SF-CESS provides coaching, technical assistance, and professional development to schools committed to teaching and learning, shared instructional leadership, thoughtful school design and professional development, and caring community connections.
Our mission: to interrupt and transform systemic educational inequities.
Greg Peters, Ed.D.
Dr. Gregory Peters is a school reform leader with a longstanding history working within both local and national efforts. Peters served as Principal of San Francisco’s Leadership High School – a National Demonstration and Mentor School. At LHS, Peters and his teachers were "highly commended" for making progress in closing the racial achievement gap by “…graduating all their students – of every race/ ethnicity – UC/CSU eligible."
In 2005, Gregory established The San Francisco Coalition of Essential Small Schools (SF-CESS), which is committed “to interrupt and transform current and systemic educational inequities to ensure all students have access to personalized, equitable and high performing schools that believe and demonstrate each student can, should and will succeed.”
Gregory’s instructional expertise and leadership in curriculum and school design, data based inquiry, and equity-centered professional development have resulted in a number recognition’s including CES’ “Commitment to Equity Award” and CANEC’s “Innovations in Excellence Award”. Gregory earned his doctorate in Educational Leadership & Social Justice from California State University East Bay in 2012; his dissertation focused on Teacher Transformation.