National Director of Partnerships, Big Picture Learning
Sonn Sam, Ed.D., has spent more than two decades with Big Picture Learning. He began as an advisor before serving as principal and Chief Innovation Officer at East Side High School and Big Picture Academy in Newark. Today, he leads national partnerships and helps schools and communities build more connected, student-centered learning.
Web Designer & Marketer
Masson Sam leads web design and marketing for The Education Pivot, shaping how the book’s ideas are presented online. He is a University of Michigan student and contributes to marketing and operations for MPowered Entrepreneurship, including its MTank pitch competition.
The Education Pivot grows from a shared body of work in student-centered learning, community relationships, and meaning-centered practice, not from a technology brief.
Elliot Washor co-founded Big Picture Learning and The Met Center in Providence, Rhode Island. For decades, that network has designed schools around advisories, internships, exhibitions, and authentic assessment rooted in each young person’s interests, connecting classrooms to communities so learning happens in and outside school.
bigpicture.orgPam Roy and Elliot Washor co-founded B-Unbound through Big Picture Learning to extend that mission beyond the school day, connecting young people with community-based adults who share their interests and help them build purpose, dignity, and belonging.
b-unbound.orgPam co-founded the Viktor Frankl Institute of America with Alexander Vesely-Frankl, Viktor Frankl’s grandson, advancing the idea that the search for meaning is essential to mental health and well-being. That philosophy shapes the book’s focus on meaning and mattering alongside AI.
viktorfranklamerica.comThe Metropolitan Regional Career and Technical Center in Providence is where Big Picture Learning’s student-centered approach took shape, connecting each student’s interests with advisories, internships, exhibitions, and learning in the wider community.
Learn about The MetPam’s essays extend the book’s inquiry into self-work, relationships, purpose, and the conditions that help young people build lives of meaning and mattering.
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