About the Nationl High School Center
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John R. Nori
John R. Nori serves as Director of Instructional Leadership Resources at the National Association of Secondary School Principals, where he coordinates middle level and high school improvement initiatives. Applying his practitioner's perspective he focuses on the implimentation of the concepts in Breaking Ranks: Changing An American Institution, Breaking Ranks II®: Strategies for Leading High School Reform and Breaking Ranks in the Middle™: Strategies for Leading Middle Level Reform. In addition, he is responsible for the NASSP Resident Practitioner Program that includes principals-in-residence in areas of high need and concern for principals including the areas of: Safe and Orderly Schools, Assessment and Accountability, and School-Business Partnerships. Mr. Nori is currently a member of the National High School Alliance and the Board of Directors of the National Forum to Accelerate Middle Grades Reform.
Mr. Nori began his career in education in 1971 as an English teacher. In 1987 he entered administration as an assistant principal and became principal of Julius West Middle School in 1992. Later he served as Director of Middle Level Instruction for Montgomery County (MD) Public Schools and ended his public education career as principal of Colonel Zadok Magruder High School in Rockville, Maryland. He has been a faculty associate at Johns Hopkins University where he has focused on his lifelong passions—improving classroom instruction and strengthening supervisory skills.
Mr. Nori holds a B.S. in English education from Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania and a M.Ed. in Secondary Education from the University of Maryland. He has been married to Brenda for thirty-five years and has two children: Kristin, a fourth grade teacher, and Tim, a college student.
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