Professional Accomplishments

2010-Present

Created a database of learning objectives in academic and non-academic curriculum areas, for use by learning managers to create and update students’ learning plans, manage their education, and track their progress.

2009-Present

Established and operated the Queens Paideia School as a prototype model of a Paideia Individualized Education (PIE) school, and created a five-year plan to demonstrate how aggregating 18 such schools can provide a novel path to K-12 school reform.

2005-2012

Developed a formal symbolic language for codifying behavioral contingencies (see related publications in the website’s Downloads section) generally, and specifically in the field of economics.

1992

Developed a theory-based technology for learning and practicing skilled performance in the performing arts and sports (see paper in this website’s Downloads section).

1989

Developed a method for placing valuations on new companies: In “Present Certainty Equivalents and Weighted Scenarios”, Journal of Business Venturing, University of Pennsylvania.

1986-Present

Served as Trustee of the Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies, an organization devoted to applying behavioral science to human affairs.