Tony Streit

Managing Project Director Director, Chicago Office @edc.org

Chicago, IL, US

Tony Streit manages a portfolio of projects on media education, technology, and informal STEM learning to help educators harness 21st-century tools and to promote hands-on, student-centered learning that engages, motivates, and inspires. Streit\'s projects encompass a broad array of research, promising practices, and curricular strategies on community-based, contextual learning intended to build critical thinking, creativity, content knowledge, and other skills that are essential to college and career success. Streit and his team provide professional development, program materials, research and evaluation, and technical assistance to organizations and educators in both formal and nonformal settings. Streit\'s team specializes in providing direct consultation and assistance to the philanthropic community, tailoring services to meet the needs of both corporate and private funders. Streit lead program management of the Adobe Youth Voices initiative, a global professional development effort for both in-school and afterschool educators in youth media making, and The Robert R. McCormick Foundation\'s Why News Matters, a three-year pilot initiative to advance news literacy across Chicago. Currently he is the Principal Investigator on the National Center for Afterschool and Summer Enrichment (NCASE) for the Administration for Children and Families.

University of Notre Dame

Bachelor of Arts (BA), Communications & Economics

Columbia College Chicago

Graduate Coursework, Documentary Filmmaking