Welcome to Rudenstine & Associates

Dr. Antonia Rudenstine has been the principal of Rudenstine & Associates since 1997. In this capacity, she has been involved in a number of projects including coaching school directors on a range of instructional issues; training school founders to design mission-driven schools; supporting educational leaders in the creation of improvement and accountability plans; and designing professional development programs for organizational leaders and their staffs.

Dr. Rudenstine began her career as a high school teacher of social studies in Quincy, Massachusetts—a small, urban district where she worked primarily with special education students and English language learners. In the mid-1990’s, she moved to New York City to become one of the founding teachers and administrators of a small, alternative, public high school. More recently, she designed and directed the Building Excellent Schools Fellowship program (the flagship program at the national non-profit, Building Excellent Schools).

Dr. Rudenstine holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from Oberlin College, and a master’s (in Teaching and Curriculum) and doctorate (in Educational Administration) from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Her doctoral dissertation, entitled Building without Blueprints: Administrators’ Efforts to Learn about Teaching and Learning, explored the challenges administrators face when attempting to improve instruction within schools and across districts.

As the Principal of Rudenstine & Associates, Dr. Antonia Rudenstine works both independently and with a group of associates who maintain their own consulting practices. When appropriate, we pool our resources and expertise in order to offer a more comprehensive set of services to our clients.