Rick Cohen is an assistant superintendent of Metuchen School District, principal of Moss School, author, co-founder of SELF-Q LLC, and serves as co-adjunct faculty for Rutgers University. He is former principal of Red Bank Primary School in Red Bank, New Jersey, a Title I school with a majority English learner–student population, where he led collaborative school improvement efforts resulting in dramatic increases in student proficiencies. Prior to Red Bank, Rick was the founding director of a new bilingual school, Colegio Americano, in San Salvador, El Salvador. Rick began his teaching career as a Teach for America corps member in 1996 in Phoenix, Arizona. Rick’s first formal teaching assignment was in juvenile detention centers in Washtenaw County, Michigan as a University of Michigan Project Community service-learning student facilitator.