Author Profile: Chris Sperry

Chris has been co-directing Project Look Sharp with Cyndy Scheibe for the last 2 decades.  He oversees PLS’ lesson development and PLS’ professional development work with educators across the state, nation and world.  As a classroom teacher for over 40 years Chris developed the methodology of Constructivist Media Decoding that is core to the PLS approach to media literacy integration.  Chris currently directs Project Look Sharp’s Librarians as Leaders for Media Literacy (ML3) initiatives. Chris taught middle and high school social studies, English and media studies for over 40 years at the Lehman Alternative Community School in Ithaca, New York. He is the author of numerous curriculum kits related to global studies and U.S. history and he is co-author (with Cyndy) of Teaching Students to Decode the World: Media Literacy Across the Curriculum (2022, ASCD).  He has also delivered hundreds of media literacy workshops, classes, and keynotes for educators in the U.S., Turkey, Iran, India, Kenya, Panama and Bhutan.