Patrick Montesano

Vice President and Director
Center for School and Community Services

Education: M.A., Curriculum and Teaching, Teachers College, Columbia University.

Expertise: Education improvement and reform; middle-grades education; professional development for teachers; urban education; education for socio-economically disadvantaged students.

Recent Positions:
Co-Executive Director, School and Community Services, AED.
Projects Manager, New York Urban Coalition.

Selected Publications:
"The Urban Middle-Grade Reform Network: Building Central Office Leadership for Middle-Grades Reform," Middle Ground, National Middle Schools Association, vol. 1, no. 3, February 1998.

"Middle Grades Evaluation in an Era of Reform-Proceedings of a Seminar Series," Spring 1993 (Ed.), AED, 1993.

"Evaluation of Great Expectations" with others, AED, 1992, 1993, 1995.

Other: National Forum to Accelerate Middle-Grades Reform; Advisory Councils on New York City Middle School Initiative and New Visions for Public Schools-Middle-Grades Programs.