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Louis M. Gomez is a social scientist dedicated to educational improvement. His research and design efforts are aimed at helping to support community formation in schools, and other organizations, so that they can collaboratively create new approaches to teaching, learning and assessment. He is Professor and MacArthur Chair in Digital Media and Learning in the School of Education and Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Gomez was the Inaugural Holder of the Helen S. Faison Chair in Urban Education at the University of Pittsburgh School of Education, and the Inaugural Holder of the Aon Chair in the Learning Sciences in the School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University. Among other honors and awards, he is a member of the National Academy of Education, a fellow, of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a fellow of the International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS), a Fellow of the International Society for Design and Development (ISDDE), and a member of the National Academy of Education, Sciences Panel on Citizen Science, and the the National Academies Committee on Science Literacy and Public Perception of Science. From 2008-2023, Gomez was a Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

Along with colleagues, Anthony Bryk, Paul LeMahieu and Alicia Grunow, worked to bring Networked-based Improvement Science to the field of Education. This work is aimed at helping the field take a new perspective on design, educational engineering, and development efforts that catalyze long-term, cooperative initiatives. The work gains much of its power because it is carried out in highly focused collaboratives that Gomez and colleagues call Networked Improvement Communities. He is the Co-Founder of the Improvement Leadership Education and Development (iLEAD)

Gomez has written or edited numerous books and monographs and has written more than 100 articles, chapters, and other publications on organizational learning, educational improvement, applied cognitive science, and human-computer interaction, and curriculum design. He was the inagural Associate Editor of AERA Open, and has been a co-editor ...

He has served on numerous boards including BSCS, the New Teacher Center, TERC, the HIVE Research Lab, Green Dots Public Schools, the MacArthur Foundation Teaching and Learning Planning Network,CAST: the Center for Applied Special Technology, the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, and Strategic Education Research Partnerships (SERP)

EDUCATION Gomez graduated from the State University of New York, Stony Brook with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology. He received the Ph.D. in Psychology from The University of California, Berkeley.

PUBLICATIONS

Allum, N., Besley, J., Gomez, L., & Brunton-Smith, I. (2018). Disparities in science literacy. Science, 360(6391), 861-862.

Bhimdiwala, A., Neri, R. C., & Gomez, L. M. (2021). Advancing the Design and Implementation of Artificial Intelligence in Education through Continuous Improvement. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 1-27.

Bouillion, L. & Gomez, L. (2001). Connecting school and community with science learning: Real world problems and school-community partnerships as contextual scaffolds. In Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 38(8), 878–898.

Bryk A. S. & Gomez L. M. (2008) Ruminations on Reinventing an R&D Capacity for Educational Improvement. In Hess, F. M. (Ed), The Future of Educational Entrepreneurship: Possibilities for School Reform. Cambridge: Harvard Education Press

Bryk, A.S.., Gomez, L.M., Grunow, A., and LeMahieu , P.G. (2015). Learning to improve: How American schools can get better at getting better. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press.

Diamond, J. B., & Gomez, L. M. (2023). Disrupting White Supremacy and Anti-Black Racism in Educational Organizations. Educational Researcher, 0013189X231161054.

Eddy-Spicer, D.H. & Gomez, L.M. (2022). Accomplishing meaningful equity. In L. Cohen-Vogel, W.R. Penuel, D.J. Peurach, & J.L. Russell (Eds.). The foundational handbook on improvement research in education. Rowman & Littlefield.

Gomez L. (January 2017) The Fierce Urgency of Now: A Reflection on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Call to Action and Educational Equity. https://www.carnegiefoundation.org/blog/the-fierce-urgency-of-now/

Gomez, L. M., Biag, M., & Imig, D. G. (2022). Improvement science: The social glue that help helpers help? In M. S. Suárez-Orozco & C. S. Suárez-Orozco (Eds.), Education: A global compact for a time of crisis.New York, NY: Columbia University Press.

Gomez, L. M., Biag, M., Imig, D. G., Hitz, R., Tozer, S. (2023). Improving America’s schools together: How district-university partnerships and continuous improvement can transform education. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

Gomez, K., Gomez, L., & Worsley, M. (2021). Interrogating the role of CSCL in diversity, equity, and inclusion. In A. Wise, U. Cress, C. Rosé, and J. Oshima (Eds). The Handbook of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning. p.103-119.

Gomez, L. & Suarez-Orozco, M. (Febuary 4, 2016). Learning from the genome of American Schooling. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/louis-gomez/learning-from-the-genome-of-american-schooling_b_9159776.html

Leger, M., Gomez, L.M, Obeso, O. (in press) Learning improvement science to lead: Conditions that Bridge Professional Development to Professional Action. Teachers College Record.

Pea, R. D., Gomez, L. M. (1992). Distributed multimedia learning environments: Why and how. Interactive Learning Environments, 2, 73-109.

Spillane, J.P., Reiser, B.J., Gomez, L.M. (2006). Policy Implementation and Cognition: The Role of Human, Social, & Distributed Cognition in Framing Policy Implementation In M.I. Honig. (Ed.). Confronting Complexity: Defining the Field of Education Policy Implementation. The State University of New York Press: Albany, NY.

REFERENCES

https://seis.ucla.edu/faculty/louis-gomez/ https://hep.gse.harvard.edu/author/louis-m-gomez/ https://naeducation.org/member/louis-gomez/ https://academictree.org/education/publications.php?pid=311446 https://www.amacad.org/person/louis-m-gomez https://www.edutopia.org/louis-gomez-project-based-learning https://www.news.pitt.edu/news/pitts-louis-m-gomez-selected-senior-partner-new-carnegie-foundation-advancement-teaching-progra https://clalliance.org/blog/improving-improvement-in-education-louis-gomez-keynote-speaker-for-dml2014/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImUfPPpPlo4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2CLAvX9YEA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RE__WcpsfSg https://www.news.pitt.edu/news/pitt-names-inaugural-holder-dr-helen-s-faison-chair-urban-education-and-first-director-its-cent https://nyuscholars.nyu.edu/en/publications/school-choice-and-competition-in-the-new-york-city-schools https://www.northwestern.edu/magazine/spring2006/cover/cover.html