Kaleb Rashad, Ed.D(c), is the director of the Gary & Jerri-Ann Jacobs High Tech High. Kaleb is passionate about Culture, People and Projects especially as a means of cultivating imagination, creativity and innovation. He teaches courses on creativity, innovation, and design thinking in the HTH Graduate School of Education. His dissertation research focuses on trust develoment practices within schools. Kaleb received a B.A. in Human Development from Azusa Pacific University (APU), an M.A. in Teaching & Learning and an M.A. in Educational Administration from APU. He is currently a doctoral candidate at APU (2016). Before entering college, Kaleb served in the US Marines, at Camp Pendleton, for four years. Other professional activities include playing with design thinking at Stanford University, with the Henry Ford Learning Institute, Lime Design, the Mt. Vernon Institute for Innovation, and with Leadership + Design. Kaleb is also training to become a consultant with Thinking Collaborative (aka The Center for Adaptive Schools).

Bo Adams considers himself first and foremost to be a learner. He treasures being a husband and a dad, as well as an educator. Bo identifies as a lifelong runner, and he experiences regular bouts of obsession with triathlon, mountain biking, and kayaking. Bo loves to read, write, draw, design, tinker, think and do. Bo believes any boundaries between school and life should be blurred and semi-permeable at least. For more than a decade, his core research question has been, “If school is meant to prepare kids for real life, then why doesn’t school look more like real life?”

In June 2013, Bo joined Mount Vernon Presbyterian School as Chief Learning and Innovation Officer. Head of School Dr. Brett Jacobsen announced the appointment on May 14, and Bo could not be more excited to become a member of the team at this leading school of inquiry, innovation, and impact. Bo remains active as an edu-blogger at It’s About Learning (https://itsaboutlearning.wordpress.com) and @boadams1 on Twitter. Additionally, Bo regularly pursues deeper understanding in the area of “schools of the future and the future of schools.” Bo currently serves on the board of directors at MODA.

From July 2012 to May 2013, Bo served as the Director of Educational Innovation at Unboundary, a strategic design studio in Atlanta, Georgia, specializing in transformational change processes, communications, and brand significance.

From 1995 until 2012, Bo worked at The Westminster Schools in Atlanta, Georgia, where he fulfilled a number of roles during his tenure there. In Bo’s last nine years at Westminster, he served as the principal of the Junior High School. In 2006, Bo co-founded The Center for Teaching at The Westminster Schools. Bo’s primary points of focus throughout his principalship were faculty development, professional learning communities, assessment literacy, project-based learning, change management and educational innovation. In 2010, Bo and Jill Gough launched “Synergy” – a community-issues, project-based, problem-identification-and-solutions course for eighth graders. Prior to coming to Westminster, Bo worked at Darlington School in Rome, Georgia; Loudoun Country Day School in Leesburg, Virginia; and Camp Sea Gull in Arapahoe, North Carolina.