Michael V. McGill

Michael V. McGill, EdD, is director of the Program for District Leadership and Reform at the Bank Street Graduate School of Education in New York City.

He was superintendent of the Scarsdale, NY, public schools from 1998 to 2014. In 2007, the New York State Council of School Superintendents named him Superintendent of the Year, based on his “outstanding all-around leadership.”

He began his career as superintendent in 1973 in the Mt. Greylock District in Williamstown, MA. He also served as headmaster of the Hopkins School in New Haven, CT, and as superintendent of the North Shore Schools in Sea Cliff, NY.

McGill graduated from Williams College and received a master’s degree in teaching and a doctorate in education from Harvard University. He and his wife, Pucci, live in a 260-year-old home in northwest Connecticut.