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The current chapter begins a decade ago. After pivoting from a senior role in big media companies, I was CEO of a small public media company with enough free time focus on what people learn, why we learn, how we learn, and how human beings make progress. This led to a role as Senior Scholar for The Positive Psychology Center at the University of Pennsylvania. I began to travel, first to Uganda, then to several dozen other countries to record video interviews with children and teenagers about their lives, their understanding of the world, and their plans for the future for a project called Kids on Earth.

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As I learned from hundreds of young people, the pandemic provided ample quiet time to write, think, and build new relationships via ZOOM. This led to a new role, Executive Director of The 21st Century Learning Project, a new lab at the University of Virginia's School of Education & Human Development. And that led to a new book to be published in 2025 by Harvard Education Press.

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There is more to the story, of course. Over a long career, I have created and produced hundreds of hours of television programming, including the popular Peabody and Emmy Award winning children's series, Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? A wide range of projects and collaborations has resulted in a thousand new jobs, nearly $250 million in funding, two dozen books, a newspaper column distributed by The New York Times, and more.

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Abundant curiosity always leads to new projects and ways to make life better for as many people as possible. This list includes a new book about self-care for diabetes, a desire to do something significant about climate change education, especially for young people and their teachers, and probably something about the care and feeding of the human body, mind and spirit. Inevitably, there will be new and surprising collaborators, and projects taking shape in ways that I could not possibly imagine.

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That's the fun, the amazing part of the journey. I never know what comes next, but I do my best to prepared when and if magic happens.