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The Writing Pathway Innovation Lab Team
Phil Weinberg, Senior Advisor and Managing Director
Pronouns: he/him
Phil was formerly the Deputy Chancellor for Teaching and Learning for the New York City Department of Education, the nation’s largest school system. A New York City educator for 35 years, he spent 27 years at the High School of Telecommunication Arts and Technology in Brooklyn as an English teacher, assistant principal, and the school's principal for 13 years. He holds degrees and certificates from Swarthmore College, Teachers College, Columbia University, and Hunter College. He is the recipient of the Sloan Public Service Award, awarded to New York City civil servants whose work goes above and beyond the call of duty. He lives in Brooklyn.
Sherry Lewkowicz, Senior Director
Pronouns: she/her
Sherry began her career teaching high school English at The Marble Hill School for International Studies in the Bronx, New York. She then served as Director of Certification and a senior faculty member at The Writing Revolution, where she developed the organization’s first certification program, created new courses and materials, and embedded the Writing Revolution’s strategies into Louisiana’s ELA Guidebooks curriculum. Most recently, Sherry was a Professional Learning Manager at Quill.org, where she provided customer success management and professional learning for premium partners, as well as led a research study of Quill’s newest literacy tool, Quill Reading for Evidence. She holds an M.A.T in the Teaching of English from Brown University, and lives with her son and daughter in New York City.
Steve Graham, Research Advisor
Steve Graham is the Regent and Warner Professor in the Division of Leadership and Innovation at Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, Arizona State University. For more than 30 years, he has studied how writing develops, how to teach it effectively, and how writing can be used to support reading and learning. In recent years, he has been involved in the development and testing of digital tools for supporting writing and reading through a series of grants from the Institute of Educational Sciences and the Office of Special Education Programs in the U.S. Department of Education. His research involves typically developing writers and students with special needs in both elementary and secondary schools, with much of that occurring in classrooms in urban schools.
The Writing Pathway Innovation Lab is part of Teaching Lab’s Innovation Studio. You can learn more about the Innovation Studio team here.