About me
Erik is a fourth-grade teacher at The Quaker Valley School District near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and has been teaching since 1999.His builds opportunities in the classroom by remixing and applying ideas from Cultures of Thinking, Visible Thinking, Agency by Design, and Teaching for Understanding with the goal of building student capacity for optimum growth. Erik has served as coach for the online learning course Creating Cultures of Thinking and as a facilitator for the Creating Cultures of Thinking online mini course. He is featured in publications including The Power of Making Thinking Visible by Dr. Ron Ritchhart and Mark Church and The Participatory Creativity Guide for Educators by Edward P. Clapp and Julie Rains. Erik has been a Study Group Leader at The Project Zero Classroom and presented in regional workshops including Project Zero Perspectives, Agency by Design-Pittsburgh Conference, and Project Zero Pittsburgh: Summer Institute for Teaching and Learning.
