Adam is a consultant, coach, author, and leader with over twenty-five years’ experience in public education. He began his career as a middle school teacher in Oakland, California before working as a high school teacher in Boston Public Schools, where he served as lead teacher, designing curricula, spearheading a mentorship program, and facilitating schoolwide professional learning.  He was awarded the Sontag Prize in Urban Education and a fellowship at the Lynch Leadership Academy at Boston College. Adam served as Director of Instruction at the Henderson K-12 Inclusion School in Boston, designing systems and structures, coaching teams of teachers, and setting the vision for instructional excellence in an innovative school where students of all abilities are fully included in all classrooms. In recent years, Adam has been a consultant and leader in the nonprofit space, supporting systems change in schools and districts around the country through senior leadership roles at Engaging Schools and Teach For America. He has consulted with superintendents and cabinet-level district administrators, designed and executed summits for hundreds of participants, developed and facilitated districtwide programming for school leaders, teachers, and student support staff, and led teams of coaches and leaders to achieve outcomes for kids. He is a lecturer in public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, and he has taught at MIT and in prisons. As an author and thought leader, his writing has appeared in The New York Times, his storytelling has been televised on Stories from the Stage, and his commentaries have aired on NPR.