Author Eileen Murphy Buckley

Eileen Murphy Buckley

Eileen Murphy Buckley, CEO of ThinkCERCA, taught English for 15 years and was the founding English Department Chair at Walter Payton College Prep as well as the author of 360 Degrees of Text (NCTE, 2011). As the Director of Curriculum and Instruction for over 100 of Chicago’s highest performing schools, she became passionate about the role technology could play in education in the 21st century and left CPS in 2012 to develop ThinkCERCA to help all students achieve career and college readiness. ThinkCERCA is one of the top Literacy Courseware Challenge winners (Gates Foundation), and Eileen was named one of Chicago’s Tech 50 2013 by Crain’s Chicago Magazine.

Why Personalized Learning Requires Technology and Thinking Humans

Eileen Murphy Buckley

Education

In How Learning Works: Seven Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching, Herbert A. Simon, a pioneer in the field of cognitive science, said, “Learning results from what the student does and thinks and...

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I Run ‘Facial Recognition’ on Buildings to Unlock Architectural Secrets

The Weight of the Presidency

Four Crises Facing the President and How History Can Help

Gullibility and the Triumph of the Con-Artists

Is the Era of In-Class Education Coming to an End?

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Jonathan Franzen, Climate Change and the Need for Imagination

UC Berkeley’s David A. Patterson Sees the Future After Moore’s Law

Some Renewable Energy Types Promise a Bright Future. Others are Merely Sci-Fi Fantasy

Author Eileen Murphy Buckley

Eileen Murphy Buckley

Why Personalized Learning Requires Technology and Thinking Humans