Dr. Linda F. Nathan

Headmaster, Boston Arts Academy
Boston, Massachusetts

Linda Nathan, Headmaster, holds a Doctorate of Education from Harvard University, a Master's in Education Administration from Antioch University, and a Master's of Performing Arts from Emerson College. She was instrumental in starting Boston's first performing arts middle school; a driving force behind the creation of the city's first middle college high school (Fenway High School); and a co-founder and senior associate of the Center for Collaborative Education-Metro Boston, an education reform organization. From 1995 to 1998, Dr. Nathan served on the National Academy of Science's Commission of the Science of Learning, and was honored in 1990 by Chronicle (Channel 5) as a Massachusetts Teacher of Year. She is currently a guest lecturer at Harvard Graduate School of Education's Arts in Education program and is teaching a course in Building Democratic Schools.

Dr. David E. Sawyer

Superintendent of Tulsa Public Schools
Tulsa, Oklahoma

Dr. Sawyer was most recently the Superintendent of Schools in Brevard County, Florida, and served in that capacity from 1994 until his August 2000 arrival at Tulsa Public Schools.

From 1991-93 he was the Superintendent of the Clovis Unified School District in Clovis, California, and from 1988-91 he was the Superintendent of the Pickens County Public Schools in Easley, South Carolina.

Dr. Sawyer also served as an Assistant Superintendent in the Fairfax County Public Schools in Fairfax, Virginia, holding that post from 1980-88. He was a teacher and department head for the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa from 1976-80.

He received his Bachelor of Science degree from Virginia Polytechnic Institute in 1967, his Master's degree in 1970 from Old Dominion University and his Ed.D. from Texas A & M University in 1972.

Dr. Sawyer and his wife, Joyce, have two grown sons and five grandchildren. He enjoys sailing, woodworking, collecting ceramic mice and learning the five-string banjo in his spare time.