Ian Fogarty (he/him) teaches Chemistry, Physics and Math to 16-18 year old students at Riverview High School, a public school on the east coast of Canada. He left the research world designing anti-cancer radiopharmaceuticals to innovate how we learn and teach science. Some of his innovations include the creation of the first “Collaborative Classroom” that has more than one SMARTBoard in a classroom and an assessment model that has no grades until the end, which allows students to personalize their learning and focus on competencies.

He was the first Canadian to make the podium at the Microsoft Global Teacher event, to win the NSTA STEM Educator and FETC STEM Awards. In 2019, he was a top 50 finalist at the Global Teacher Prize (Dubai). His transdisciplinary projects won a top 10 in the world for sustainability in education (LA), top 100 in the world of innovation in education (Helsinki) and an Editor’s Choice award at the World Maker Fair (NYC).

His work has been published in over 9 books and he has contributed to 4 books and 3 Master’s Level textbooks in education and art. His most recent projects has students learn engineering by 3D printing and soldering lights for those living in light poverty (www.currentgeneration.org). Other projects use art to help physics students befriend the nervousness of exploring the edge of the unknown and is the subject of this master class at the largest teacher summit in the world. Ian owes much of this success at high school to his time with Shad, where he started in 2006.