# Jal Mehta Professor of Educational Leadership, Harvard Graduate School of Education ![Jal Mehta headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum12921/files/styles/hwp_4_5__480x600/public/2026-03/Jal%20Mehta.jpeg?itok=CLV4Eaaf) laptop\_windows [Read more on the HGSE website.](https://www.gse.harvard.edu/directory/faculty/jal-mehta) Jal Mehta is the Gregory R. Anrig Professor of Educational Leadership at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. A sociologist by training, his work focuses on how to remake the industrial-era school system into a modern learning organization that creates passion and purpose for both students and adults. He is the author, most recently, with Sarah Fine, of [*In Search of Deeper Learning: Inside the Effort to Remake the American High School*](https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674248250), which won the Grawemeyer Award for excellent public writing on education. Mehta is also a leading scholar on the need to professionalize education, explored most thoroughly in his 2013 book [*The Allure of Order*](https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-allure-of-order-9780199942060?cc=us&lang=en&#:~:text=In%20The%20Allure%20of%20Order,same%20idea%20for%20remaking%20schools.). Mehta is the faculty director of the [Deeper Learning Institute](https://deeperlearning.gse.harvard.edu/), which works with schools, districts, states and provinces across the United States and around the world to transform schools and remake systems in support of deep and powerful learning. He is also the proud recipient of the Morningstar Teaching Award and is the co-host of [*Free Range Humans*](https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/free-range-humans/id1571981852), a podcast about "making schools fit for human consumption." His latest book, [*A Chance to Solve Their Own Problems*](https://www.amazon.com/Chance-Solve-Their-Own-Problems/dp/0674290291/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0), will be released in August 2026. - ## Person Categories [Affiliated Harvard Faculty](/person-categories/affiliated-harvard-faculty)