Kristin Barklund
Program Coordinator
Vision
Our vision is to accelerate solutions to the most pressing challenges facing learners.
Stanford Accelerator for Learning is currently focused on five areas that show high need and high promise including digital learning, early childhood education, learning differences, underserved and under-resourced learners, and working learners
Mission
Our mission is to leverage the revolution in brain and learning sciences, data, and technology and to collaborate across disciplines and with partners to bring scalable and equitable solutions to all learners
Stanford Accelerator for Learning connects experts from the sciences, medicine, engineering, law, and the humanities to expedite solutions for all learners. We also bring researchers and partners in the field together to achieve true system change.
Why learning
We dedicate a tremendous percentage of our lives to learning.
Learning is correlated with most every positive life outcome – from better health and higher incomes to deeper community engagement. Societies that invest in learning benefit from lower crime rates and more stable governments, and experience more prosperity. Yet high quality learning opportunities remain out of reach for many across the globe with devastating consequences for families, societies, and economies.
Learning must be central to any plan to improve people’s lives.
The Stanford Accelerator for Learning will help usher in a new era of learning by harnessing the power of a research university, co-creating with those most engaged and aware in the field, and bringing knowledge, ideas, and solutions to the world.
Our Team
Kristen Pilner Blair
Director of Research, Digital Learning
Geoffrey M. Cox
Director, Stanford Learning Partners
Olivia B. Crawford
Chief Operating Officer
Philip Fisher
Faculty Director, Early Childhood
Isabelle Hau
Executive Director
Elizabeth Kozleski
Faculty Co-Director, Learning Differences
Susanna Loeb
Faculty Director, EdSolutions
Ira Lit
Faculty Co-Director, Learning Differences
Nereyda Salinas
Co-Director, Stanford Learning Partners
Dan Schwartz
I. James Quillen Dean, Nomellini & Olivier Professor of Educational Technology, and The Halper Family Faculty Director of the Stanford Accelerator for Learning
Candace Thille
Faculty Director, Adult Learning
Angela Hall Watkins
Chief Development Officer