Dan Caton
Executive Vice President
McGraw-Hill School Education
Moderator & Panelist, General Session: Transformation in Action−Keeping Current on Common Core
Tuesday, June 7
2:30 - 4:00 pm
Panelist: Eavesdropping on the Experts
Tuesday, June 7
4:00 - 5:00 pm
Dan Caton is Executive Vice President of McGraw-Hill School Education, where he leads the program development and product marketing activities for all PreK-12 educational programs and services. Dan previously served as President of McGraw-Hill Learning Group, the McGraw-Hill publisher of special needs and supplemental print and technology instructional materials.
Dan began his career as a middle school teacher in southern California. He moved to educational publishing, where he oversaw the creation of educational programs in nearly all areas of elementary and secondary publishing. Beginning in 1986, Dan also supervised the development of electronic education, beginning with stand-alone disc-based software, early CD-ROM development, and later some of the first educational web pages. Dan then served as Vice President, Product Development for Computer Curriculum Corporation in Sunnyvale, California.
Prior to joining McGraw-Hill in April of 2007, Dan served as President of Pearson Learning Group, the Pearson unit responsible for alternative basal, supplemental materials, and formative assessment.
Dan serves as the Past President of the Board of the Association of Educational Publishers. Dan holds a BA in Literature from Claremont McKenna College and an MA in Education from Claremont Graduate School, both located in Claremont, California.
