Dr. Dan Johnson

For more than 25 years Dr. Dan Johnson has been a leader in educational change. As a parent, grandparent, teacher, principal, and superintendent, Dan believes that change begins with what kids know and are able to do and ends with a commitment to life-long learning. Parents and educators, he says, guide and add value to the learning process, but they cannot and should not try to control it.

A former English teacher and middle school principal, Dan earned his doctorate from the University of Pittsburgh in 1980. For the past seventeen years he has been a school superintendent in three states, most recently in Loveland Colorado. Dan has published five books and several articles on personality types, learning styles, organizational development, and change. In the mid 90's Dan directed professional development for a consortium of 20 Northshore Chicago school districts focused on improving mathematics and science education. During that time he worked closely with the U.S. Department of Education and has since conducted workshops nationwide, working with such educational leadership groups as Bill Daggett's International Center for Leadership in Education, Schools Attuned (a partner of Mel Levine's All Kinds of Minds Institute), the Public Education and Business Coalition of Colorado, Paul and Elder's critical thinking, and the California Early Literacy Learning group founded by Dr. Stan Swartz.

Dan's focus for the past several years has been developing a systemic process to sustain meaningful change in our public schools through his Four Ps: purpose, parameters, principles, and priorities. He uses the Four Ps for what he calls "connecting people for a change." Through Triple-C-21 Dan helps parents, teachers, school administrators, and school board members develop partnerships with business and higher education that transform public schools from stand alone organizations to dynamic players in the social and economic mainstream of their community.

Dan is a life-long learner. He loves carpentry, in particular building furniture. He and his wife, Cynthia, also enjoy building both indoor and outdoor fountains and recently designed and built an extensive playhouse for their six-year-old granddaughter, Izze.

If you like quality, you'll probably like Dan - almost as much as Izze does.