Meg Riordan is the Director of External Research with EL Education (former Expeditionary Learning), a K-12, non-profit educational organization. She taught middle school and high school English and taught ESL as a Peace Corps volunteer in Kazakhstan and to adult learners at DePaul University. She is a member of the first Deeper Learning Equity Fellows Cohort. Her research interests include teacher professional learning, organizational scaling, school reform, and students’ educational experiences. She is the co-author of Going to Scale with New School Designs: Reinventing High School (Teachers College, 2009) and numerous articles.