Meet Glen

Glen Irvin has been in education for over 20 years and he currently works as an Instructional Technology Coach at Sauk Rapids-Rice High School and is an adjunct professor at the University of Minnesota. Glen was previously a Spanish teacher. Glen is well known by the Schoology community as a Gamification expert, Schoology Ambassador, and he was the 2016-2017 Schoology Educator of the Year. He is an avid gamer with a passion for gamification, playful learning and game-based learning. As a teacher his classroom was a gamified, quest-based, mastery learning environment where students were given the time and opportunity to succeed. Glen is the co-host of the OnEducation Podcast whose goal is to have honest conversations about teachers, teaching and everything in between.