Grant Wiggins, president of Authentic Education, has worked on some of the most influential reform initiatives in the country, including Vermont’s portfolio system and the Coalition of Essential Schools. He established a statewide consortium devoted to assessment reform and designed a performance-based and teacher- run portfolio assessment prototype for North Carolina and New Jersey. Wiggins is best known for being the coauthor, with Jay McTighe, of the award-winning and highly successful Understanding by Design books. He and Jay co-authored their follow-up to UbD with Schooling By Design, a process that takes the UbD philosophy and applies it to school and district improvement.

Many of Grant’s materials can be found on his web site, http://www.authenticeducation.org/. Grant will be speaking as part of the 2009/10 NHASCD Conference Series on January 15, 2010 at the Grappone Center in Concord, NH.