Digital technology has the potential to bring about revolutionary changes in teaching and learning. Specifically, providing schools with access to multimedia information and sophisticated analytic and expressive tools may finally make possible the widespread implementation of progressive pedagogy. While the focus of educational technologists has, to date, been on access, the real struggle is to provide teachers with the curriculum tools they need to make use of new technology in meaningful ways. Teachers Network's focus on the dissemination of classroom-proven curriculum innovations, by teachers, for teachers, is of fundamental importance to this educational revolution.

Mr. Luyen Chou
Senior Vice President
SchoolNet, Inc.

Luyen Chou is Senior Vice President at SchoolNet, Inc., the market leader in data-driven decision making systems for schools and school districts. He leads SchoolNet’s consumer and education portal initiatives. Prior to joining SchoolNet, Luyen was the Executive Director of the Center for Integrated Learning and Teaching, and the Associate Head of The School at Columbia University – an independent K-8 laboratory school on the campus of Columbia University in New York City. Luyen played an instrumental role in the design and launch of the new school in the fall of 2003.

Previously, Luyen was Founder, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Learn Technologies Interactive, Inc. (LearnTech), a New York-based company that develops innovative educational software tools and applications. LearnTech’s principle shareholders included Time Warner Inc. Carvajal S.A., and Georg von Holtzbrinck GmbH & Co. KG.

Prior to founding LearnTech, Luyen served as Director of Operations for the New Laboratory for Teaching and Learning at The Dalton School in Manhattan, and as Project Manager for the Dalton Technology Plan, a million-dollar-a-year grant to build the school of the future in the context of networked multimedia. Among other things, Luyen also taught philosophy, multimedia, and history to high school students at The Dalton School; developed an award-winning curriculum on New York City in the Civil War; developed The Dalton School’s first multicultural high school history curriculum unit on Africa; and served as a house advisor and advisor to the senior class.

Luyen graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. in Philosophy from Harvard College. He has written and lectured extensively on curriculum design, educational technology, and interactive design for publications and venues including American Programmer, ICTE, Columbia University, MIT, Stanford University, the U.S. Library of Congress, TED Conference, the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD).

In addition to his work at Columbia University, Luyen has consulted for schools and organizations around the world, including Columbia University’s Center for New Media Teaching and Learning, The Dalton School, Sacred Heart School, the Hudson Falls, New York school system, George Lucas Educational Foundation, The Walt Disney Company, ABC, Inc., ICL (Fujitsu, UK) Ltd., PBS, WNET, Oxford University, among others.

Luyen is involved in numerous additional non-profit initiatives: He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Teachers’ Network, a non-profit organization aimed at the development and delivery of innovative curriculum; a member of the Board of Directors of MOUSE, a non-profit organization dedicated to facilitating the integration of technology and learning in New York City’s public schools; a member of the Executive Committee and Board of Directors of The Black Rock Forest Consortium; team leader of a the Appleseed Foundation website taskforce, which redesigned the New York City Department of Education website (www.nycenet.edu) in 2003; and a member of the New York City Department of Education Human Resources Advisory Board.