CSSR Team

Joe DiMartino President
	Joe DiMartino is founder and president of the Center for Secondary School Redesign, Inc. (CSSR). Under his leadership CSSR has become a leading provider of ground breaking technical assistance to support both policy change and change leadership at the district and school level leading to a richer secondary school experience for all youth. Read Joe's full bio.
William R. Bryan, Ph.D. Vice President of Leadership & Organizational Development
	Bill Bryan is Vice President of Leadership and Organization Development for CSSR, and in charge of internal operations, to include staff professional development. Bill provides districts and schools with technical assistance to enhance system and leadership capacity in the implementation of Breaking Ranks II and Breaking Ranks in the Middle strategies. Read Bill's full bio.
Neslon Beaudoin School Change Coach
	Nelson Beaudoin is a school coach at CSSR and a recently retired high school principal. He is a 37-year educator who is a strong advocate for students. He has led two high schools through successful Comprehensive School Reform Demonstration grants. Student participation, citizenship and leadership were used as a leverage points in both schools to advance reform initiatives linked to Maine's high school restructuring movement. Read Nelson's full bio.
Dorothy Bowen School Change Coach
	Dorothy Bowen is currently a school change coach for CSSR. For the past thirty years, Dorothy has worked successfully in providing various public school systems, both locally and nationally, with a variety of techniques, designed to strengthen leadership presentation skills in addition to offering training, on how to create effective administrative staff and academic systemic change with measurable outcomes. Read Dorothy's full bio.
Ryan D. Champeau, Ph.D. School Change Coach
	Ryan Champeau is a School Change Coach with CSSR. As a member of the NASSP High School Task Force, in collaboration with a research team from the Education Alliance at Brown University, Dr. Champeau was a member of the team that framed the high school improvement publication, Breaking Ranks II, published in February, 2004 and distributed to every high school principal in the US through a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Read Ryan's full bio.
David Cirillo, Ph.D. School Change Coach
	Dave Cirillo is president and founder of Cirillo Consulting, of Boston, MA and serves as a School Change Coach for CSSR. Cirillo Consulting specializes in executive and management training and development, employee and customer satisfaction research, and change management. Dave has worked with numerous educational organizations in the areas of leadership, strategy and program evaluation. Read David's full bio.
Arnold Clayton, Ph.D. School Change Coach
	Arnold Clayton, Ph.D. is a school change coach with CSSR and comes to the center with 32 years experience working at Cambridge Rindge & Latin High School (CRLS) in Cambridge, MA with immigrant youth and their families as teacher and administrator. Arnie taught social studies and history courses in English, Portuguese, Spanish and Haitian Creole. Also, Arnie is the founding director of the CRLS International Student and Family Center. Read Arnie's full bio.
Billie Donegan School Change Coach
	Billie Donegan is a lead school change coach and professional development provider at CSSR. Billie was on the original Vision Team for South Grand Prairie High School’s whole-school reform dividing the school into five wall-to-wall career academies, and worked closely with the implementation plan and process for five years in various capacities. In 1999/2000, South Grand Prairie High School was selected as a New American High School. Read Billie's full bio.
Richard Dubuisson School Change Coach
	Richard Dubuisson is a school change coach with CSSR, and comes to the center with more than 13 years of experience in education, training and facilitation with K-16 students, teachers, administrators, corporate end users, and upper level management personnel. Richard currently serves as the Director of Academic Services and Site Leader at Year Up Providence, a national non-profit devoted to providing urban young adults 18-24. Read Richard's full bio.
Anna Fazekas School Change Coach
	Anna Fazekas is a school change coach at CSSR and a former Freshman Academy Coordinator. Anna created and led a successful Freshman Academy in which she designed and implemented a Freshman Seminar course. Under her leadership, the school’s Freshman On-Track Rate doubled in only two years. Anna’s additional teaching experiences are Environmental Science and Biology. Read Anna's full bio.
Tony Ferreira Senior School Change Coach
	Tony Ferreira has over two decades experience as a secondary school principal in southeastern Massachusetts. He served as principal of the Dorothy Beckwith Middle School for 16 years and for five years he was principal of the Douglas Junior Senior High School. Tony is known for working collaboratively with faculty to improve students higher level thinking kills, writing skills and mathematics skills using data as a basis for decisions to improvement. Read Tony's full bio.
Richard (Dick) Kraemer Senior School Change Coach
	Richard Kraemer is a school change coach with CSSR. Dick has been an educator for 41 years, during which time he has been in charge of three high schools, two in New York State and one in Vermont. He has been very successful in creating change for the better as a principal of two large and one small high school, as well as in his physics classroom before he entered administration. He was highly instrumental in making Fox Lane High School in Bedford, NY a Blue Ribbon High School of Excellence. Read Dick's full bio.
Meg Maccini
	Meg Maccini is a school change coach with CSSR and most recently served as the Head of School of The Boston Day and Evening Academy (BDEA) from July 1, 2001 through June 30, 2008. Prior to her appointment as Head of School of BDEA, she served as Associate Director of the Boston Evening Academy from 1997-2001. Since 1988, Ms. Maccini has been devoted to public education and has held various positions in rural, suburban and urban schools in New York and Massachusetts. Read Meg's full bio.
Jason Midwood Director of Quality Assurance
	Jason Midwood is Director of Quality Assurance & Director of Student Involvement Programs for CSSR. Jay is responsible for developing and promoting the voice and image of the constantly expanding national technical assistance center. He manages, directs, and organizes marketing and communication functions to include professional development institutes, national showcases, print materials, public information programs, and more. Read Jay's full bio.
Naomi Migliacci School Change Coach
	Naomi Migliacci is a school change coach with CSSR and a highly acclaimed international consultant, speaker, and writer. She has a background in Linguistics in Education from the University of Pennsylvania and is a lector at Yale University’s Center for Language Study and the School of Management. Read Naomi's full bio.
Joseph A. Militello School Change Coach
	Joe Militello is a School Change Coach with CSSR. Joe has been an extremely active member of the National Association of Secondary School Principals, an organization representing over 30,000 middle level and high school principals and assistants. As a board member and eventual president of the Association, he worked diligently to support secondary school reform on a national level. Read Joe's full bio.
Larry Myatt, Ph.D. Director for Performance-Based Assessment Best Practices
	Larry Myatt is the Director for Performance-Based Assessment Best Practices for CSSR and has been deeply engaged in education reform, leadership development and school redesign for over thirty years. Dr. Myatt was the Founder of Fenway High School in Boston, a pioneer in the small schools movement, and was its Headmaster for twenty years before accepting an assignment to advise Boston's High School Renewal Initiative. He was a key member of the High School Renewal Team and the HSR-Parthenon Group Off-Track Study. Read Larry's full bio.
Michael Nast School Change Coach
	Mike Nast is a school change coach with CSSR. Michael previously served as superintendent in Stamford, CT, an urban district with 17,000 students, for six and a half years. Prior to that, he served as an assistant superintendent for curriculum and professional development. In addition, Michael was a high school principal for 17 years of two large urban high schools. Read Mike's full bio.
Keith Pfeifer School Change Coach
	Keith Pfeifer is a school change coach and professional development provider at CSSR. Keith has over 27 years of experience in secondary education and has been involved in establishing advisory/advisee programs in multiple high schools. Keith has focused as a school superintendent on standards based education, authentic and alternative assessment, and developing secondary curriculum to prepare students for a global world. Read Keith's full bio.
Bob Rossi School Change Coach
	Bob Rossi is a school change coach with CSSR. He has been in education his entire career as a teacher, counselor, and school administrator at the middle and secondary level. Bob had the opportunity to implement many of the Breaking Ranks ll initiatives while building a high school from 300 students to over 1700. His school-wide advisory program has gained many local accolades, as well as state and national attention. Read Bob's full bio.
Gregory Sinner, Ph.D. School Change Coach
	Greg is a scientist, teacher of science, secondary school principal and learning & schooling redesign specialist. He served most recently as a School Redesign Specialist at the Education Alliance @ Brown University; Principal and Preceptor, Francis W. Parker Charter Essential School, Devens, MA; Principal and Director for Student Inquiry and Research, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, Aurora, IL; and more. Read Greg's full bio.
Keisha Stephenson Taylor, Ed.D. School Change Coach
	Keisha Stephenson Taylor is a school change coach at CSSR and a former curriculum supervisor in the area of language arts and professional development for the last two years. Her teaching experience was in the English content area where she served as a teacher and team facilitator on a 9th grade small learning community team. In addition, she also served as a Coalition of Essential Schools whole school reform facilitator for nearly two years. Read Keisha's full bio.
Jan Struebing School Change Coach
	Jan Struebing is a school change coach with CSSR, and a nationally known presenter and educator in the areas of Counseling and Career & Technical Education. She has recently retired after serving as a school counselor for 23 years and a Director of Career & Technical Education in her school system for 12 years. She was chosen the Outstanding School Counselor Administrator for Arkansas in 2002. Read Jan's full bio.
Cally Robyn Wolk Director of Media Services
	Cally Robyn Wolk is Director of Media Services at CSSR. She uses a variety of media tools to produce an array of products for CSSR. After eight years as the Director of Public Engagement for the Big Picture Company in Providence, Rhode Island, Cally started MediaPalette.com in 2003. Since then, she has done work for numerous organizations in New England and across the country. Read Cally's full bio.