Educator, improviser, design thinker, Dan Ryder serves as Director of Design and Innovation for Community Regional Charter School, a free, public, rural, project-based, proficiency-based, learner-customized charter school in central Maine. He's co-author of INTENTION: Critical Creativity in the Classroom, co-creator of CRITICAL CREATIVITY in ACTION, and writer of PANELS & PERSPECTIVES: Creating Comics in the EFL Classroom.