Mark Boswell

29 Jan 2020

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Mark Boswell is a career educator who has worked in education for almost 20 years. He began his career in afterschool programs for underserved students in Atlanta, GA and throughout his career he has taught World History, helped to develop curriculum focused on weaving social emotional learning into all subjects, and co-founded a professional development opportunity for educators of color seeking administrative opportunities within independent schools (The BOLD Summit: Atlanta, GA).

Mark holds an MA in Private School Leadership from the Klingenstein Center at Teachers College, Columbia University and B.A. in Political Science and Economics from Emory University. He currently serves as the Assistant Head of Upper School at the Marin Country Day School in Corte Madera, CA.

About the Author

Joe Feldman has worked in education for over 20 years at the school, district, and federal levels of government, in district and charter school systems, and in the non-profit sector. He began his career as an English and U.S. History teacher in Atlanta Public Schools and was the founding principal of Thurgood Marshall Academy in Washington, D.C. which has the highest performing students of any open-enrollment public school in the city. He was the Director of K-12 Instruction in Union City, CA. There, he led the district's initiative to make its high school placement process more equitable, resulting in doubling the number of African-American and Latino students enrolled in and passing honors courses. He is now the CEO of Crescendo Education Group, which partners with schools and districts to improve the accuracy and fairness of their grading practices.