Sam Intrator

Sam Intrator serves as the Elizabeth A. Woodson 1922 Professor of Education and Child Study at Smith College, where he helped start the Education Initiative and the Mindich Educational Fellowship. His diverse educational experience spans high school English teaching, elementary school principalship, and out-of-school programs.

Intrator has authored and edited seven books examining education, teaching, and what young people learn in out-of-school programs. His work Tuned in and Fired Up:  How Teaching Can Inspire Real Learning in the Classroom  (Yale University Press) was a finalist for the Grawemeyer Award in Education, while Leading From Within: Poetry That Sustains the Courage to Lead  (Jossey-Bass) earned the Nautilus Book Award Gold Medal for Poetry.

His achievements include the Presidential Distinguished Teacher Award from the White House Commission on Presidential Scholars, a W.K. Kellogg National Leadership Fellowship, and an Ella Baker Fellowship. Currently, Intrator focuses on exploring innovative programs that utilize cross-age teaching and provide young people in high school and college the opportunity to teach.

Books

The Quest for Mastery: Positive Youth Development Through Out-of-School Programs. Harvard Education Press, Cambridge, MA, 2014.

Teaching With Heart: Poetry That Speaks to the Courage to Teach. John Wiley & Sons, San Francisco, CA, 2014.

Leading From Within: Poetry that Sustains the Courage to Lead. Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA, 2007.

Living the Questions: Essays Celebrating the Life and Work of Parker J. Palmer. Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA, 2005.

Tuned in and Fired Up: How Teaching Can Inspire Genuine Learning. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2003.

Teaching With Fire: Poems than Honor and Sustain a Teacher’s Heart. Edited with Megan Scribner. Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA, 2003.

Stories of the Courage to Teach: Honoring the Teachers’ Heart. Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA. (See reviews: New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, Education Week), 2002.