​Gopal Krishnamurthy (PhD), has served internationally (US, UK, and India) for many years in schools in teaching, learning, curriculum development and leadership, including as school director at a non-profit, international residential high school in the UK with a diverse population of students, educators, and staff from over 20 different countries. He has a natural and irrepressible tendency, whether in teaching or leadership, to learn and work with students and faculty in all aspects of school life. He enjoys a teaching-learning repertoire that includes environmental and education studies, physics, geography, mathematics, philosophy, theater, folk dance, Carnatic music, sports, residential care and duties, academic advising, and mentoring students on their educational projects and portfolios.​

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Gopal Krishnamurthy, serves as Founding Director, Transformative Education Center, MEd Concentration & Certificate, Recent Chair, Education Dept., and Core Faculty for Master’s & Doctoral Programs at Antioch University.

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​Gopal is recognized for his leadership in the Education Working for Democracy Conference Series. He brings a keen interest in school-university partnerships and in making teacher teaching and learning and the engagements of faculty, students, colleagues, and broader communities itself the subject of inquiry, research, and writing.

 

Gopal is also Chair, Board of Directors, Critical Explorers, alongside Harvard teacher educator Prof. Eleanor Duckworth and designer and instructor of Teaching and Learning a version of Duckworth's groundbreaking Harvard course of three decades (taught by Gopal with her permission).

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Gopal is also Chair, Board of Directors, The Stringer Foundation (Anjan Sundaram).

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Gopal Krishnamurthy is named alongside Sylvia-Ashton Warner, Eleanor Duckworth, Noam Chomsky, and others in “elaborating liberationist views of education” (p. 20) Ayers. R & W (2011). Teaching the Taboo: Courage and imagination in the classroom. 2nd Edition, NY: Teachers College Press, Columbia University. He was nominated twice for a university-wide Outstanding Teaching award, UCSB, USA.​​​

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Gopal uses theatrical improvisation, interaction, and pacing for thinking, collaborating, and figuring things out {E.g. improvisational presentation videos: Beyond Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Some provocations on teaching,  Some levity in troubling times, Think-aloud visual map}. Regular hiking and singing keeps him happy.