Unpacking the Innovation Core: Designing and Aligning Instructional Systems for AI Symmetry

Daniel Gohl joined HP Inc. in September 2022 and currently serves as Chief Technology and Strategy Officer for Education. He previously served as Senior Advisor to the Bob Moses Research Center for Math Literacy Through Public Education at Florida International University. As a learner and educator, he has focused on modernizing educational environments and practice by integrating digital tools, ensuring universal early literacy and mathematical fluency, prioritizing student voice and agency in experiential learning, integrating emerging technologies to promote learning, embedding data analytics in student and educator practice, and fostering engaging and healthy learning environments. He served as the Chief Academic Officer for both Broward County Public Schools and Houston ISD, in educational leadership positions in Florida, Texas, New Jersey, and the District of Columbia. He has successfully contributed to a variety of national and international collaborations in curriculum design, student assessment, and educational technology.

Innovative and successful projects he has led span a wide variety of educational domains. A prominent example is the design and launch of McKinley Technology High School, a citywide district public high school focused on integrating emerging technologies with liberal arts preparation in the District of Columbia Public Schools. Prior to that he led the combination of two high-achieving selective high schools in Austin ISD to address issues of access, support, and equity with neighborhood schools. While in Newark Public Schools, his work included school redesign and creation after procuring more than $25 Million in new grant funding and the formation of the Newark Schools Research Collaborative with higher education and philanthropic partners.

In the Houston ISD he designed and implemented Literacy By Three, an integrated approach to pre-kindergarten learning, early literacy, and English language acquisition, and PowerUp Hub, an open-standards, interoperability framework for instructional materials, educational records and student/teacher user experience. In Broward County Public Schools, he has overseen the development of districtwide K-12 programs in debate and computer science education, developed the Reimagining Middle Grades initiative with funding from the Community Foundation of Broward, restructured the delivery of special education services, and embedded data analysis and visualization to better serve student development and achievement. In response to the horrific school shooting tragedy at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018, he led the establishment and development partnership with the Center for Mind-Body Medicine into the Broward community Recently, new initiatives in competency based learning and comprehensive learner records have laid the foundation for improving teaching, learning, interventions, and student post-secondary success.

Dan was trained as physicist and began his career in education at the secondary and college level in the fields of physics, astronomy, mathematics, and computer science. He has collaborated with domestic and international communities, including work in Zimbabwe, Turkey, and The Gambia, to advance educational equity and excellence. By prioritizing efforts to address closing opportunity and achievement gaps, integrating academic and career preparation, and bridging STEM and humanities education, he has embed earning with community development.

He holds a master’s degree in science education from the University of Texas at Austin, a bachelor’s degree in physics from Vassar College and several educational certificates from the Texas Education Agency. Prior to entering K-12 education he studied physics at Dartmouth College, taught Cambridge A-Level computer science at Kutama College in Norton, Zimbabwe, taught physics & astronomy at Austin Community College, and did research at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory.

Dan was raised in the Mid-Hudson Valley region of New York and currently lives in Fort Lauderdale, Florida with his wife and three children.