Jonathan Martin is the Head of St. Gregory College Preparatory School in Tucson, Arizona, and has been an independent school head since 1996.

Jonathan holds degrees from Harvard University (BA); Starr King School for the Ministry (M.Div., Unitarian ministry); and the University of San Francisco School of Education.  Jonathan is a graduate of the Sidwell Friends School, and attended Milton Academy in grades 8 and 9.

He previously headed Saklan Valley School (1999-2008 ) and Maybeck High School (1996-1999).  In the first stage of his career, he taught History, Social Studies, and English at Maybeck, and served in a role equivalent to Dean of Students there.

Jonathan was a Klingenstein Visiting Fellow at Columbia University Teachers College in 2008, where he researched and presented on the topic of how school-leaders can better facilitate curricular and pedagogical innovation by teachers.

During 2008-2009, Jonathan conducted what he called the “good high school project,” and visited 21 21st century high schools, shadowing students for a full school day at eachand live-blogging throughout each visit.   For the “lessons learned” from that project, click here.

In March, 2009, Jonathan was on of three official bloggers for the annual conference of the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS).  For the takeaways from that conference, click here.

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Follow Jonathan on Twitter: @JonathanEMartin.

Much more about and by Jonathan, including a CV, educational philosophy statement, and more than 20 educational topic essays, can be found at his 21k12 sister site, www.21k12.net.