

P.S. Tom contributed to the recent Hoover Institution publication, A Nation At Risk +40 | A Review of Progress in US Public Education. Read his chapter, “Unfulfilled Promise: The Forty-Year Shift from Print to Digital and Why It Failed to Transform Learning” here.