Kurtis Hewson

Kurtis Hewson has been a teacher, vice-principal, and principal, as well as taught at the post-secondary level with the Faculty of Education at the University of Lethbridge and the University of Alberta. 

In addition to two finalist awards from Alberta Excellence in Teaching program and a recipient of the Alberta Edwin Parr award for excellence in his first year of teaching, Kurtis was one of three honorees for the international ASCD Outstanding Young Educator Award in 2010.

In 2015, Kurtis co-authored Envisioning a Collaborative Response Model and prior to that in 2013, co-founded Jigsaw Learning, focused on supporting districts, schools and even departments of education in the establishment and refinement of robust Collaborative Response frameworks. In 2022, he co-authored Collaborative Response: Three Foundational Components That Transform How We Respond to the Needs of Students, which has gone on to achieve bestseller status through Corwin publishing. Through his work with Jigsaw Learning, Kurtis interacts with thousands of educators annually throughout North America and beyond.