Real Leaders, Real Schools

Gerald C. Leader is Professor Emeritus at Boston University. He has researched and taught leadership for more than thirty years in educational, nonprofit, and private-sector organizations. After earning an undergraduate degree in engineering, he completed his MBA and doctorate at the Harvard Graduate School of Business. He has been on the graduate business faculties of Harvard University, Tulane University, Boston University, and Stanford University, where he also served on the faculty of the Graduate School of Education.   

Currently, Professor Leader directs and teaches in the Educator Leadership Institute, which he founded in 2002 to prepare educational leaders for public and charter schools in the metropolitan Boston area. The Institute, a program within the Educational Collaborative of Greater Boston, is a self-sustaining, nonprofit organization preparing teacher candidates through graduate coursework and an intensive internship for principal and director licensure.

Amy Stern has been on staff at the Edward Everett Elementary School in Boston from 2002 to the present. She served for four years as special assistant to Principal Kathleen Flannery (Chapter 5) and is currently the director of School Programs. Prior to working in the Boston Public Schools, Ms. Stern was a research assistant at Education Development Center, Inc., in Newton, Massachusetts. She earned her BA in psychology from Vassar College and her EdM. in School Leadership from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.