The Educator-in-Residence at Hartnell College is an annual appointment that brings a scholar of note in any field to campus to engage the community in thought-provoking explorations of ideas, cultures, practices, or thinking, and who will have a broad impact by providing a unifying, energizing set of shared experiences for students, staff, and the community.
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Rushton Hurley
Rushton Hurley is an educator who believes this is a great time to teach. In his work, he has taught Japanese language at the high school and college levels, been principal of an online school, directed a professional development program, and succeeded as a social benefit entrepreneur. He loves creativity, collaborative innovation, and laughing at himself.
Rushton founded and is executive director of the educational nonprofit Next Vista for Learning, which houses a free library of over fifteen hundred short videos by and for teachers and students at http://NextVista.org. His graduate research at Stanford University included using speech recognition technology with beginning students of Japanese in computer-based role-playing scenarios for developing language skills. In the 1990's his work with teenagers at a high school in California led him to begin using internet and video technologies to make learning more active, helping him reach students who had struggled under more traditional approaches.
Rushton has trained teachers around the world, and regularly presents at national and international conferences. His fun and thoughtful talks center on the connection between engaging learning and useful, affordable technology, as well as professional perspectives of teachers.