Bio

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Dr. Connie K. Chung is a researcher working with policymakers, researchers, and practitioners who are equipping young people to thrive in a rapidly changing world and to build more caring, just, and sustainable communities. She most recently served at a county child welfare agency as a Foster America Fellow.

She has co-designed and managed multi-country comparative research projects and co-edited three books about teaching and learning in the 21st century in her former roles as lecturer and associate director of Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Global Education Innovation Initiative: Teaching and Learning for the Twenty-First Century: Educational Goals, Policies, and Curricula from Six Nations (Harvard Education Press, 2016); Building Bridges to the Future: Global Case Studies of Teaching and Learning in the 21st Century (Smashwords, Inc, 2018); Preparing Teachers to Educate Whole Students: An International Comparative Study (Harvard Education Press, 2018).

She was part of a 5-year national study about how strong community organizing groups can create transformational change in individuals, communities, and educational institutions, the results of which were published in A Match on Dry Grass: Community Organizing as a Catalyst for School Reform (Oxford University Press, 2011).

She was commissioned by Australia’s New South Wales Department of Education to contribute to the book, Future Frontiers: Education for an AI World (University of Melbourne Press, 2017). She also co-authored a curriculum resource for global citizenship education, Empowering Global Citizens: A World Course (CreateSpace Independent Publishing, 2016). From 2016 to 2019, she worked with the OECD Education 2030 Project, conducting curriculum analysis of 34 economies, a national education policy review of Portugal, and leading a working group on the study of attitudes and values.

She is a recipient of the 2018 Oxford University Scholarships in Comparative and International Education for an essay written about education, uncertainty, and the changing nature of society. A former foster parent and high school English teacher, she was recognized by students as an influential teacher, including a winner of the Stanford Terman Award. She received her BA, EdM (Teaching and Curriculum, 1999 and International Education Policy, 2007), and doctorate from Harvard University.