Gregg Behr, executive director of The Grable Foundation since 2006, is a father and children’s advocate. For nearly 20 years, he has helped lead Remake Learning – a network of educators, technologists, designers, and makers he founded in 2007 – to international renown. Among the foremost examples of learning ecosystems, Remake Learning has turned heads everywhere from The White House to the World Economic Forum for its efforts to ignite children’s curiosity; encourage creativity; and foster joy and belonging in schools, libraries, museums, and other sites of learning. In 2023, HundrED named Behr as its Global Champion of the Year for inspiring learning innovation across continents. He’s an advisor to the Brookings Institution and the Fred Rogers Institute, and has been honored by the White House, the Disruptor Foundation, ISTE, and AASA with national awards as an innovator and thought leader in education and policy leadership. Behr holds degrees from the University of Notre Dame and Duke University, as well as honorary degrees from Saint Vincent College and Carlow University. He is the co-author of the nationally best-selling book, When You Wonder, You’re Learning: Mister Rogers’ Enduring Lessons for Raising Creative, Curious, Caring Kids.
By investing in the mechanisms that connect learning ecosystems, policymakers can build “neighborhoods” of learning that prepare students for citizenship, work, and life.
Building back better in a post-pandemic US will require federal investments in “learning ecosystems” that connect entire communities.