Peter Herzberg

Description

I have an extensive career as a K12 Educator in teaching, leadership, and partnership building, in independent, public, and charter schools. In addition to partnership work with nonprofits, I specialize in the innovation of high school programs, design and integration of 6-12 curriculum, and the building of more robust, interactive teaching cultures. His most significant work in schools at present is around student engagement and the role teachers play in reflecting on their own professional growth. I am well versed in  independent, pubic and charter school cultures and educational trends in general. Prior to becoming a consultant, I played a variety of roles for 35 years in 7 different schools: as classroom teacher  (unlike many school leaders, I have never lost contact with the classroom),  Department Head, Division Head, Founding Principal, and Associate Head.  I work actively on the board of a K through 8 school, just served as interim Education Director of the educational nonprofit Change for Kids, consult with the News Literacy Project and South BronxRising, a collective impact group, and works with several other nonprofits that support schools in arts, literacy,  wellness and career readiness training.  I also teache a composition and writing at LaGuardia Community College, part of the City University of NY system.
Peter’s larger goal is to find the best ways to catalyze partnerships among schools which do not typically share practice, and among schools and nonprofits, in order to share practices that go above and beyond the primary, entrenched demands of the Common Core or college bound testing. The key outcome is to create more engaged students. In the fertile but fragmented world of educational reform, consolidating these cross-sector partnerships and their gains is important if we are to have the really dynamic and purposeful schools we need. The existence of such schools and this consolidation of practice are prerequisites if we intend to thrive in a world that must rethink how to sustain resources and teachers, improve student engagement, and practice social justice for children of every class and background.