Our guest this week, Dr. Marc A. Meyer, has been active in K-12 education since 1997. He has served as Director of Academics and Head of the Ross School in East Hampton, NY and Head of the Brown School in Schenectady, NY. In 2002 Marc led a team of educators in the “soup to nuts” planning for an innovative K-8 school funded by Columbia University. He subsequently served as The School at Columbia University’s first Director of Curriculum and Research. Later, while working with the Hawn Foundation to develop and disseminate MindUP, and as the Foundations full-time Director of Education as Strategic Partnerships, Dr. Meyer conducted scores of professional development workshops on four continents and gave many public lectures on SEL and the neuroscience of learning. He has also worked as an educational consultant to many schools in New York, Texas, California, Colorado, and Vermont.