Chris Mercogliano

Chris Mercogliano is an educator, author, and longtime teacher at the Albany Free School in Albany, New York, where he served as director from 1985 until 2007. He later focused on writing and speaking about progressive education, child-rearing, and noncontrolling approaches to learning.

His books include Teaching the Restless: One School’s Remarkable No-Ritalin Approach to Helping Children Learn and Succeed (2004), How to Grow a School, Making It Up As We Go Along: The Story of the Albany Free School, and In Defense of Childhood: Protecting Kids’ Inner Wildness (2007).