Ari Gerzon Kessler

Ari Gerzon-Kessler is a sought after national speaker, trainer, and coach working with schools and districts committed to forging stronger school-family partnerships. He is the author of On The Same Team: Bringing Educators & Underrepresented Families Together (Solution Tree), which won the Gold Medal from the Independent Publishers Book Awards for outstanding education book of 2024. Ari had led the Family Partnerships department for the Boulder Valley School District (CO) since 2017. As principal, his school received the Governor’s Distinguished Improvement Award in 2013. Ari’s leadership efforts to strengthen partnerships with underrepresented families and dismantle unjust practices were featured in Education Week in 2015.
Ari regularly presents at national and international conferences on Families and Educators Together (FET) teams and other innovative family partnership best practices. His writings have been featured in educational publications such as Educational Leadership, Principal Magazine, and Edutopia. Ari is a leading expert at the intersection of family engagement, inclusion and belonging practices, SEL for adults, and school transformation.