Robert Weintraub
Senior Lecturer (Retired)
Dr. Robert J. Weintraub is a senior lecturer (retired) in the Educational Leadership & Policy Studies Program at BU Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. He teaches courses in education leadership, advises master’s and doctoral students, and is developing and leading several projects.
Dr. Weintraub served for 19 years as headmaster of Brookline High School. During his tenure, working with alumni/alumnae, Brookline parents and citizens, and the Brookline School Committee, he founded the BHS 21st Century Fund, an education foundation to support innovation and change at the school. In addition, Weintraub taught a ninth-grade English class. He was also the founding principal of the K–8 City Magnet “Micro-Society” School in Lowell, Massachusetts. The school was designed as part of Lowell’s “controlled choice” desegregation plan and was named one of the top 50 elementary schools in the nation in 1988.
Previously, Dr. Weintraub has served as professor of practice in Education Leadership at Teachers College, Columbia University, teaching and advising master’s and doctoral students who aspire to serve as school principals and urban superintendents. For 17 years, he was an adjunct instructor at Boston University.
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Education
EdD, Administration, Planning & Policy, Boston University
CAGS, Pupil Personnel Services Administration, Northeastern University
MAT, Montclair State University
BA, English and Journalism, Lehigh University
Courses
WED AP720: Performance-Based Instructional Leadership
WED AP750: Supervision and Evaluation
Selected Publications
“Why Arne Duncan’s PISA Comments Miss the Mark,” (with my son, David Weintraub), Education Week, online January 6, 2014, in print January 8, 2014.
“Our Nation Needs a Civics Lesson,” The Brookline TAB, November, 2012.
“15 Lessons on School Leadership,” April, 2012 Phi Delta Kappan Magazine.
“Beyond Special Education: A New Vision of Academic Support,” with Julie Joyal.
Mowschenson, in Phi Delta Kappan Magazine, June 2009.
“News and Views,” Brookline, Mass., 1992 – 2011: Monthly articles in the Brookline High School community newsletter.
“Magical Realism,” in The Collected Works, The Writer’s Eye, a publication of The National Endowment for the Humanities, 1990.
“Development and Practice of Democracy in a K-8 School,” in Moral, Character, and Civic Education in the Elementary School, Jacques Benninga, Editor, Teachers College Press, 1990.
“City Magnet School, Lowell,” school of choice, featured in Equity and Choice Magazine, Boston University, May, 1986.
“A School Where Everyone Shares Power,” Principal Magazine, January, 1985.
“Meaningful Participation and an Effective School: Students, Teachers, and Parents.
Run Their Own Micro-Society,” in Equity and Choice Magazine, Boston University, 1984.