Expert Panel
Contributors
Some of the most admired experts and leaders in fields such as education theory and practice, literacy, math, business and organizational leadership, and the military in both the United States and abroad worked on NISL's curriculum and course content.
Education Theory and Practice
Tom Sobol
Professor of Education,
Teachers College,
Columbia University
Barry McGaw
Deputy Director for Education, Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development
Sam Stringfield
Director, Center for Social Organization of Schools,
Johns Hopkins University
Peter Hill
Secretary General of the Hong Kong Standards and Assessment Authority; Former Director of Research and Development, NCEE
Literacy
Lucy Calkins
Founding Director and Professor of Education, Teachers College,
Columbia University
Gay Su Pinnell
Writer, known for her work in investigating, implementing, and developing the Reading Recovery Program
Sally Hampton
Former Senior Noyce Foundation Fellow and Scholar at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and now Senior Fellow, America's Choice
Catherine Snow
Henry Lee Shattuck,
Professor,
Harvard Graduate School of Education
Barbara Foorman
Professor of Pediatrics and Director of the Center for Academic and Reading Skills at the University of Texas, Houston, Health Science Center
Math
Li Ping Ma
Senior Scholar at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching in New York
Phil Daro
Former Executive Director, California Institutes for Teacher Professional Development, University of California; Senior Associate, NCEE
Business and Organizational Leadership
Peter Senge
Senior Lecturer, MIT; Chairperson of the Society for Organizational Learning
Robert Joss
Dean, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University
Lester Thurow
Professor of Management and Economics, Sloan School of Management, MIT
Marie Eiter
Director of Executive Education,
Sloan School of Management, MIT
Military
Tom Moorman
USAF, General (Ret.), Former Commander, Space Command; Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton
John Fryer
USAF, Major General (Ret.), Former Commandant, The National War College; Former Superintendent of Schools, Duval County Public Schools, Jacksonville, FL