Phyllis A Gimbel Author

Phyllis A. Gimbel currently serves as Coordinator of Project Open, a university-public school collaborative with Boston College, Boston University, Brandeis University, Lesley University, and the Watertown, Massachusetts public schools. She has enjoyed a diverse career in education. She has worked in independent, suburban, and urban settings as a French and Spanish teacher, department chair, middle school principal and consultant, and superintendent intern. She spent her junior year of college in Paris, France and Santander, Spain, studying both at the Sorbonne and at the Universidad Menendez Pelayo. Obtaining a Bachelor of Arts degree in French and Spanish from Hood College, Frederick, Maryland, she later received a Master of Arts in French from Columbia University, New York, New York. After her children were grown, she returned to graduate school and earned a Master of Education degree in 1995 from Harvard University Graduate School of Education. In 2001, she received a Doctorate in Education, specializing in Leadership in Schooling, from the University of Massachusetts Lowell Graduate School of Education.