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My wife and I have lived in Weston for 10 years. Our daughter is in sixth grade. Like her, I attended public schools growing up. I ultimately earned graduate degrees in law and business, and then went into a career in marketing, sales and strategic planning. I now teach at Boston College. For the past two years I've been a member of the Weston PTO Board, and last fall I was elected a parent representative on the Middle School Council. 

I believe that every student in the Weston Public Schools can attain higher levels of academic achievement and social, emotional and mental well-being. The school committee plays a fundamental role in fostering the environment in which those higher levels can be attained. Leveraging my experience in business and education, I want to bring a broader range of management best practices to the committee's governance of our schools. 

• Optimize students’ time on core academic subjects
• Implement goals with metrics that demonstrate the impact of the district's actions on academic performance 
• Close the pandemic-induced gaps in student knowledge reflected in lower MCAS scores 
• Evaluate the value of offering tutoring for students who need it 
• Engage in aspirational benchmarking, gaining insights from the best schools in the U.S. 
• Re-implement the “Why Not Weston?” survey
• Prioritize improvements to students' mental health through social and emotional learning practices and positive behavior support plans 

• Confirm comparisons of per-pupil expenditures between Weston and neighboring districts, and identify the budget elements at wide variance and understand why 
• Develop a multi-year budget that reflects a smaller student body while still providing a quality education—and that aligns our budget more with neighboring districts   
• In the district’s annual goals, establish goals related to finance and operations 
• Build town residents' confidence in district's financial prudence by reviewing budgets with them directly

• Strengthen communication practices between schools, parents and town residents
• Systematically obtain feedback from parents and teachers to confirm what’s going well and identify opportunities for improvement and to better inform the committee's decision making
• Focus on teacher well-being to reduce risk of teacher burnout
• Articulate the characteristics of the "ideal parent experience” so we have common expectations of how the schools and parents should interact 
• Provide a broader range of opportunities for town residents to participate in student education