My focus is on creating learning environments that cultivate the habits of entrepreneurs by engaging students in the work of the real world.  At Benerd, I serve as the program lead for our new Educational Entrepreneurship program which I helped design. I was the Founding Principal of the Patiño School of Entrepreneurship, a public high school in Fresno, California. The school was developed around the idea of rethinking what it school by building an interdisciplinary curriculum around student-led companies and connecting with the entrepreneurial and technology sectors of Fresno. Before that, I was also the Principal of Duncan Polytechnical High School where I led the redesign of career-oriented programs into a focused small learning community academy system.  Before I became a school administrator, I enjoyed teaching English and Social Studies at the middle school level. I also am the CEO of an educational innovation consulting firm, NewSchool Innovation Consulting.  

PHILOSOPHY
As a professor, I believe the journey is more important than the destination and I encourage my students to continually evaluate the learning process and their growth. I also believe the skills that are gained are more important than the letters you put after your name. For this reason, I strive to make learning applicable through projects that allow students to consult with organizations and build their own solutions.  

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Entrepreneurship in Education
• Educational Innovation 
• Social Entrepreneurship
• Organizational Innovation & Adaptation
• Online & Blended Learning 
• Design Thinking, Lean Startup, Business Model Canvas, and other Innovation Frameworks in Education 
• Organizational Systems & Structures 
• Coding & Technology Education 
• Entrepreneurship Ecosystems

• EDUC 215 Creativity & Ideation
• EDUC 235 Design Thinking for Organizational Analysis
• EDUC 236 Prototyping for Organizational Improvement
• EDUC 279 Innovation in Education
• EDUC 287 Educational & Social Entrepreneurship
• EDUC 295M Seminar: Instructional Design and Development
• EDUC 354 Applied Inquiry II
• EDUC 360 Trends, Issues, and Dynamics of Change
• EDUC 364 Educational Policy Making and Politics
• EDUC 366 Marketing & Public Relations in Education
• EDUC 377 Design Thinking & Lean Startup for Social Impact

Recent Publications:

• Taylor, B. (2018). Using a startup model for school change.
  Leadership: Association of California School Administrators, 47(5), 36-40.      
• Taylor, B. & McNair, D. (2018) Virtual school startups: Founder processes in American  k-12 public virtual schools.
  International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 19 (1), 312-326. 
• Taylor, B. (2018). Entrepreneurial Spirit: Middle School Curricula. Fresno, CA:
  Entrepreneur Pathways, Inc. 

Recent Presentations:

• IncubatorEdu National Summit, 2018
  Keynote: Building a Building a Robust Community Partner Ecosystem 
• Educating for Careers California Conference, 2018
  Building a Robust Community Partner Ecosystem 
• Americorps Spring Conference, 2018
  Designing your Life for Social Impact 
• Presentation to the São Paulo Prefectural, Brazil, 2018
  Entrepreneurship in Education 
• City Year Sacramento: Service to Career Mid-Year Summit, 2018
  Building Young Entrepreneurs- and Why It Matters 
• Discovering Pacific Showcase, 2017
  Redesigning Education 
• Better Together- California Teachers Summit- University of the Pacific, 2017
  Educational Entrepreneurship 
• Project Management Institute Region 7 Leadership Summit, 2017
  Keynote: Inspiring the Next Generation Entrepreneurs in the Central Valley 
• Harris Lecture Series- University of the Pacific, 2017
  Rethinking Education