Kyle Hartung

Kyle Hartung is a Senior Advisor at All4Ed focused on supporting the design and scaling of programs and initiatives, stakeholder engagement, and organizational strategies to advance innovations at the intersection of policy and practice that center equity and agency in career-connected learning.  

Kyle’s career has spanned work and leadership in public K–12 systems, higher education, and non-profit settings, including currently serving on the Board of Directors of The Possible Zone. Prior to joining All4Ed he served as an Associate Vice President at Jobs for the Future (JFF) where he led and supported strategies, initiatives, and teams focused on federal, state, and regional leaders’ and organizations’ efforts to implement solutions that reimagine the ways in which people experience and move through education and workforce development systems. Kyle is a co-author of The Big Blur and a regular participant in the ongoing conversation about equity, education, and the future of work and learning in the media and at events around the country. Prior to joining JFF, Kyle worked as a researcher with Learning Innovations Laboratory (LILa) at Harvard’s Project Zero, and as a teacher and school leader with Envision Schools (in the SF Bay Area) and at Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom High School in the Bronx, NY, where he began his career in education in the late 1900’s.

Kyle’s skills and areas of expertise include career-connected learning, cross-sector partnerships, work-based learning, secondary and postsecondary alignment, communities of practice, adolescent and adult development, and systems leadership and change. Kyle has a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Theatre and Performance Studies) from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, a Master of Science (Teaching) from The New School, and Master and research Doctorate degrees from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.