Sara Suchman Email & Phone Number

United States

The National Center for Montessori in the Public Sector (NCMPS) transforms lives by cultivating equitable, accessible, sustainable, and humanizing education through Montessori. NCMPS convenes and networks the public Montessori ecosystem and supports strong, equitable, and sustainable public Montessori schools and programs through tools, training, and technical assistance.

Continuing work launched in July 2012 as a post-doctoral fellow through the Harvard Initiative in Learning and Teaching (HILT). Creating Learning Bundles (technology-enhanced lessons that examine important and enduring dilemmas across the disciplines); working to implement their use across the University; and supporting professors and other educators in successfully teaching with Learning Bundles in their classrooms or other learning forums. The Learning Bundles project affords dual goals: 1)to increase students' understanding of multiple perspectives and build skills to manage them and move forward 2) to build the knowledge base on the challenges and opportunities of technology for improving face-to-face and distance teaching and learning.

Launching an intensive curriculum design project as part of a $40M competitively-funded grant for catalyzing pedagogical innovation in higher education. Creating and evaluating technology-enhanced lessons (enriched lessons, flipped classroom and fully online) that examine important and enduring dilemmas across the disciplines. The project affords dual goals: 1)to increase students' understanding of multiple perspectives and build skills to manage them and move forward 2) to build the knowledge base on the challenges and opportunities of technology for improving face-to-face and distance teaching and learning.

Conducted a strategic review of the research, funding and programming to optimally position new K – 16 Student Persistence Initiative. Identified gaps and needs in the field for potential strategic funding.

Cambridge, Ma

Taught courses and sections on leadership, instruction and school reform. Supervised student-teachers in Boston Public Schools.

Cambridge, Ma

New Haven, Ct

San Mateo, Ca

Doctor Of Education (Ed.D.), Education Policy, Leadership And Instructional Practice

Mba

Mat, Teaching English As A Second Or Foreign Language/Esl Language Instructor

Ba, Psychology

Activities and Societies: Phi Delta Kappa; Women's Rugby Football Club, President; Junior Advisor

Certificate In Nonprofit Management And Leadership