Gary Chapin is the co-author of the 126 Falsehoods We Believe About Education, which sums up his education reform philosophy and is also very entertaining.

He has been working in education since 2000, first as a teacher (9th-grade Social Studies in Central Maine), then as a curriculum director, and then as a Dept. of Ed. researcher. For the past ten years, he has been a consultant, advocate, and supporter of equity-based practices such as competency-based learning, performance assessment, adaptive leadership, and collaborative cultures. He is deeply fascinated by questions like: What should kids learn? How do we decide what kids should learn? How do we learn what they learned? How can learning what they learned help them learn more? Also: systems!

Over the past eight years has worked on teams providing support to schools and districts implementing performance-based practices, policies, and cultures. He’s worked with schools in all the New England states as well as California, Hawai’i, New Mexico, North Dakota, Kentucky, and a bunch more.

Also, Gary plays the accordion.