Sarah E. Fiarman, a former public school teacher and principal, is a lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where she teaches instructional leadership for elementary, middle, and high school principals.
Sarah E. Fiarman is a Lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where she teaches instructional leadership for elementary, middle school, and high school principals. She is a former public school teacher and principal. Across her work, she is committed to building powerful learning communities through developing teacher leadership, examining teaching and learning in a collaborative context, and surfacing and addressing unconscious racial biases. Her coursework, consulting, and writing focus on increasing educational equity for all children, particularly children of color and other historically underserved student groups.
While serving as a public school teacher, Sarah was a National Board Certified Teacher, Responsive Classroom Consulting Teacher, and facilitator with Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity. As a principal, she was awarded a Lynch Leadership Academy Fellowship, and in 2013, the Boston Globe rated her school the “#1 Dream School in Massachusetts.”
Sarah has consulted on improving instruction at the classroom, school, and district level. She is a coauthor of Instructional Rounds in Education: A Network Approach to Improving Teaching and Learning with Elizabeth A. City, Richard F. Elmore, and Lee Teitel. Sarah is also contributing author to Data Wise in Action: Stories of Schools Using Data to Improve Teaching and Learning, edited by Kathryn Parker Boudett and Jennifer Steele (Harvard Education Press, 2007), and Data Wise: A Step-by-Step Guide to Using Assessment Results to Improve Teaching and Learning, edited by Kathryn Parker Boudett, Elizabeth A. City, and Richard J. Murnane (Harvard Education Press, 2005). She received her EdD from Harvard Graduate School of Education in Administration, Planning, and Social Policy.
