Thomas Hatch (@tch960) is a Professor at Teachers College, Columbia University and
Director of the National Center for Restructuring Education, Schools, and Teaching
(NCREST). His research includes studies of school improvement efforts at the school, district,
and national levels. His latest book, The Education We Need for a Future We Can’t Predict
(Corwin, 2021), focuses on efforts to create more powerful learning experiences both inside
and outside schools in developed and developing contexts. He is also the founder and
managing editor of a weekly blog and daily news feed, internationalednews.com. He previously
served as a Senior Scholar at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.