Origins of Agile in Education - A Conversation with Steve Peha

Steve Peha is the founder of Teaching That Makes Sense, an
education consultancy specializing in literacy, student
engagement, and instructional innovation. He has written
extensively on developing young people’s literacy and his book
‘Be a Better Writer’, written with his wife, Margot Carmichael
Lester, was an Amazon #1 “Hot New Release” in teen writing. The
book also won a Parents’ Choice Recommended Award, a 2016 Best
Book Gold Medal Award in Young Adult Nonfiction. It has also
received an award nomination from YALSA, the Young Adult Library
Services Association, part of the American Library Association.


Steve’s new novel ‘Jordan's Run’, a near-future dystopic look at
American culture, won the 2019 Spark Award at New York's BookCon.
He is also working right now on an essay collection for the 2020
election called "We All Breathe the Same Air" based on JFK's
famous American University speech.


Since 1995, Steve has written widely on teaching, learning, and
writing for publications like The Washington Post, The National
Journal, Psychology Today, Edutopia, Education Post, and many
others. In 2001, he created The Effective Learning Series for The
Seattle Times and received an Innovators in Education from the
Newspaper Association of America.


In particular, Steve wrote a very prescient piece for InfoQ in
June 2011 entitled, ‘Agile Schools: How Technology Saves
Education (Just Not the Way We Thought it Would)’. He has also
spoken at Yahoo, Google and Paypal on the topic of introducing
Agile strategies into education.


Prior to starting Teaching That Makes Sense, Steve held top
management positions with several technology companies. As
founder of Music Technology Associates, a multimedia consulting
company, he developed Music Mentor, an award-winning music
education program for the Windows Multimedia PC platform.


Social Links


Twitter: https://twitter.com/stevepeha


LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevepeha/