Chris Sperry has been co-directing Project Look Sharp with Cyndy Scheibe for the last 2 decades. He oversees PLS’ lesson development (with his brother Sox and our collaborators), and PLS’ professional development work with educators across the state, nation, and world. As a classroom teacher for over 40 years, Chris developed the methodology of Constructivist Media Decoding that is core to the PLS approach to media literacy integration. Chris currently directs Project Look Sharp’s Librarians as Leaders for Media Literacy (ML3) initiatives. Chris taught middle and high school social studies, English, and media studies for over 40 years at the Lehman Alternative Community School in Ithaca, New York. He is the author of numerous curriculum kits related to global studies and U.S. history and he is co-author (with Cyndy) of Teaching Students to Decode the World: Media Literacy Across the Curriculum (2022, ASCD). He has also delivered hundreds of media literacy workshops, classes, and keynotes for educators in the U.S., Turkey, Iran, India, Kenya, Panama, and Bhutan. Chris is the recipient of the National Council for the Social Studies 2008 Award for Global Understanding, and the 2005 National PTA and Cable Leaders in Learning Award for Media Literacy. Chris has a B.A. in planned studies from Ithaca College (focused on media literacy) and an Ed.M. in human development from Harvard University School of Education.