Taking over as director of the Goodlad Institute for Educational Renewal, mathematics professor Dr. Allison Hintz knew she stood on big shoulders.
Her first order of business: return to the work of Dr. John Goodlad, the renowned educational researcher for whom the institute is named.
In doing so, Hintz came to more deeply appreciate — and take fresh inspiration from — his profound influence on the field of education.
“Through many large-scale research projects and influential books, Dr. Goodlad strengthened the democratic purposes of schooling, deepening the understandings of how schools work and how they could improve,” Hintz said. “He created centers for educational research, arguing that scholarship must be connected to real classrooms.”
She stepped into the Goodlad Institute directorship in August 2025, after 15 years as one of its community of scholars. She is only the institute’s third director since its 2008 founding, following in the footsteps of Drs. Carrie Tzou and Tom Bellamy.