Dan Ryder

High school English teacher by title, idea wrangler, design thinker, improviser and educator by practice, co-author of Intention: Critical Creativity in the Classroom, Dan Ryder has taught for nearly 20 years at Mt. Blue Campus in Farmington, Maine. He has presented his work on critical creativity, empathy fueled problem solving, and the improviser’s mindset at numerous conferences and workshops, including SXSWedu, iPadpalooza and Stanford d.School’s K12 Summit. Co-founder of education consultancy, Wicked Decent Learning, and an advocate for online tribe finding, Dan can be followed @wickeddecent across the social media edu-sphere. He lives with his brilliantly beautiful librarian wife and their two creatively hilarious kids in western Maine.