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Linda Nathan
Co-Headmaster
Linda Nathan is the founding headmaster of the Boston Arts Academy, the city's first and only public high school for the visual and performing arts. Under her leadership, the school has won state, national, and international recognition, including a Massachusetts Compass Award, a "Breaking Ranks" award from the National Association of Secondary School Principals, and a Mentor School award from the Coalition of Essential Schools. BAA sends well over 90 percent of its graduates-all residents of the city of Boston-to college.
Linda was instrumental in starting Boston's first performing-arts middle school, and was a driving force behind the creation of Fenway High School, recognized nationally for its innovative educational strategies and school-to-work programs. She is also a co-founder and board member of the Center for Collaborative Education in Boston, a nonprofit education reform organization dedicated to creating more equitable and democratic schools. She was named 1990 Teacher of the Year by Channel 5 "Chronicle" in Boston, and from 1995 to 1998 she served on the National Academy of Science's Commission for the Science of Learning. In 2003, Linda received the Nadia Boulanger Educator's Award from the Longy School of Music for her work in arts education; in 2006 she received the first Fidelity Inspire the Future Award given to community leaders
who inspire the next generation of artists and arts advocates. She was recently named a Barr Foundation Fellow, Class of 2007.
Linda's articles on school reform and arts education have appeared in Phi Delta Kappan, Educational Leadership, Horace, and other publications. Fluent in Spanish, she has worked on issues of school reform in Puerto Rico, Brazil, Argentina and Colombia. In March 2006, she presented to the first UNESCO World Conference on Arts Education in Lisbon, Portugal. She is a lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education where she teaches a course titled "Building Democratic Schools." She is also currently writing a book about urban education and the arts.
Linda Nathan earned a bachelor's degree at the University of California, Berkeley, a master's degree in education administration at Antioch University, a master's of performing arts at Emerson College, and her doctorate in education at Harvard University.
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