Shelley Goldman is Professor at Stanford University’s GSE and by Courtesy, in the Engineering School in the Hasso-Plattner Institute for Design Research. Shelley is an educational anthropologist interested in the idea that learning takes place when students are actively engaged with each other, their teachers, and others in conversations, activities and content. She is very interested in the power of real-world contexts to drive learning, and researches how people learn in and out of school. She currently studies how families engage with mathematics in the course of everyday problem solving. Her quest to give people the tools they need to collaborate and accomplish learning has led her to study and design computer technologies. Goldman has been the faculty sponsor for the Stanford K-8 charter school.