Sam M. Intrator

Sam M. Intrator is a professor of education and child study at Smith College, where he holds the Elizabeth A. Woodson 1922 Professorship and has chaired the Education and Child Study Program. He joined Smith in 1999 after more than a decade as a public school teacher and administrator in Brooklyn, Vermont, and California, and he has founded major outreach efforts including the Smith College Urban Education Initiative and Project Coach, an out-of-school youth development and sports coaching program serving children and teenagers in Springfield, Massachusetts.

Intrator is the principal of the Smith College Campus School and the author or editor of multiple books on teaching, education, and leadership, including Tuned In and Fired Up: How Teaching Can Inspire Real Learning in the Classroom (a finalist for the Grawemeyer Award in Education), Teaching with Fire, Stories of the Courage to Teach, Leading from Within: Poetry That Sustains the Courage to Lead (winner of the Nautilus Book Award Gold Medal for Poetry), and The Quest for Mastery: Positive Youth Development Through Out-of-School Programs. He co-edited Teaching with Heart: Poetry that Speaks to the Courage to Teach with Megan Scribner and has been recognized with honors such as a W.K. Kellogg National Leadership Fellowship, an Ella Baker Fellowship, and the Distinguished Teacher Award from the White House Commission on Presidential