Karl Jaeger

Who is Karl Jaeger?

Karl Jaeger is an American educator, writer and artist. Karl graduated with a Bachelors Degree in Education from Ohio State University and a Masters Degree in Education from Harvard University.

Karl Jaeger is co-founder, Trustee and Chairman of Our Future Planet (OFP), Our Future Planet is a website and online community with a worldwide Citizenship. The mission of Our Future Planet is to provide an environment for people to create a better planet to live on and to share innovative approaches to enhance the quality, liveability and beauty of the Earth. Citizens can create profiles and add their own proposals on an Ideas Globe and join in discussions with other Citizens on WikiVisions.”. Other Trustees of Our Future Planet are Samantha Harvey, Jean Houston and James Gillis Lengel.

Karl has been the creator of several community design projects including the Cambridge Charter School system a student-centred secondary school which received approval from the Massachusetts Department of Education on 14 March 1996.

Karl is Founder and Executive Director of the International School of America established in 1958, recently renamed the International Honors Program. The International School of America organises 8 month multi-country study abroad programs for university students to maximise the educational benefits from international travel. Students stay with host families in six to nine destinations during an eight-month academic year learning about social, urban and rural organizations, value systems, family structure, sustainability, ecology, anthropology and educational systems. Karl has previously taught and led five travel programs around the globe for the International School of America.