Alan Ticotsky

Alan Ticotsky has worked as an educator since 1975. He has been a strong advocate for hands-on, inquiry-based activities and created a repertoire of classroom techniques designed to promote a climate of collaboration and investigation.

Since the 1990s, Alan has employed systems thinking and system dynamics tools with students and in adult workshops. Systems thinking is a holistic approach, a process of considering how things change over time and the effects of feedback within a system. He is coauthor, with Rob Quaden, of The Shape of Change, a book that engages students in games and simulations that teach basic system dynamics concepts across the curriculum. Alan has also written four science activity and instructional books - Science Giants, a trilogy of science books, and Who Says You Can’t Teach Science.

He has worked and consulted for many organizations, including public schools, NASA, Boeing, New England League of Middle Schools, and the National Science Teachers Association.

Alan lives with his wife in Massachusetts near their grown children and grandchildren.