Daniel Abrams
Clinical Associate Professor
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University
The Transforming Learning Accelerator is part of Stanford’s Long-Range Vision, which seeks to accelerate purposeful impact in the world.
The Transforming Learning Accelerator fosters a future where all learners thrive – no matter their cultural backgrounds, zip code, or abilities. The TLA advances new approaches to understanding learning and creates a sustainable model to turn discovery into scalable and equitable solutions. It provides centralized resources to co-create solutions and move ideas and innovations beyond Stanford.
Our goals
For 150 years, the education model has focused on the average student and standardization. The future we want to create can be different. We will pioneer and prove a new model for producing the opportunity and means for high quality learning. We will energize the synergy of science, design, and partnership to address the needs of specific learners and their institutions to enable lifelong learning. We want to…
Create a new center
Based on scholarship that bridges emerging discoveries in education, neuroscience, humanities, data science, psychology, law, and other fields.
Broker new partnerships
that ensure solutions are effective, equitable, more immediate, and widely used.
Inspire new curriculum
tools, and training that meet the needs of all learners.
Provide analyses
that support better learning opportunities for diverse learners
Expand the community
of problem-solvers in education by creating new opportunities for faculty across disciplines to bring their creativity and expertise to the challenges of actual learners.
Faculty Affiliates
Subini Annamma
Associate Professor
Stanford Graduate School of Education
Alfredo Artiles
Lee L. Jacks Professor of Education
Stanford Graduate School of Education
Susan Athey
Professor of Economics
Stanford Graduate School of Business
Jeremy Bailenson
Thomas More Storke Professor
Department of Communication, Stanford University
Ralph Banks
Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of Law
Stanford Law School
Jonathan Berger
Professor
Department of Music, Stanford University
Michael Bernstein
Associate Professor
Computer Science, Stanford University
Bryan Brown
Associate Professor
Stanford Graduate School of Education
Emma Brunskill
Associate Professor
Computer Science, Stanford University
Janet Carlson
Associate Professor
Stanford Graduate School of Education
Victor Carrión
John A. Turner Endowed Professor for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Lucile Packard Children's Hospital
Lisa Chamberlain
Professor
Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine
Chris Chafe
Duca Family Professor
Department of Music, Stanford University
Geoffrey Cohen
Professor
Stanford Graduate School of Education
Ben Domingue
Assistant Professor
Stanford Graduate School of Education
Gary Darmstadt
Professor
Department of Pediatrics, Stanford School of Medicine
Heidi Feldman
Ballinger-Swindells Endowed Professor
Stanford School of Medicine
Philip Fisher
Professor
Stanford Graduate School of Education
Sean Follmer
Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University
Karin Forssell
Senior Lecturer
Stanford Graduate School of Education
Nick Haber
Assistant Professor
Stanford Graduate School of Education
Michael Hines
Assistant Professor
Stanford Graduate School of Education
Bill Koski
Eric and Nancy Wright Professor of Clinical Education
Stanford Law School
Elizabeth Kozleski
Professor (Research)
Stanford Graduate School of Education
James Landay
Anand Rajaraman and Venky Harinarayan Professor
School of Engineering, Stanford University
Chris Lemons
Associate Professor
Stanford Graduate School of Education
Victor Lee
Associate Professor
Stanford Graduate School of Education
Ira Lit
Professor (Teaching)
Stanford Graduate School of Education
Ramón Martinez
Assistant Professor
Stanford Graduate School of Education
Bruce McCandliss
Professor
Stanford Graduate School of Education
Vinod Menon
Rachel L. and Walter F. Nichols, MD, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Stanford School of Medicine
Arden Morris
Professor of Surgery (General Surgery)
Department of Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine
Ryan Padrez
Clinical Assistant Instructor
Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine
Anthony Norcia
Professor
Department of Psychology, Stanford University
Pablo Paredes
Clinical Assistant Professor
Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Department, Stanford School of Medicine
Nilam Ram
Professor
School of Humanities and Sciences
Roy Pea
David Jacks Professor of Education & Learning Sciences
Stanford Graduate School of Education
Byron Reeves
Paul C. Edwards Professor of Communication
Department of Communication, Stanford University
Thomas Robinson
Irving Schulman, M.D. Endowed Professor in Child Health
Stanford School of Medicine
Farzana Saleem
Assistant Professor
Stanford Graduate School of Education
Dan Schwartz
I. James Quillen Dean and Nomellini & Olivier Professor of Educational Technology
Stanford Graduate School of Education
Kawin Setsompop
Associate Professor of Radiology
Stanford University School of Medicine
Rebecca Silverman
Associate Professor
Stanford Graduate School of Education
Guillermo Solano-Flores
Professor
Stanford Graduate School of Education
Sakti Srivastava
Professor
Surgery-Anatomy, Stanford School of Medicine
Mitchell Stevens
Professor
Stanford Graduate School of Education
Hari Subramonyam
Assistant Professor (Research)
Stanford Graduate School of Education
Anthony Wagner
Lucie Stern Professor
Department of Psychology, Stanford University
Dennis Wall
Associate Professor
School of Medicine
Jason Yeatman
Assistant Professor
Stanford Graduate School of Education, School of Medicine
Leadership and Administration
Kristen Pilner Blair
Director of Research, Digital Learning
Kristin Barklund
Program Coordinator
Geoffrey M. Cox
Director, Stanford Learning Partners
Olivia B. Crawford
Chief Operating Officer
Philip Fisher
Faculty Director, Early Childhood
Isabelle Hau
Executive Director
Elizabeth Kozleski
Faculty Co-Director, Learning Differences
Ira Lit
Faculty Co-Director, Learning Differences
Nereyda Salinas
Co-Director, Stanford Learning Partners
Dan Schwartz
I. James Quillen Dean and Nomellini & Olivier Professor of Educational Technology
Stanford Graduate School of Education