Matthew Kramer Email & Phone Number

As the CEO of The Wildflower Foundation, Matt Kramer supports a fast-growing network of one-room, teacher-led, community-embedded Montessori schools. Wildflower schools can serve children as young as 12 weeks old up through high school, with most schools serving a 3-year age band. The Wildflower Foundation supports the social entrepreneurship of educators to create and operate their own micro-schools, helps them access public funding to serve intentionally diverse groups of students, and supports teacher observation to enable data-driven instruction in a child-centered prepared environment without the use of screens or tests to gather data. The Wildflower network uses non-hierarchical management practices based on the ideas found in Reinventing Organizations by Frederic Laloux.Matt is a Montessori alum, a Montessori parent, and previously chaired the board of a Montessori charter school in Minneapolis. Before joining The Wildflower Foundation, he spent a decade as President and then Co-CEO at Teach For America, where he helped recruit, train, and support thousands of teachers and leaders who work to expand educational opportunity and equity. He also has a background in management consulting, having previously worked as a partner at McKinsey & Company. He holds a B.A. in economics from Harvard University and lives in the Twin Cities area with his wife, two daughters, two dogs, and one bunny.

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