Nicholas Leonardos is currently the Executive Director of Lowell Community Charter Public School (K-8) in Lowell, MA. He is working in the same building where his great grandmother worked making shoes a century ago. Prior to Lowell he was Principal of the K-8 Maria Baldwin School, in Cambridge; Principal at South School in Stoneham and Principal at Kingston Elementary School in Kingston, MA. Nick started as an administrator at the Boston Renaissance Charter School and started in teaching in Houston, TX, as part of the Teach For America program.