Rob Taylor is CCR researcher, and is passionate about school reform and equipping students with creative thinking skills. Previously, he served in a half-administrator, half-teaching role at Austin Preparatory School. As curriculum coordinator, where he implemented an elective-based humanities curriculum, redesigned the faculty evaluation system, and led a Design Sprint to craft a new master schedule, advisory schedule, and disciplinary model. As a filmmaking teacher, he piloted mastery learning in his courses and founded a student media organization, and received the school’s award for outstanding teaching in 2017. He now is a member of Harvard Graduate School of Education’s School Leadership Program. He is the director and host of a candlepin bowling show for kids, called Candlepin New Generation, and recently crowdfunded his first board game One Hit Wonder.