Jon Corippo has experience directing academic innovation and non-traditional approaches to education without textbooks. He has overseen programs that eliminated textbooks at Coarsegold Unified in 1999 and 2001, and a program at Minarets High School in 2008 that had no textbooks for English Language Arts and no homework. Corippo currently works at CUE, an educational non-profit serving over 20,000 educators in 2016-2017. He advocates applying critical thinking, creativity, communication and collaboration in the classroom and moving beyond introductory lessons through open-ended projects involving student discussion.