David Simpson
Northern Hills Middle School Principal
Grand Rapids, Michigan
I am the principal of Northern Hills Middle School, which is located in Grand Rapids, Michigan and part of Forest Hills Public Schools. My passion has been in empathy-based hacking towards Deeper Learning in schools using Project Based Learning! In addition, I have been working with schools to create cultures of thinking based on the work of Dr. Ron Ritchhart from Harvard’s Project Zero. I received my Ph.D. in K-12 Educational Administration from Michigan State University with a research focus on teacher learning in informal and formal settings.