Invitation to Collaborate with Gary Stager & Sylvia Martinez in Asia

• Led professional development at the world’s first “laptop schools” in 1990
• Earned a Ph.D. in Science and Mathematics Education from The University of Melbourne
• Co-author of “the bible of the maker movement in schools,” now translated into nine languages
• Keynote speaker at prominent conferences around the world, including multiple WISE, NECC, NYSCATE, Future Schools, Edutech, ACEC, and BETT
• Taught in Reggio Emilia, Italy
• Worked in public, independent, and parochial schools around the world
• Longtime collaborator with Seymour Papert

• Inducted into the Consortium on School Networking’s Inaugural Time Capsule
• Delivered 4 TED Talks
• Publisher of approximately 25 books
• Expert on PBL, computer science for kids, & computational fluency
• Featured in an Australian educational leadership tour for Microsoft
• Designed one of the first online graduate school programs in 1997
• Collaborated on a project that won a Grammy Award
• Began teaching teachers at nineteen years-old

Hard fun workshops for educators

Generations of educators across the globe have benefited from participating in Dr. Stager’s hands-on workshops. These learning adventures are known for their imaginative use of technology, deep thinking, problem solving, skill development, and inspiration to continue learning and growing back in the classroom.

Major themes include: project-based learning, physical computing, engineering, robotics, computation, curriculum integration, the Reggio Emilia approach, and progressive education. Many schools choose to host a CMK @School professional development experience tailored to the needs of their community.

Here are some even more recent recollections about Gary’s professional activities.

In-classroom mentoring

Gary Stager is a master educator with experience teaching students from preschool through doctoral studies. Schools benefit from having him lead model lessons for teachers in their own classrooms. This expands their sense of their students’ capabilities, models best learner-centered practices – including “less us, more them,” improves prompt setting, and inspires practicing educators.

Gary’s superpower is as a classroom anthropologist quickly seeing what others may have missed, even after daily interactions in the same learning environment. His insights are beneficial to teachers interesting in their own personal growth and amplifying the potential of their students. Dr. Stager has worked with the same schools, districts, or states over an entire school year, multiple years, and even spent months at a time in residence at particular schools.

Speaking

Dr. Stager is a popular keynote speaker who has presented at the world’s leading conferences. He is just at home speaking to a group of parents, university students, community members, policymakers, or business leaders. His presentations are provocative, thoughtful, witty, and filled with examples of what the powerful ideas look like in practice. Gary’s talks are at the intersection of childhood, democracy, creativity, and modernity.

“Some people think outside the box. Gary is unaware of the box’s existence”

Futurist, Dr. David Thornburg

Family workshops

When parents and caregivers can see through the eyes, hands, and screens of their children what’s possible. They crave a different educational diet for the kids they love. Hands-on family workshops have been an incredibly powerful tool for schools interested in building consensus for change or supercharging other progressive efforts.

It’s now even possible to send each family home with cool hardware to keep inventive learning going long after the event. Family workshops may be on weekends or in the evening following other PD activities.

• A selection of popular family workshops and parent talks
• Explore thoughts and video from a family workshop.
• Here are some even more recent recollections about Gary’s professional activities.

Consulting, planning, evaluation

Dr. Stager has extensive experience helping schools set goals, achieve results, and sell the dream of a world in which kids wake up in the middle of the night with a burning desire to return to school to work on a project they care about and where teachers arise each morning with a desire to make today the best seven hours of a child’s life.

Let Gary help your learning community realize its potential.

Professional development retreats

Since the 1980s, Gary has led multi-day residential professional development retreats for schools across Australia and in the United States. His annual institute, Constructing Modern Knowledge, is a model of the powerful learning experiences made possible when learning becomes less rushed, more informal, uninterrupted, social, collaborative, and authentic.

Client schools can attest to how much more cost-effective, efficient, and beneficial these immersive experiences are when compared to an endless series of traditional after school PD sessions.

Student workshops

Want to kickstart computer use, engineering, computation, AI, or curiosity driven project-based learning in your school, Gary can help. Stuck in a rut? Let Dr. Stager expand the imaginations and fluency of your students.

Gary helps schools introduce new skills, activities, and domains of knowledge to learners of all ages. He can launch projects and provide ongoing real or virtual support as well.