Tony Flach brings a lifetime of experience to improving outcomes for students in schools and districts nationwide. Growing up in his mother’s classroom, he went on to marry another educator, become a teacher, instructional coach, and administrator in Norfolk Public Schools, Virginia. Tony believes quality education is the cornerstone for social equity and is passionate about supporting practices that improve student achievement through data-driven decision-making at all levels. He has worked with clients to launch initiatives and create systems to monitor and refine actions in real time. His experience includes leadership roles in a Broad Prize Award-winning district, work at two educational publishers, and more than twenty years of coaching and consulting. Tony has experienced firsthand the difference that effective teachers, schools, and systems make in a community and believes every school can and should be a place he would want his children to attend.