A former public school educator of 22 years, Will Richardson has spent the last 15 years developing an international reputation as a leading thinker and writer about the intersection of social online learning networks, education, and systemic change. Most recently, Will is a co-founder of The Big Questions Institute which was created to help educators use “fearless inquiry” to make sense … Read More

Timothy Quinn is marketing and communications director for Princeton Public Library. He has devoted the better part of two decades to volunteer advocacy work for youth, including seven years on the Princeton Board of Education (three as president), where he focused on student wellness and educational equity. Tim is co-chairman of the Anchor House Ride For Runaways, an annual weeklong … Read More

Peter Bergson began his career in 1967 at Synectics, Inc., a consulting firm that specialized in creative group problem solving. Having recently read John Holt’s How Children Fail, he soon realized that what he was doing was teaching adults how to think like toddlers, thereby reversing the effects of conventional schooling. He married Susan Shilcock in 1975, and together they founded a preschool/kindergarten … Read More

Blake Boles is the founder and director of Unschool Adventures and the author of Why Are You Still Sending Your Kids to School?, The Art of Self-Directed Learning, Better Than College, and College Without High School. He hosts the Off-Trail Learning podcast and has delivered over 75 presentations for education conferences, alternative schools, and parent groups. Blake and his work have appeared on The New York Times, The Christian Science … Read More

Susan Snipes-Wells is President of Snipes Properties, Inc, in Falls Township, PA. She also serves as the Secretary of the Bucks County Food Shed Alliance and as a board member of the Pennsbury Education Foundation. She has a BA from Earlham College and an M.Ed. from Temple University.

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Ken Danford is co-founder and director of North Star in Sunderland, MA, which was the inspiration for PLC. Over the past 20 years, Ken Danford has helped hundreds of families and teens use a self-directed approach to learning to improve their lives. Ken is the author of Learning is Natural, School is Optional: The North Star approach to offering teens a … Read More

Retiring in 2020, Paul served as the founding staff member at Princeton Learning Cooperative in 2010 and at Bucks Learning Cooperative in 2015. His career as an educator spanned more than 25 years across three continents: Europe, Africa, and the United States. Paul holds an undergraduate degree in education with a major in mathematics from Lancaster College and graduate level … Read More