Christiane Reilly is a lifelong educator. She was fortunate to start her professional experience as an elementary teacher in a unique Stillwater, MN public school that practiced interdisciplinary curriculum planning, multi-age grouping, personalized learning, learner choice, peer relationships, and learning enriched by the arts, nature, and peace education. Her professional career led her to teach in a teacher licensing program at Bemidji State University, provide instructional design and faculty development services at the Center for Teaching and Learning at Hamline University, and serve as director of an instructional design team at the University of Minnesota where she guided the design, development and review of online courses and programs to align with evidence-based practices. Her focus in all these endeavors has been guided by a learner-centered paradigm and the promise that the pedagogical design of learning holds to make learning more authentic and meaningful for learners.
In 2020, she launched reDesignED LLC, an education design consultancy dedicated to advancing evidence-based practices through design-based research. In 2024, she launched reDesignED, the non-profit, to invite scholars to bring their research to bear to solving real-world educational challenges through education design research.
Her current efforts focus on the design of transformative learning experiences and their outcomes. For research and scholarship, please see her curriculum vita.