ASCD is honored to welcome Ben Shuldiner as president and Lorraine Ringrose as vice president of ASCD's Board of Directors. The Board elected Shuldiner and Ringrose during its April meeting at the ASCD Annual Conference and Exhibit Show in Atlanta, Georgia. Both leaders will take office on July 1, 2016, and serve a one-year term.
Ben Shuldiner is a distinguished lecturer of education leadership at Hunter College, City University of New York. He has worked in the field of education for more than 15 years as a teacher, principal, and professor. In 2015, he was appointed by Mayor Bill de Blasio to serve on the board of the New York City Department of Education, known as the Panel for Educational Policy.
Shuldiner founded Brooklyn's High School for Public Service (HSPS) in 2003, where he became the youngest high school principal in New York state history. Under his leadership, HSPS received numerous awards for its outstanding success. HSPS was named one of the top 50 high schools in New York City by the Daily News and received a bronze medal from U.S. News & World Report, placing it among the best schools in the country. In 2010, HSPS was recognized as the top Title I school in New York, the first time a high school had ever won this award. Shuldiner helped lead innovative projects at HSPS that gained national acclaim, from the creation of a one-acre organic farm to a schoolwide grading curriculum focused on mastery and proficiency.
Lorraine Ringrose is a retired principal from Patricia Heights Elementary School, a technological and inquiry-based learning school in Edmonton Public Schools, Alberta, Canada. During her career, she has served as a French immersion teacher, literacy support specialist, teacher–librarian, curriculum coordinator, and assistant principal and principal in the Edmonton Catholic and Edmonton Public School districts. She has conducted research in the areas of collaborative supervision and peer coaching and collaborated with a team of principals and schools to implement job-embedded professional development in technology and inquiry-based learning. Ringrose also served as a student-teacher facilitator for the University of Alberta.