Richard Halverson is a professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis in the UW–Madison School of Education. His research aims to bring the research methods and practices of the learning sciences to the world of educational leadership and interactive media. Rich is a co-director of the Comprehensive Assessment of Leadership for Learning (CALL) and leads the Wallace Foundation Equity-Centered Leadership (CALL/ECL) research project.
He is a former high school teacher and administrator, and earned an M.A. in Philosophy and a Ph.D. in the Learning Sciences from Northwestern University. He is co-author (with Allan Collins) of Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology: The Digital Revolution and Schooling in America and (with Carolyn Kelley) of Mapping Leadership: The Tasks that Matter for Improving Teaching and Learning in Schools.
As lead principal investigator of the overall project, Halverson leads and coordinates all activities related to the CALL-ECL project. He also co-leads Implementation studies A and C and the Exploratory study E.