Dan Ryder

Dan Ryder is a veteran classroom educator and Director of Design & Innovation at Community Regional Charter School, a free, public pre-K-12 school in rural central Maine. He formerly served as Co-Founder and Education Director of the SUCCESS & INNOVATION CENTER at MT BLUE CAMPUS, an empathy-fueled makerspace + mentoring space for all students and faculty. He also co-created INTENTION: Critical Creativity in the Classroom with his good friend, Amy Burvall, and PANELS & PERSPECTIVES: Creating Comics in the EFL Classroom, a 24-page comic book guide to creating comics with editor, Jacquie Gardy and artist Josh Alves.