Over the past three+ decades, Dr. Eric Toshalis has served public education in a variety of roles including middle and high school teacher, coach, mentor teacher, teacher educator, union president, community activist, curriculum writer, researcher, professor, author, consultant, and research director. Recognized as Teacher of the Year by his school district in Santa Barbara County in 1997 and awarded the Certificate of Distinction in Teaching by Harvard College in 2002, Eric has long focused on what it takes to educate adolescents and adults who bring a diversity of cultural, ethnic, gender, linguistic, racial, sexual, and socioeconomic insights. Eric received his B.A., teaching credential, and M.Ed. from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a master's degree from Harvard Divinity School. He completed his doctorate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 2007. With Michael J. Nakkula, Eric coauthored the book _Understanding Youth: Adolescent Development for Educators_, which was published by Harvard Education Press in 2006. Eric served as Assistant Professor of Secondary Education at CSU Channel Islands from 2007 to 2011, and was Director of the Middle Level/High School Summer M.A.T. Program in the Graduate School of Education and Counseling at Lewis and Clark College from 2011 to 2015. Dr. Toshalis served in leadership roles in the nonprofit sector at both Jobs for the Future and KnowledgeWorks where he led the Student-Centered Learning Research Collaborative (sclresearchcollab.org), the Students at the Center Distinguished Fellowship (https://bit.ly/3HnXpeK), and the REMIQS project (remiqs.org). He consults with districts, schools, foundations, and community leaders across the nation to help stakeholders design or reform learning environments to ensure adolescents from all backgrounds flourish. For further information, please visit EngagingResistance.com.
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