As Director of Consulting and Training Services at Global ESD(*), Peter draws on his experience as head, curriculum specialist, and science teacher at several independent K-8 schools in Vermont and New York. Recently Peter helped to shape the primary focus of a successful $3.1 MM grant to the John Templeton Foundation to foster and study community-based cultural evolution. His interests include participatory and design based research, contextual behavioral science, improvement science and learning that transfers. For 13 years Peter developed and taught school and summer youth programs reaching 7,000 P-16 students annually at Shelburne Farms, a National Historic Landmark and leader in education for sustainability.
(*) ESD = Education for Sustainable Development