From charter schools and networks to large districts, from early elementary to late secondary, and from public to private, the context matters not. Our varied experience, as well as our approach to the highly individualized needs of your school or student, will quickly identify and address the seemingly intractable barriers to student learning.

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As a founding teacher and dean at half a dozen schools and districts, Matthew is well-versed in supporting all stakeholders in and around traditionally underserved communities. He has been lucky enough to work with passionate and experienced teachers and staff members, students, families, and community providers the country over.

Matthew’s first formal teaching experience came at Middlebury College, where he pursued classes in developmental psychology and early childhood education. While attaining his undergrad, he served as an associate teacher in three different elementary classrooms in rural Vermont.

Following graduation, he worked for 5 years teaching history, literacy, and comprehension in middle and high schools in New Orleans. In one Recovery District School, he created and lead a school-based intervention team, focusing on middle school academics, remediation, and operations, a model that the Louisiana Recovery School District replicated and implemented at several other school sites.

After his work in the RSD, he taught Social Studies as a founding member of New Orleans College Preparatory Academies. Then, after stepping back from the classroom for a year, he designed an intervention program at a separate high-performing charter school, building a remediation program based upon a two-pronged foundation of literacy and restorative justice.

Later, he served as a founding history teacher and cohort leader within Boston Public Schools, at UP Academy Boston. In 2012, as Dean of Students, he helped design and implement the programming that ultimately turned the school into Massachusetts’ highest performing turnaround district charter school.

Since 2014, he has worked on a national scale to increase teacher and leader capacity, with the end goal of ensuring student transfer, ownership, and gains.