Alisa Berger

Founding Co-Principal

Alisa Berger is currently serving as a founding co-principal at the NYC iSchool, a New York City public high school. Previously, she has worked in the New York City central offices as a Director of Leadership and Organizational Learning , overseeing 250 schools in achieving their goal of increased student achievement by developing, aligning, and delivering cutting edge training and professional development, inclusive of the Children First Intensive (CFI), an action research initiative designed to help build schools’ capacity to use accountability tools to differentiate, individualize, and improve instruction; as well as problem solving around school-based and systemic DOE issues to ensure that they do not interfere with schools’ effective operations. Alisa also served as a facilitator for the SAM (Scaffolded Apprenticeship Model, a Masters program run through Baruch College, City University) program – a comprehensive school reform program based on supporting schools in strengthening their distributive leadership and creating an adaptive environment that is able to continuously improve itself. Alisa began her career in school administration as the founding leader of the Mott Hall II school, a small, progressive NYC public middle school.