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Director, Leadership for Educational Change Program
Supervised Fieldwork Advisor, Course Instructor
Leadership for Educational Change Program
Academic Interests
Collaborative supervision
Middle schools
School change
Service learning
Small schools
Teacher leadership
Team building
Some of the Values that Shape My Work
Collaboration, democracy, and intense personalization are at the heart of all my work, whether it be in supervision, teaching, or simply trying to make this a better, more fulfilling world for all people. I dislike pretense, rigidity, formality, humorlessness, selfishness, and insensitivity. I want schools to be alive, humane, inviting, inclusive, funny, and deeply thoughtful places. I love everyone who contributes to making them that.
Work with Families, Children, Schools, and Communities
High school English teacher; director of public alternative high school; principal of independent middle and high schools; staff developer; designer of new, small schools.
Educational Background
- Ed.D., Teachers College, Columbia University
- Ed.M., Teachers College, Columbia University
- M.A., Teachers College, Columbia University
- B.A., Amherst College
Selected Publications
- Schmerler,G. (Ed). (2009). Teacher leaders: Transforming schools from the inside. Occasional Paper Series 23, New York: Bank Street College of Education.
Schmerler,G. (Ed). (2009). Introduction. Bank Street College Occasional Papers, 23, 3-8.
- aywid, M.A. & Schmerler, G. (2003). Not so easy going: The policy environments of small urban schools and schools-within-schools. Charleston, WV: ERIC Clearinghouse on Rural Education and Small Schools, Appalachia Educational Laboratory.
- Schmerler, G. (2002). Engaging the system. In W. Ayers, M. Klonsky & G. Lyon (Eds.), Simple justice: The small schools revolution and the fight for fairness in our schools. (pp. 180-187). New York: Teacher College Press.
- Schmerler, G. (2002). One man’s continuing war against decentralization: A long struggle for school autonomy. Phi Delta Kappan Journal, 83(5), 370-374.
Contact me:
(212) 875-4709
ace@bankstreet.edu
610 W 112Th St # 814
New York, NY 10025-1898
New York, NY 10025-1898