2017 Arts Integration Conference for Educators Keynote Address

Sam Seidel

Sam Seidel is the Director of the Student Experience Lab at the Business Innovation Factory and author of Hip Hop Genius: Remixing High School Education (Rowman & Littlefield, 2011). Seidel speaks internationally about innovative solutions to challenges facing schools, community organizations, and prisons. He is a passionate and experienced leader in education transformation.

Seidel has taught in a variety of settings from first grade to community college. He has built and directed programs for young people affected by incarceration. As a consultant, Seidel worked with leading national education organizations, including the Black Alliance for Educational Options, Big Picture Learning, and Jobs for the Future, as well as a spectrum of other clients on a diverse set of projects, ranging from redesigning a statewide juvenile justice system to working with the Rockefeller family to repeal the Rockefeller Drug Laws. Seidel was the Director of Partnerships, Annual Reviews, and Student Leadership for the Association for High School Innovation, a national network of school developers and replicators funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Seidel graduated from Brown University with a degree in Education and a teaching certification. He was a Scholar-in-Residence at Columbia University’s Institute for Urban and Minority Education, and a Community Fellow at the Rhode Island School of Design. He is always learning.

Learn more about Sam Seidel and his work:

• Watch his short video about project-based learning. 
• Learn more about his book: Hip Hop Genius.
• Check out some of the amazing work that he does with the Business Innovation Factory
• Follow him on Twitter