Dan Condon is an education activist and currently serves as the Associate Director of Professional Development at the
Eagle Rock School & Professional Development Center, a
Corporate Social Responsibility initiative of the American Honda Education Corporation, a nonprofit subsidiary of the American Honda Motor Company.
As the Founding Director of
Public Allies in Colorado (holding the same position Michelle Obama held in Chicago), he prepared a new generation of innovative educators.
He was selected as one of twenty young visionaries of 1996 by Who Cares Magazine, was named one of
forty under 40 by the Boulder County Business Report in 2010, received the inaugural
Coalition of Essential Schools ‘Commitment to Equity’ award and received the
2010Governor’s Commission on Community Service “Still Getting Things Done” award.
He serves as a faculty member with
Public Allies, Inc.’s Leadership Practice in collaboration with
DePaul University’s Asset-Based Community Development Institute. He is a faculty member for the National Truancy Intervention & Prevention Center through the
National Center for School Engagement. He serves as a
Leader with Opportunity Nation.Dan is a contributor to the Huffington Post and his writings have been published in NAIS’ Independent School Magazine Blog, NASSP’s Leadership Magazine, Snapshots: The Specialist Schools Trust Journal of Innovation in Education, Horace: Innovation in Education & Edutopia. He has authored several chapters including
A Schoolwide Model for Student Voice in Curriculum Development and Teacher Preparation & in the
NSSE Yearbook titled, Engaging Youth in Schools: Empirically-Based Models to Guide Future Innovations.
He is a Critical Friends Group Coach through the
School Reform Initiative. He also serves as a grant reviewer for the Department of Education and the Corporation for National & Community Service. In the Spring of 2014 he served as a mentor to the
first high school Start Up Weekend taking place in Little Rock, AR.
He served as the co-chair of the Philanthropy & Social Committee on the board of
Boulder’s 2140. He has volunteered for
eTown, The Boulder Stage of the
USA Pro Cycling Challenge,
Boulder B-Cycle &
Outdoor Mindset. His hero is his second grader Huxton and he currently enjoys being on the crossing guard team of
Hug & Go on Friday’s morning. He has dreams of one day winning the New Yorker’s
cartoon caption contest.
Select clients include Big Picture Learning, New Technology High School, The New Teacher Project, iLEAD Schools, I Have A Dream Foundation of Boulder County, Public Allies, E’Tude Group, The McCormick Foundation Democracy Schools Program, New Visions Charter Schools, New Earth Life, Puget Sound Consortium for School Innovation - School Foundry.
Here’s what people
say about Dan’s work.