CAL CROW, Ph.D.,


Cal Crow is a co-founder and Program Director at the Center for Learning Connections, one of the nation’s first organizations to link education and training to the changing economy and workplace. He has a long and varied background as an educator, trainer, counselor and consultant.

Dr. Crow has taught at the K-12, community college and graduate school levels, has been a counselor in private practice, and has worked with businesses, government agencies and non-profit organizations throughout the United States and Canada.

He has contracted with numerous state and federal agencies and was one of three writers selected to revise the framework for the National Career Development Guidelines, a federally funded project of America’s Career Resource Network.

Dr. Crow was the major curriculum developer and trainer for Washington State’s WorkFirst interagency staff development project, and co-authored the revised Job Hunter Workshop curriculum for the Washington State One-Stop System. During the spring of 2004, he designed and piloted a curriculum currently being used to train employment specialists who work with ex-offenders. He was also the lead author for a training guide to assist Going Home educators who work with incarcerated individuals preparing to return to the community.

At the request of the Washington State Secretary of State’s office, Dr. Crow developed a variety of activities that teachers can integrate into their curriculum, encouraging students to become knowledgeable and active voters when they reach adulthood.

He has designed and managed projects in economically distressed communities, in corrections facilities, in school districts, in mental health centers, and for a variety of welfare and workforce development agencies. He is currently working with educators, non-profit agencies, and incarcerated individuals in New York State on a project to reduce offender recidivism rates.

Dr. Crow holds a Ph. D. from Arizona State University and has consulted, conducted training and made presentations in forty-three states and territories, Jamaica and Canada on a variety of topics.

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