Dr. Robert J. Weintraub is a senior lecturer (retired) in the Educational Leadership & Policy Studies Program at BU Wheelock College of Education\u00a0 & Human Development. He teaches courses in education leadership, advises master’s and doctoral students, and is developing and leading several projects.<\/p>\n
Dr. Weintraub served for 19 years as headmaster of Brookline High School. During his tenure, working with alumni\/alumnae, Brookline parents and citizens, and the Brookline School Committee, he founded the BHS 21st Century Fund, an education foundation to support innovation and change at the school. In addition, Weintraub taught a ninth-grade English class. He was also the founding principal of the K\u20138 City Magnet \u201cMicro-Society\u201d School in Lowell, Massachusetts. The school was designed as part of Lowell\u2019s \u201ccontrolled choice\u201d desegregation plan and was named one of the top 50 elementary schools in the nation in 1988.<\/p>\n
Previously, Dr. Weintraub has served as professor of practice in Education Leadership at Teachers College, Columbia University, teaching and advising master’s and doctoral students who aspire to serve as school principals and urban superintendents. For 17 years, he was an adjunct instructor at Boston University.<\/p>\n