Michael has been a New York City-based educator for over two decades, beginning as an elementary school teacher and math coach in the Bronx and Harlem. He firmly believes that mathematics is a creative, social, sense-making endeavor and that all students and teachers are capable of doing sophisticated mathematics in a supportive community.

Currently an educational consultant for mathematics, content coaching and school leadership, Michael has consulted for the past ten years to schools across the five boroughs of New York City and the Tri-State area, bringing innovative solutions to schools’ most pressing problems. He has collaborated extensively with Antonia Cameron at ReimaginED Teaching and Lucy West at Metamorphosis Teaching Learning Communities, working at the forefront of teacher development using content-focused coaching and intensive content knowledge-development institutes.

Michael holds a B.A in German and Philosophy from the College of the Holy Cross, an M.A. in Childhood Education from NYU, and an MSEd in Leadership and Mathematics Education from Bank Street College. He has taught and mentored graduate students in that same Bank Street program, along with facilitating Bank Street’s Saturday Math seminars for several years.

Michael also holds a certificate in Horticultural Therapy from the Horticultural Therapy Institute at Colorado State University, and consults to individuals and organizations who seek to use the people-plant connection to nurture mind, body and soul.

At home in Connecticut, Michael tends his farmette and small greenhouse in between trips to hockey with his son and gymnastics with his daughter.